Popular Science Features Editor Nicole Dyer has an online alter ego: she is the SciKu master of PopSci.com

SciKu Swimming iStockPhoto

Nicole Dyer is back, masterfully merging the ever-popular "Science Confirms the Obvious" series with her favorite new artform, SciKu (an instant cult classic).

Check out her latest brainchild (after the jump), and add your own 17 syllable sciku as a comment; it will live on forever on PopSci.com.

Who would have guessed it
Swim lessons reduce drowning
Eureka! Here’s proof

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4 Comments

Kraez

from stamford , ct

I also heard that school lessons reduce your chances of being a moron.

o.O; i think i may have just confused even myself...

Spaceman1700

from Freedom, NH

Amazing! I say
Brilliant as it may be
What thought it must take

This is a surprise;
he actually took time
to post in haiku.

Spaceman1700

from Freedom, NH

Kindling thoughts
This disclosure of knowledge
What more must man prove?



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