There is big excitement in lab today--my very talented labmate Jake has won the Division of Medical Sciences graduate student science haiku contest!!! Here is his burrito winning entry:
Green lasers on high
Shining to illuminate
Synechococcus!
It's definitely haiku day over here, so share your science haikus in the comments for maximum fun!
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Just a quickie reminder that we're looking for haikus on organisms, for a phylogeny project going on at the SCQ.
As a Director of a science teaching facility, who sees maybe close to 2000 high schoolers in my lab each year, I'm hoping we can have a good showing in this great DonorsChoose challenge that Janet set up.
From Jim Gibbon:
A big thank you for the folks who contributed to our little portion of that wonder of a wonder, the scienceblogs.com DonorsChoose challenge. The SCQ also recieved a number of stellar Haiku's which will be used in the Haiku Phylogeny project.
Congratulations
May your burrito award
Not induce foul gas
Passionate Fury
like wind thru woods; musical note.
Craig-Venter-on-a-boat.
A for effort.
Erasmus Darwin's 1794 Zoonomia preface
--Go On, Old friend! explore with eagle eye,
Where wrapt in night retiring causes lie,
Trace their flight bands, their secrets haunt betray
And give new wonders to the beam of day;
Till link by link, with step aspiring trod,
You climb from Nature to the throne of god.
-- So Saw the Patriach with admiring eyes,
From earth to heaven a golden ladder rise;
Involv'd in clouds the mystic scale ascends,
And brutes and angels crowd the distant ends.
While Synethic biology stands, America shall stand;
When Synthetic biology falls, America shall fall;
When America falls - the world.
(replace synthetic biology with coliseum, america with rome. lord byron)
Cascade
"proud water beads
laugh down two slopes
-foolish space, steep entropy"