研究生英语核心教材课件下 陈锵明主编ISBN 9787811343137Unit 2.pptVIP

Unit 2 Contents 1. About the author Background of the Text: 1). 2). 3. Questions Word Distinctions Oral Translation 1). 2). Written Translation 1). 2). 3). Further questions for discussion About the author Jonah Lehrer is editor at large for Seed magazine. A graduate of Columbia University and a Rhodes scholar, Lehrer has worked in the lab of Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel and in the kitchens of Le Cirque 2000 and Le Bernardin. He has written for the Boston Globe, Nature, NPR, and NOVA ScienceNow, and writes a highly regarded blog, The Frontal Cortex. Jonah Lehrer 1. Background of the Text Science and art naturally overlap. Both are a means of investigation. Both involve ideas, theories, and hypotheses that are tested in places where mind and hand come together—the laboratory and studio. Artists, like scientists, study—materials, people, culture, history, religion, mythology— and learn to transform information into something else. In ancient Greece, the word for art was techne, from which technique and technology are derived—terms that are aptly applied to both scientific and artistic practices. There has long been a connection between art and science, one that can be traced back to the Egyptian pyramids. History proves that the two disciplines cannot exist without each other, enduring in constantly changing and evolving relationships. 1.Questions 1. How do you understand the classical model of art? 2. Why did Bohr think that science needed a new metaphor? 3. Why does the author say that it is hard to believe that a work of abstract art might have actually affected the history of science? 4. Why are scientists openly wondering if we are incapable of figuring out the cosmos? 5. How do you understand Escher’s painting Relativity? What does it expose to us? 2.Questions 6. Why does the author say that the history of physics is littered with metaphorical leaps? 7. W