Daily Science Haiku - Open Hand

Make prosthetic hand
using open source design and
a 3D printer.

Father makes open source prosthetic hand for his son

Daily Science Haiku - Kepler 78b

Earthlike in size, mass,
and density, but too hot.
Goldilocks it ain't.

Kepler 78b

Bonus haiku!

Right now, influence
the future of humanity.
Tweet #humansinspace.

Help decide the future of human spaceflight, only on  Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Daily Science Haiku - Life at the Speed of Light

A 3D printer
for the genome? Download your
flu vaccine today.

Life at the Speed of Light

Daily Science Haiku - Time Travel

Note: I actually wrote this yesterday, but I've been sick for nearly a week now, and I just plain forgot to hit "Publish." Apologies, Jenise

Spinning universe?
Infinite cylinder spins?
Wormholes? Nah. Just live.

3 Simple and 3 Complicated Ways to Time Travel

Weekend Science Sonnet - NSA Protests

Haikus are nice and easy to write, the verse equivalent of popcorn. But I'm finding myself frustrated by the short form, occasionally wanting to write more on a subject. So I thought that on weekends, when I nominally have more time, I might write a longer piece, such as a sonnet.

So here's the first installment, inspired by the NSA protests this weekend.
 

In 1984, a painting screwed

to the wall neatly hid a two-way screen.

Today, all screens are two-way. Our accrued

lives, socialized, blogged, twittered, seen

anywhere the Internet can reach.

Our phones calls monitored, our email tracked,

our texts and likes and posts and selfies each

become a datum warehoused, numbered – hacked?

Security backdoors give access to

devices, gateways to identity,

for our protection, we're told. False is true.

The Fourth Amendment balks security.

Probable cause? With every word we say,

we become suspects to the NSA.

Daily Science Haiku - Asteroid 2013 TV135

Higher odds today
can become no chance, depends
on trajectory.

Why is the chance of an asteroid impact in 2032 going up? [Don't panic.]