by Len Fisher | 20 Jan 2017 | IgNobel Prize, Stray Thoughts
I am stimulated to write this post by the news that the “celebrated American poet Joseph Charles McKenzie” has composed a poem to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration. The poem contains the immortal lines “With purpose and strength he came down from his tower To... 
by Len Fisher | 23 Feb 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman ploughed his own furrow. In his second volume of autobiography What Do You Care What Other People Think? he revealed that he sometimes thought, not just in terms of equations or pictures or models, but in poetry,... by Len Fisher | 2 Jun 2004 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
I even received the attention of poets. One of their poems has even appeared in an anthology. My favourite, though, was this one from a member of London’s Garrick Club, with the immortal couplet: “Some men delight in tits and bums, But I’m absorbed by biscuit crumbs”...