"Have you seen--has any one--how the eighteen-pounders run?-- / Thistle-down against his robes."

"The Detection of Shocked CO Emission from G333.6-0.2," a conference paper presented in verse. (via lost)

I wrote my abstract, sent it in,
With words that don’t offend.
Imagine my horror to find that I
Am scheduled at the end.

Let me say, to be last speaker,
There are very few things worse.
And so this talk, to get revenge,
Will be entirely in verse.

One suggested solution to how to understand Schrodinger's cat: explicitly include nonlocality. Which is to say, entangle the cat's state and the decaying atom's state. As the paper's author notes, this has been attempted before. (via)

Mysterious fence+tower constructions found in the Amazon rainforst. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "The Ride of Nostradamus," Walter Thornbury.