“The shuttlecock soars upward In a parabola of whiteness, Turns, And sinks to a perfect arc.” This extract, from one of the few eminent poems to prominently feature shuttlecocks, is by Amy Lawrence Lowell, (Men, Women and Ghosts, A Roxbury Garden,1916) and is quoted in the latest research regarding the aerodynamics of shuttlecocks. A study by […]
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Horton Sees a Pluto
Meg Muckenhoupt wrote a poem about Pluto: Horton Sees a Pluto [AIR 15:5] On a hot night in August, while strolling in Prague, Horton the elephant peered through the fog. With his portable telescope tied on a string He looked at the heavens and spotted… a thing! So Horton stopped walking and stared at the spot. […]