Art and science

I've thought for a long time that there are more links between art and science than is typically admitted. For instance, author Harlan Ellison once said something like, "The overriding message or all art, whether it's books, or movies, or comics, is, 'Pay attention.'" Similarly, Neil Gaiman said of writing his fiction, "One of the great things is that you get to tell people really cool things that they didn't know before."

Either of them could have been talking about science.

Since money has been on my mind with this grant proposal, I found this story about the cost of being musician surprisingly resonant.