Where Science Meets Poetry

Caveat:  it may strike the reader from what follows that I have an agendist stance against modern poetry.  I have no quarrel with that assessment.


Quite obviously, science meets poetry in the field of linguistics.  But what if scientists could embrace poetry?  What if a paper in, say, oceanography, were rendered in the media as poetry?  Would the public more readily grasp the core concepts?

As moontide drags her weary way
through ocean, sea, and gulf, and bay ...

I think you see my drift¹.

Boring Science Produces Awesome results


The simple scientific observation that you can't use the same energy twice is absolutely awesome!

This is a further article in my occasional series about coal, engines and energy, heat and thermodynamics.


What is 'hot'; what is 'heat'?

Marc Morano - Global Superhero

In one of the most philanthropic gestures ever from a mere political journo-lobbyist, Marc Morano has taken upon his own shoulders the entire burden of global climate change.

Marc_Morano does not think global warming is anything to worry about.  He is utterly convinced that it is the greatest scam in history, a fraud, a pack of lies, etc. etc.

Pegasus - A Load Of Horse Feathers?


Evolution proceeds by producing variants of a life-form which may, or may not, thrive in their current environment.  An interesting question arises: "In an alternate history of Earth, could horses have evolved feathers?"


Image source: Wikimedia, public domain.