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Chemical Haiku: Elements' Qualities in a Few Syllables
Frr pointed out this interesting approach to the periodic table: Haiku. This might even help you remember the elements.
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I already memorized the Tom Leher song.
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
Come on WTF?
Some of those are not haikus
chemists are retards
Hint: read heliums...
Science and Poems
Merged in novel harmony
But for what purpose?
periodic table
;)
with rhythm of haiku
I remember
ducks
the bitter cocktail
of a colonoscopy --
grin and barium
Element poems
Until Slashdotted link.
I am sad.
"56 Barium
the bitter cocktail
of a colonoscopy --
grin and barium"
lesson for us all:
nerds good at periodic,
bad at humorous.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Are we really that nerdy? Do we actually care about a new way to remember the periodic table? I hope not.
This reminds me of the old discussions between Einstein and Bohr about the nature of Quantum Mechanics:
Einstein: "God does not play dice."
Einstein: "God is not malicious."
Bohr: "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."
When Hydrogen Tech played Oxygen U,
the game had just begun,
when Hydrogen racked up two fast points,
and Oxygen still had none.
Then Oxygen scored a single goal,
and thus it did remain,
at Hydrogen 2 and Oxygen 1,
called because of rain.
Disappointed
Lithium rhyme
not a haiku.
The helium entry reads (formatting theirs):
lighter than dream
flight between worlds
Deja Thoris
serial rescues in
afternoon sun
Haiku is a 5 sylable, 7 sylable, 5 sylable structure. Am I just daffy or does this not even come close?
My
Limekiller
5-7-5 = rigid format which cannot be directly related to original Haiku. Also OK?
Therefore the question has to be, does an attempt to represent the feel of haiku have to follow what are in effect arbitrary rules? I suggest not.
Spirit of haiku != programming language syntax.
In fact, the idea of a short poem based around a single feeling can manifest itself in other ways. I happen to like the limeraiku:
which is a long way from haiku but would never have existed as a form had the haiku not existed.Some of the element "haiku" are mildly amusing, some are thoughful, some belong with the Sweet Singer of Michigan, but the attempt to do something with a form is surely worth doing if only to see if it works. This is a mannered exercise in writing a very short verse on a single subject. Arguing about 5-7-5 or whether it works as a menmonic misses the file system checking point. Extending the Housman Test, I'd suggest that whether or not these verses work AS POETRY depends on:
Enough rant. Back to work.
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
Ebonics version
Table-ized A.I.
Ex Star-Trekkie guy Now he plugs Priceline dot com He gets half-price rates. *bows*
The Human Cow - bringing you scrumtrelescence since 1995
A mosquito was heard to complain
:-|
That a chemist had poisoned his brain
The cause of his sorrow
Was para-dichloro-
diphenyltrichloroethane
Bwahahaha, that's funny, now everybody laugh
Give me an R!
Give me a P!
Give me an I!
What's that spell?
M-I-T Wan-na-be!
(Yes, I was accepted to both schools mentioned, but attended neither, so no sour grapes accusations)
Poetry and science. Gotta love it.
Willy was a Chemist
But Willy is no more
What Willy thought was H2O
Was H2SO4