Limerick laureate Martin Eiger evaluates a technology news item (“Hitachi Unveils Robot With a Sense of Humour“—AFP): Hitachi’s new robot is shrewd. It tells its own jokes, they conclude. I’m a little bit vexed About what they’ll make next. If it writes its own limericks, I’m screwed.
Tag: limerick
Kevin, the singing biochemistry instructor: Gluconeogenesis
Dr. Kevin Ahern is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State University, US. Dr. Ahern Kevin has created a selection of “Wildly Popular Metabolic Melodies, Verses and Mildly Popular Limericks” Here is an example : a melody entitled ‘Gluconeogenesis’ Also see : Ahern, Kevin. “Song: I’m a Little Mitochondrion […]
The Winning Incompleteness & Unsolvable Halting Limerick
By request from several readers, here’s a reprint (from mini-AIR) of the winning entry for the Incompleteness & Unsolvable Halting Limerick Competition, The competition asked for a limerick to honor the study “What Does the Incompleteness Theorem Add to the Unsolvability of the Halting Problem?” Torkel Franzen, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3988, 2006, p. […]
Guinness bubble/widget followup: limerick
A followup to yesterday’s post about “Beer bubble appreciation in Limerick“: Martin Eiger, the Limerick laureate, points to a Technology Review article about the new Guinness Stout beer bubble study. Tech Review notes that the study authors, who are mathematicians at the University of Limerick, and opens with this headline: “Mathematicians Reinvent The Beer Widget […]