Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Margaret Owen Ruckert chocolate caramel squares when maths teachers find the answer to becoming interesting, they will follow their instincts instead of Pythagoras nose across to the Technically Food Department and elect a committee…
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Science Poem of the Day: 15 August
Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Margaret Bradstock Eclipse If the eclipse is a total one, the Moon will pass through the umbra, or darkest part of the shadow, in about two hours. The rim of the known moon grew thinner…
Science Poem of the Day: 14 August
Today’s poem is from Law and Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Steve Evans Luminous Fruit Pigs bred with implanted jellyfish genes have noses that glow in the dark Giotto’s lemons had it, but all those fat balls of incandescence that loomed from his painted plate…
Entertained and Enlightened by the Giants (of Medicine)
Last Wednesday, 7 August, saw a great number of us battling the horrendous Melbourne rain and winds to reach the sold out Wheeler Centre. Drawing everyone in was the prospect of listening to Nobel Prize Winner, author and 1997 Australian of the year Prof. Peter Doherty in conversation with Prof. Ian Frazer, himself winner of…
Science Poem of the Day: 13 August
Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Ron Pretty Christmas Concerto Light and clear day and so simple a goal – Robert D Fitzgerald Talking to Paul last evening, forking (with his turkey) stars down in front of me travelling faster than…
Science Poem of the Day: 12 August
Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Carol Jenkins Pollen Down-scale gene lifeboat, wind shifted silt, nose teaser, sneeze bearer, deciduous dust, anther emblem, furtive clinger, protein panicle, bee money, corbicula cruiser twitching yellow, gold-white and red dust I love the mode…
Science Poem of the Day: 11 August
Today’s poem is from Law and Impulse: maths and chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Mark O’Flynn The Allotropes of Tin [For Roy Tasker] From the sublime to the ridiculous there is only one step Napoleon Bonaparte After the retreat from Moscow, 1812 Unbeknowst to him it takes a…
Welcome to National Science Week 2013 from Queensland Chief Scientist, Dr Geoff Garrett AO
We need science. It’s part of our lives – all day, every day and everywhere – in the food we eat, clothes we wear, medicine we ingest, money we spend and devices we use. Science is so deeply entrenched in our lives that many people who use the wonders of science do so without thinking,…
Science Poetry Competition
We’re partnering with Australian Poetry to present the inaugural Australian Poetry Science Poetry Prize. Submissions for the prize opened this morning and will be open until Friday 23 August 2013. The winner will receive an invitation to attend the gala Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra, as well as…
Science Prodigy Jack Andraka in Brisbane for TEDxQUT
Science prodigy Jack Andraka – who developed a pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer early-detection sensor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine when he was just 15 years old – will share his talent and enthusiasm with live audiences in Brisbane on his first trip to Australia. Jack won the Gordon E. Moore Award in…