Then on last night’s World Service Forum neuroscientist Dan Glaser, who works with ballet dancers & acrobats on questions such as the relationship between what we see & our physical movements stressed the importance of discussing the problem with, seeing the relationship from the practitioner’s point of view, designing experiments with those in mind, not just dismissing ideas such as muscle memory because scientists know that muscles don’t have memory.
Hear hear! For too long scientists & science teaching have been too much concentrated on cramming, climbing up the pyramid of the shoulders of giants to absorb Truth as it is known, with no emphasis on the excitement of exploring terra incognita.
And just to put the icing on the cake of this little exploration, the first Google result I got for Michael Welland led me to The Page 99 Test: Michael Welland's "Sand" which is about the long journey of an individual sand grain down a river to the sea – two great finds in one.
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