Visiopoetics

Artwork is oils on 30″ x 40″ stretched canvas.

Astrophysicists recently discovered that the universe is approximately 30 times more run down than previously believed.

Seeing as how I am a lowly graduate student buried under deadlines and approximately a foot of snow, I could’ve told you that. Astophysics award, please.

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The Lupus Foundation of Virginia Charlottesville chapter’s regular monthly meeting (previously scheduled for this Saturday) is canceled on accounta Snowmageddon.

We will meet next on the first Saturday of NEXT month - March 6 - at the Gordon Avenue Library at 12-noon. I will reiterate this next month.

In general, these meetings are where you come for tea, and stay to discuss local/regional/larger rheumatology resources, problems, and solutions. Please contact me if you need to discuss some such issue before then.

Autoimmunity affects more Americans than heart disease or cancer, and coordination of resources critical. That’s why these meetings are open to all people who suffer from or are otherwise affected by any autoimmune disorder. (Spouses, friends, and family are welcome!) We are your community resource for information, support, and did I mention the free tea.

Artwork is acrylics on 16″ x 20″ stretched canvas.

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LEONARDO

Leonardo da Vinci’s resume, revealed.

Artwork is oils and mucho mixed media on 12″ x 24″ stretched canvas.

Money can’t buy you — oh, never mind. Do enjoy this Guardian poetry workshop on commodification if you can (ahem) spare the precious time.

From the marvelous mini-Annals of Improbable Research (”mini-AIR”), January edition:

2010-01-09 Mad Honey Sex Poet

The judges have chosen a winner in the Mad Honey Sex Limerick
Competition, which asked for a limerick to honor the study “Mad
Honey Sex: Therapeutic Misadventures From an Ancient Biological
Weapon,” Ahmet Demircan, et al., Annals of Emergency Medicine,
2009. http://bit.ly/7OgfWn

The winner is INVESTIGATOR LESLIE ROSENBLOOD, who wrote:

Alternative “doctors” use honey
To part middle aged men from their money.
“It’s not poison,” they say,
“You’ll have sex every day!”
As though fainting and barfing were funny.

Here’s the offering from LIMERICK LAUREATE MARTIN EIGER:

It wasn’t for love or for money,
I had me some badass mad honey.
The sex was fantastic,
Orgasmic and spastic.
The symptoms thereafter? Not funny.

The judges note that the honey/money/funny troika figured in more
than half the submitted entries. See some of the runners-up at
http://improbable.com/2010/01/21/mad-honey-runners-up.

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2010-01-10 Four-Horodecki Entanglement Competition

Quantum entanglement and four Horodeckis inspire this month’s
limerick competition. To enter, compose an original limerick that
illuminates the nature of this report (suggested by investigators
David F. Austin and David Pendlebury):

“Quantum Entanglement,” Ryszard Horodecki, Pawel Horodecki,
Michal Horodecki and Karol Horodecki, Reviews of Modern Physics,
vol. 81, no. 2, 2009, pp. 865-942. http://bit.ly/4ENWEo The
authors, at the University of Gdansk, Poland, report:

“All our former experience with application of quantum theory
seems to say that what is predicted by quantum formalism must
occur in the laboratory…. However, it appears that this new
resource is complex and difficult to detect…. The basic role of
entanglement witnesses in detection of entanglement is
emphasized.”

RULES: Please make sure that: (1) your rhymes actually do; and
(2) your poem is in classic, trills-off-the-tongue limerick form.

PRIZE: The winning poet will receive (if we manage to send it to
the correct address) a free, perhaps entangled, high-res PDF
issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. Send entries (one
entry per entrant) to:

FOUR-HORODECKI ENTANGLEMENT LIMERICK COMPETITION
c/o marca AT chem2.harvard.edu

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