Chemical Prophet and Chaos Poetry
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010A couple of weeks ago I was rambling on about the Secret Life of Chaos documentary. I then wrote a Folding Mirror poem inspired by the poem, including what I could remember about the theories espoused.
New Folding Mirror Poem
Thanks to Claire Knight by the way, who has created three new Folding Mirror poems that will be on the fmpoetry site in the near future. The first, about being housebound in the snow is on the site now. Perhaps fittingly, at least for the first half of the poem, the snow is falling heavily at the moment.
Prophet of the Chemistry Periodic Table
Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, who presented The Secret Life of Chaos, has a three part documentary about how the science of chemistry evolved.
I had no idea about chemistry before watching it, but a lot of it has interest, and it is amazing and enthralling to see the dangerous lengths some scientists went to in their research.
Yesterday’s programme, The Order of the Elements, described how Dmitri Mendeleev literally dreamt up the order of elements for the periodic table, which was a massive breakthrough in the field.
So don’t feel guilty about sleeping!