Eye of Newt, Wing of Bat, Leg of Frog Anne of Cleves, John o' Groats, Hair of Dog Add lemon 'til sour Then stir for an hour Drink down fast, and then run for the bog
I wrote this following my first reading of Watership Down - many moons ago .. Intuition, sixth sense, second sight Thus the panic began before light An atmosphere foreign In their once homely warren Became reason enough for their flight
Infra Red Spectroscopy From messing with quantums we glean That symmetrical modes can't be seen Asymmetrical change Dipole moments derange And a sharp peak's revealed to the keen.
Raman Spectroscopy A laser makes the bonds vibrate Just like infra red does. But wait! With a polarized glow Only symetric modes show Which chemists find a useful traitBecause when both techniques are used on the same sample it can remove the need for dicking around with bond extinction coefficients and make structural analysis a matter of mental ball-and-stick topography. Result!
"Let's go to the ice-cap" he said. "We're British! We can't end up dead!" Well, the ice got a grip So we cut up the ship What we needed by then was a sled.
A question both deep and profound Is whether a circle is round In a paper by Erdös Written in Kurdish A counterexample is found Not mine, this one, of course
Möbius bands A mathematician confided That a Möbius band is one-sided And you get quite a laugh If you cut one in half For it stays in one piece when divided. (Anon)
A mathematician named Klein Thought the Möbius band was divine He said "If you glue The edges of two You get a weird bottle like mine." (Leo Moser)