17 MAY 2012 by ideonexus Sarcastic Science
A poem about science arguing we need to go to the stars, but it has made it so we must leave Earth. I wonder if Frost is referring to extinction as the way to go?
Folksonomies: science,poetry,antiscience
24 APR 2012 by ideonexus “Faith” is a fine invention
But microscopes are prudent.
Folksonomies: poetry
17 MAR 2012 by ideonexus The Universe Holds no Obligations
The fact of our existence does not mean the Universe owes us anything.
Folksonomies: poetry,meaning
28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Age of New Inventions
Lord Byron marvels at the scientific wonders of his age.
Folksonomies: poetry,invention
28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus What opposite discoveries we have seen!
From science, bombs and immunizations, guillotines and life-saving surgery. A poem by Lord Byron.
Folksonomies: poetry
28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Newton, Adam, and the Apple
A poem by Lord Byron.
Folksonomies: science,poetry
18 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Descriptions of the Atom are Poetry
A quote from Niels Bohr on the impossibility of describing this object accurately.
Folksonomies: metaphor,physics,atom,poetry
17 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Ascent of Man in Poem Form
From apes with freed hands to muddled-thinking man in caves, up to clearer-thinking man with fire. A very nice passage about evolution.
Folksonomies: poetry,evolution
02 JAN 2012 by ideonexus You Are Speeding Around the Sun
"Brightest world of many a one," ... prescient words from Shelley.
Folksonomies: poetry,prescient
02 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Davy Poem Using Laws of Conservation and Thermodynamics
A poem found in Humphry Davy Works.
Folksonomies: science,poetry