And now Wired has published a collection of six-word Drabbles (nanodrabble?) inspired by a Hemingway short ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") Some examples:
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time - Alan Moore
Osama’s time machine: President Gore concerned. - Charles Stross
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. - Orson Scott Card
Let's have them - eight-word pieces of science communication. In the comments. Here's mine: Evolution: because some inherited mistakes turn out OK.
9 comments:
Why science? The unexamined life's not worth living.
(With apologies to Socrates)
Brains: Both weirder, and simpler, than you think.
Risk - impossible to avoid completely.
DNA, it's not like a sodding barcode.
Oh hang on, needs to be exactly 8, not just 8 or less? Scratch some of them. I'll think of some more.
Horror story...
"Can't feel my feet!"
"They're not yours now."
DNA - it's not a blueprint. It's a cookbook!
(Apologies to Richard Dawkins and Rod Serling)
Here's my trilogy on why chemical bonding is like relationships.
Vol I: Swapping needs, holes filled, no strings, passing ships.
Vol II: Sharing things makes stronger bonds, but seldom forever.
Vol III: The free radical threatens existing bonds, watch out!
Coda: Not everyone likes homo-bonding, but it's certainly creative.
Soph, that's verging on the Primo Levi. Or possibly the Edwin Morgan.
"Blood = Devonian seawater; we = spacesuits for fish."
Why thank you Alec. It does suggest that I'm rather more cynical than even I think, doesn't it?
But it does often strike me that people are like atoms.
Hence the phrase "nuclear family". Ah ha ha ha.
Yeah, potential source of great power, work in mysterious and invisible ways and they are apt to blow up catastrophically without warning.
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