Can we learn about physics from Jackson Pollock? What about the other way around? A recent paper in the scientific journal Physics Today by Andrzej Herczyński, Claude Cernuschi, and L. Mahadevan makes the case for both.The authors use Pollock's paintings as the data for their inquiry into fluid motion, noting in particular the spiral patterns in "Untitled 1948-49" (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1982.147.27) that were produced not by the painter's hand, but by a particular property of his viscous paint.More... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/09/scientific-paper-on-physi_n_890851.html)