Category: Poetry Month

GRB (inspired by an article on the BBC website) Gamma Ray Burst Great Radiating Blinding Glorious Radiation Boasts Microscopic Particles, Cosmic Proportions I just thought this was a cool term when I read it last week, and saved the link to the article. What caught my attention? I think it was mostly the scientists admitting […]

salicylic acid (suggested by Grant) the willow leaned over the ailing faun and whispered nibble at my bark which heals the man watched as the deer gamboled in the sun and wondered whence came the relief the philosopher drank tea for headache and contemplated the effects of bark and root and leaf the scientist-doctor distilled […]

vibration molecular tag on the lawn through reality the pulse of joy Sound moves through substances, mediums, the way a slinky toy moves when one end is jiggled. Vibrations are caused by many things, and the quality and duration of the sounds depend in great part on what the vibration moves through: metal strings? catgut? […]

Biology (suggested by Katie) green spiny slimy black and gooey aerobic large small and translucent prokaryotic eukaryotic woody and tall in all its forms beautiful exotic amazing

black smoker In the dark, sullen depths of the ocean, the sea where life shouldn’t exist it does: we can see in the thick black water slow moving denizens walking, swimming, easing into form and life again what I breathe poison to them would be what feeds their bodies my mind does not perceive yet […]

REFRACTOMETER light moves through and bounces off what is left over is measured and revealed What is one way you can identify an unknown liquid or reflective surface? Use a refractometer! And of course some research sites to peruse.. Cornell’s explanation on how these devices work Wellesley’s site with how to use this device and […]

mhos (borrowed from Sue’s babble profile) I am the gatekeeper       I let you through and send you on your way depending on my mood       and the state of the road I may let you go quickly or slowly       but you will           […]

success hypothesis: reasonable given current knowledge prediction: if this then that plan: test hypothesis using control and variables, recording data at regular intervals results: data describe predicted outcome conclusion: hypothesis stands up – success! hypothesis: reasonable given current knowledge prediction: if this then that plan: test hypothesis using control and variables, recording data at regular […]

neutrinos (suggested by Sue) vanilla, strawberry, chocolate infant, youth, adult black, gray, white electron, muon, tau smaller than the eye can see faster than the eye can follow lighter than the lightest touch of a butterfly on a flower from the beginnings of the universe the big bang and the little bangs as stars are […]