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May 04, 2013

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1:47 PM | M@h*(pOet)?ica–Mathekphrastic Poetry, Part 2

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. Ekphrastic poetry is my subject once again. Featuring my own stuff again, too, I fear—but [...]

April 06, 2013

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5:04 PM | M@h*(pOet)?ica – Mathekphrastic Poetry

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. Ekphrastic poetry is the subject of my entry this time out. It seems to have [...]

March 09, 2013

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4:50 PM | M@h*(pOet)?ica – Mathematics and Love

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. I know, I shouldda had math and love as my subject last month. But I’ve [...]

February 09, 2013

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8:34 PM | M@h*(pOet)?ica – Karl Kempton

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. ========================= Karl Kempton, whose math-related poems will be the subject of this entry, and I [...]

January 12, 2013

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5:50 PM | M@h*(pOet)?ica—Circles, Part 3

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. ========================= Today’s lesson will start with something of mine that is so elementary I won’t [...]

December 15, 2012

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6:00 PM | M@h*(pOet)?ica – Happy Holidays!

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. ========================= This installment of my blog was supposed to be part two of my series [...]

November 17, 2012

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6:25 PM | M@h*(pOet)?ica—of Pi and the Circle, Part 1

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. ========================= First let me introduce what must be civilization’s very first non-repeating infinite decimal fraction, [...]

October 21, 2012

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2:40 AM | M@h*(pOet)?ica – Scott Helmes

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. ========================= A poem that fully demonstrates the value of a poem’s including mathematics.is Scott Helmes’s [...]

September 22, 2012

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4:35 PM | M@h*(pOet)?ica – Louis Zukofsky’s Integral

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. ========================= Two fun poems to begin with–because after that the going will be tough: calculus, [...]

August 26, 2012

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2:01 AM | M@h*(pOet)?ica: Summerthings

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. ========================= I call the above “Happy Poem.” I have to admit it embarrasses me. It’s [...]

July 28, 2012

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12:07 PM | M@h*(pOet)?ica

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. ========================= Welcome to the first installment of my M@h*(pOet)?ica Blog. I chose its title to give [...]