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Here are all the phsyical science entries from the academic haiku contest.  Please vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.
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C60 islands.
molecules do not like salt;
strange shapes resulting.
“Buckminsterfullerene on KBr studied by High Resolution NC-AFM: Molecular [...]

Okay, folks, let’s get this show on the road!  I’ve sorted the entries for the academic haiku contest into four broad categories to keep this manageable, so after finding a winner in each field, we’ll have a run-off for the overall best haiku of the bunch.*  Polls in this first round will be open through [...]

Thanks for your patience, everyone.  I’ve been overwhelmed, but very pleased, by how many entries I got in the haiku contest–at last count there were 73!  This means that I’m going to have to make a first cut in order for online voting to work at all, I’m afraid.  That’ll take me some time, so [...]

I’ve been really happy with the response to the academic haiku contest.  There are lots of excellent entries so far and part of me would like to keep this going.  Alas, I’m sticking to the plan, so today is your last chance to enter the contest and be in the running for the $10 iTunes [...]

If you had to boil down the message of a book, article, or dissertation, how concise could you be?  Inspired by “The Five Minute Dissertation” and a friend’s comment about rewriting her paper to meet space limitations for a journal, I’m sponsoring a competition for the best haiku poem summarizing original research.  The winner, to [...]