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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me if you'd like to use any of the poems. Email: geoverse@hotmail.co.ukThanks:
With thanks to my sources of inspiration: my wife and her Open University books; Horsham Geological Field Club, its speakers and field trips; my son for sharing his internet space; and, er, well, life, really.
Tag Archives: Science
Phlogiston
How a mouse helped to solve a mystery Continue reading
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Tagged Mice, Oxygen, Phlogiston, Priestley, Joseph, Science, Stahl, Georg
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When QUANTUM comes to call
Tell it to go away! Continue reading
Assertions
There’s one that’s true. Continue reading
Nothing
There’s much ado about it . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Mystery, Nothing, Science, Shakespeare (William), Wilde (Oscar)
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Unnecessary ologies
In a book* about research in teaching there’s a sentence which made the eyes of a certain teacher glaze over: “Ontological assumptions will give rise to epistemological assumptions, which have methodological implications for the choice of particular data-collection techniques”. We … Continue reading
Noddle models
Brains evolved (and survived) by making mental models, not by understanding reality – whatever that is. Continue reading
Funny
Three ways of being “funny” . . . Continue reading
Science
Is that what’s in the Science Museum? Continue reading
Paradigm lost
You can stretch an interpretation of the evidence just so far . . . Continue reading
Causes
It’s good to know what you don’t know Continue reading
Much ado about nothing
A vacuous poem Continue reading
The Owl, the Pussy-cat and the telescope
An astronomical nursery rhyme Continue reading
Making sense of the Universe
But not yet. . . Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Science, Universe
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Professor Peter’s particle
A massive mystery at CERN Continue reading
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Tagged CERN, Gravity, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Mass, Physics, Science
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It’s good to doubt a dogma
I think, therefore I doubt Continue reading
On the end of the world being nigh
Scientists become prophets Continue reading
I wonder
A celestial put-down Continue reading
Definitions
If they’re no good, or absent, they tell you something worth knowing Continue reading
Science and religion
It’s a mystery Continue reading
In theory
A Theory of Everything isn’t everything… Continue reading