20111226

Start with Boxing Day and it's relevant in well under 6 degrees

In Bohemia
Europe's largest sandstone cave.
With no big caverns.
News story

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20111223

They were on every continent

Sauropods down South.
There were Antarctic forests.
Now, just the penguins.

News story

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20111221

A hum is preferable to a boom

Proliferation.
Bombs instead of energy.
Good bye Kim Jong-il.
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20111219

They look like better faux icicles

LED lighting.
Bluer than incandescent;
impressing the cold.
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20111216

alt first line: It's in our urine

It's the "light bearer".
Phosphorus: it's in our genes
and also weapons.
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20111214

Why don't we celebrate e day?

Pi is not normal.
Well, maybe but not likely.
So irrational.
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20111212

A gale either way

Santa Ana winds
are not adiabatic.
But feel like Chinooks.
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20111209

Get your head into the clouds!

Intolerable.
The canonical atom
drawn completely wrong.
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20111208

20111207

Chicago River gets a goiter on St. Patrick's day

Fluorescein quenching.
Potassium Iodide.
Kosher salt stays bright.

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20111205

A surprising holiday, USA

Repeal Day today.
Rotten food sugared, distilled.
To tax revenue.
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So, what does Bigfoot eat?

Yeti crabs grow food.
Harvesting bacteria
from their own "hairy" flesh.
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 And, cool.

20111204

A Biff Tannen line?

"Nice acting, Einstein".
Mistaken sarcastic phrase
to Walter Matthau.


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20111018

'uo' to 'oo' and still slippery

Fluoropolymers.
Floors waxed up to a high sheen.
egg pans to dance floors.


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(tenuous, yet creative: teflon to Teflon Don to Gambino crime family to Mob vs. FBI story)

Newton is adequate.

Bernoulli made a
principle to explain flows.
Not how airplanes fly.


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Sulfuric acid, peroxide, tiny teeth

Piranha cleans up
by oxidizing resist
or eating whole cows.


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20110921

Not absolutely grammatikal

Instantaneous
sure sounds a lot like instant
but with extra sounds.


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20110919

So, what's our longitude?

Equation of Time.
High noon drifts from side to side.
Seasons on sundials.

See also (cool)


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Buzz mutates to Bczz

Fruit fly DNA
easy to get and mutate.
Ever see The Fly?


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20110829

I feel like taking a chance

Toxoplasmosis
might cause schizophrenia.
And cat poop stinks too.


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20110826

blow AND wash away...

Hurricane Irene,
You come to our coast, our beach,
and blow away plans.


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Cockroaches throwing twinkies...

Einstein: "World War Four
will be fought with sticks and stones."
I say: If we are lucky.


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20110825

I'm sure George Romero has heard them all

Undead universe
creeping along in the bulk
softly moaning, "branes..."


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Between the meso- and the nano-

Inkjet printheads to
lab-on-a-chip devices.
Microfluidics.


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I got nothin'.  Really. I cannot remember a single book I've read centered on microfluidic technologies. Maybe if you scale it up and consider hamsters a liquid? Oh, then this:



20110805

The "ayes" have it!

To a physicist
a horse is just a big sphere.
Biologists: "neigh"

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...and not a drop to drink

Water becomes scarce.
Desalinization, eh?
Sad to rely on.

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20110803

NASA STS RIP

No more space shuttles
A sad change for those with dreams
of floating in black


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