Astrophysicist Adam Frank of The Constant Fire, a member of our blog network, is starting a new blog, Harmonice Mundi: Cosmos and Culture in Context, with a team of other science experts: journalist K.C. Cole, cosmologist and astrobiologist Marcelo Gleiser, and biologists Ursula Goodenough and Stuart Kauffman.
As Frank explains:

There are those who say science shows us a Universe without meaning. I say that is a tragically narrow perspective. Science shows us a universe full of meaning because we create it, we imagine it, we respond to the world as it reveals itself to us. In that way we create meanings for the Universe and we do so in the ways that are innate to our species—through metaphor, symbol, and narrative.
It is true that science as a discipline needed to mature past the symbolic. The problem came science is only way to express our humanity. The entirety of human culture could not fully leave the realm of meaning behind. It always reappears in our art, our music, our politics, and our longing for a sense of what is sacred in our lived experience. The trick now will be to understand how a human culture saturated with Science can find the proper context for the symbolic, for the deeply felt, character of life that also expresses through Science and the cultures broad contact with Science.
Somehow we must integrate our manifold ways of known without losing our way. The trick now is to set science into its proper context.