Scott's Limericks of SCIENCE!

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It is annoying like "Fifty-Two Pickup" And robs you of air like a stick-up It's been part of our niche Since the days we were fish The inconvenience known as the hiccup

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Whether you're beeping like an R2-D2 Or texting your friends with a "me, too" You can thank all your genes Working behind the scenes Especially the Forkhead Box P2

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They could have seen many more Decembers And been Cancer Survivor Club members But no cure have they found, And they're now underground Cause some quack told them water remembers

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Carl Sagan is my fucking GODDAM HERO.

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Rogue Stars Ejected from the Galaxy

Stellar nomads, they are free to roam Thrown out from their Milky Way home With a black hole they tiffed Their departure - quite swift Now they're swelled like a Cadillac Brome

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From sonar in dolphins and bats To eyeballs in lobsters and rats They evolved separately Just like coffee and tea Converging like well-herded cats

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My response is that when Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, [a worm] that’s going to make him blind. And [I ask them], ‘Are you telling me that the God you believe in, who you also say is an all-merciful God, who cares for each one of us individually, are you saying that God created this worm that can live in no other way than in an innocent child’s eyeball? Because that doesn’t seem to me to coincide with a God who’s full of mercy’.

David Attenborough, on why his observation of the natural world has not given him faith in a creator.

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(via intellectualambush)

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A new combination of quarks Has physicists dropping their forks Up, bottom, and strange And a mass in the range Of Lithium. Science, it works!

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How To Stop an Asteroid

A huge space rock is headed our way The impact would turn our skies gray With a gravity tractor Or kinetic impactor Physics might just save the day

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The Banana: Proof of Intelligent Design

The banana was once quite inedible All seedy, with flavor regrettable But with hybridization And human cultivation This fruit has become most incredible

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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams, 1952-2001