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fierce competition
on wings and chitinous legs:
hexapod haiku!
The winners of the NCSU insect blog Hexapod Haiku Challenge have been announced. Here's the best in show:
Major, Undeclared
Silverfish, tell me,
Darwin and Dostoevsky,
do they taste the same?
-Martha Love
Gastonia, NC
Ha! I love it.
Bob read this and sent me some even better stuff:
Completely in verse:
Joseph F. Bunnett and Francis J. Kearley (1971). Comparative mobility of halogens in reactions of dihalobenzenes with potassium amide in ammonia (pdf). Journal of Organic Chemistry 36(1): 184 - 186; DOI: 10.1021/jo00800a036
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