Another helping of science news in seventeen short syllables
Posted 12.26.2008 at 3:06 pm
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SciKu Brain
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Features editor Nicole Dyer is back with another SciKu! It's rhythmic, it's subtle, it's all about science; What more could you ask for from this ancient poetic form?
Blood flow to the brain
Slows as we age. After that?
You won't remember
Check out Nicole's first stab at SciKu, and the fabulous reader SciKu's it inspired (in the comments). Then:
Leave a SciKu here
for all of PopSci dot com
to marvel over
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from piscataway, NJ
In three billion years
Andromeda, Milky Way
A great collision
neuron neuron go
dendrites transfer dopamine
thus your brain can know
I cannot write some
So I sit here and read some
SciKu, I love you.
Science is my life
I still need to learn so much
I'll just keep reading
from St. Catharines, Ontario
Why study so hard,
When its all here,
so i just sit and ponder
^_-?