John Pickering • Oct 03, 2017 •
I have been chatting with my mother about the headlines around artificial intelligence and my own venture into the field. In this poem she has picked up beautifully, I think, on the idea is that any problems with AI will be because of our own inadequacies as we train the machines. K.A. Pickering, October 2017 Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Apr 09, 2013 •
Science! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my lab'ring mind. But first with thy resistless light, Disperse those phantoms from my sight, Those mimic shades of thee; The scholiast's learning, sophist's cant, The visionary bigot's … Read More
Michael Edmonds • Sep 25, 2011 •
A New Scientific Revolution In the 17th century Copernicus did start A series of events Dear to my heart His thoughtful publication About heavenly spheres Caused those with rational leanings To prick up their ears As more and more followed And scientific thinking grew The Enlightenment blossomed Human future … Read More
Michael Edmonds • Sep 24, 2011 •
Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing I’m an alternative practitioner, With crystals, potions and pills I promise to cure you Of all of your ills Don’t use proven treatments It puts a dent in my sales And to fully convince you I have many scary tales Of bad men in … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Apr 09, 2011 •
Tim Minchin’s 9-minute beat poem Storm that takes on medical ‘woo’ in an expatriate London dinner-party setting is well-known to many already, but this new cartoon presentation of it, released a few days ago, makes for good weekend viewing. (Credits: Poem written and performed by Tim Minchin. Directed and animated by DC Turner. Produced by Tracy King. Read More
Grant Jacobs • Oct 28, 2010 •
I’d like to write about today’s paper* from the 1000 genomes project, but I have a tax return to file first. In the meantime a quatrain and a haiku: There's no forsaking what you are No existential leap As witnessed here in DNA and code A thousand genomes deep ... We're all mutants you and I, all broken codes for … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Dec 01, 2009 •
The Hippocrates Prize offers £5,000 for the best poem on a medical subject. There’s an international category and an NHS category for UK National Health Services employees. £5,000 is a decent bit o’ cash for a poem, so why not give it go? This prize is offered by the University of Warwick and … Read More