Sunday, December 22, 2019

122219d


A couple of years ago, Mary Soon Lee published a wonderful book of elemental haiku. This reminded me that, about 20 years ago, I had participated in a crowd-sourced set of elemental haiku. I finally found it again, and here it is, for your chemical enjoyment:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050625075933/http://www.iscifistory.com:80/scifaku/elements/periodichaiku.asp

My father wrote the entry for uranium. I am pretty sure he is the one who told me about this project. 

And from Adele Gardner:

Putting things all in one place for my own benefit...
Here's the NPR listen... [2005 story about the original project]
here's Mary's book

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