How does haiku relate to particle physics?
find out in this published 3-part haiku chain, titled "HAI-COUNT."
thescikuproject.com/tag/particle/

📕Cover for newly revised manuscript. The title harkens to Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience." Potential publishers and/or agents are invited to inquire. All others, tell me what you think, and if this cover would invite you to judge this volume worthy of investigation.
#Poetry #Book 52 pgs

Using deceptive, highly evolved methods to lure pollinators, often without offering nectar, through sexual mimicry, scent, and visual deception, many orchids, like Ophrys species, mimic the appearance and pheromones of female insects to trigger "pseudocopulation" of male insects with flower parts.

What's next? A Micro-Leviathan?
www.msn.com/en-us/news/i...

Bloody Wars Of Succession To Choose A New Queen
www.livescience.com/animals/mole...

5.5 Million Bees Discovered Living Beneath a New York Cemetery A cemetery hosts millions of vital pollinator bees, showing their ecological importance and the need to preserve their habitats.

Cemeteries Buzzing?
scitechdaily.com/5-5-million-...

SCIENTIFIC TESTAMENT
#sonnet #excerpt
"This doesn't make him an atheist, though.
He's more like an investigative sleuth,
who seldom proclaims things he doesn't know,
since he's a stalwart apostle of truth."

A kigo (季語, "season word") is a word or phrase in traditional #haiku that specifically indicates the season.

Earth Day is coming! April22. How do you plan to show your support?

While popular culture often focuses on the "scary clown" trope, professional clowns operate as artists who provide social commentary, joy, and therapeutic support in places like hospitals, often acting as a bridge between high-stakes realities and human vulnerability.

Coulrophobia is the irrational, intense fear of clowns, affecting 10–12% of adults. Symptoms include panic attacks, rapid heart rate, nausea, and avoidance behavior, often stemming from distorted, unrecognizable facial features (masking) and unpredictable behavior.

Creative Outlet: Many come to clowning from other entertainment backgrounds, such as magic, puppetry, and reality TV, and find it to be a rewarding way to enhance their performances and grift. Some just like the smell of greasepaint or bronzer.

A Therapeutic Escape: Clowning is often described as therapeutic, offering a way for both the performer and the audience to forget their worries and embrace absurdity.

Spreading Joy and Positivity: Many clowns feel a need to act as a positive force, uplifting others, bringing laughter, 🤡particularly to children and those who may be having a "down day" and provide a non-verbal, direct connection with an audience, allowing performers to share "miles of smiles."🤪

"Nothing happens, until something moves." is attributed to #AlbertEinstein. It suggests that ideas and potential remain stagnant without initiating motion or action.

The Insect That Looks Like A Design Error YouTube video by Treasured Tales

It's #pronotum (word of the day) looks like a tiny satellite dish or floating antenna balls.
youtube.com/shorts/1AOx0...
My personal guess is that they resemble a sap-excreting plant, and are therefore guarded by ants.

Clear As Mud #haiku

Scientists Unearth New Species Hidden in Vietnam’s Isolated Karst Landscapes Two new species discovered in Vietnam’s limestone cliffs reveal a hidden world of biodiversity, highlighting the urgent need for conservation.

indiandefencereview.com/new-species-...

Red Queen's Table
#haiku
Painted roses “bloom”
where the gardeners were dismissed.
No one names the change.

Replacing Those Displaced
#haiku #WhiteHouse
Auditions are held
today for Trump's cabinet
in the ballroom tent.

Paradox? Use Quantum Bayesianism
#haiku #quantum
Quantum weirdness gets
dissolved when viewed through the lens
Of QBism.

PASSION'S PLEDGE #sonnet (illustrated by Xonk).

My first villanelle (on superluminal expansion).

I had that dream again

Casa Bola, Sao Paulo, 1974

In which I write some preemptive epitaphs…

open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

Nature Today | Eating orchids to extinction Illegal plant trade is often associated with images of tropical hardwood. But closer to home, European edible orchids are also threatened by unbridled harvest and sale of underground tubers, known as ...

Your orchid collection looks good enough to eat! www.naturetoday.com/intl/en/natu...

This may help.
www.google.com/search?q=Gla...

Iran Allows Ship Loaded With Epstein Files Through Strait of Hormuz Although Iran is charging vessels millions for safe passage through the Strait, “We are sending the Epstein files through free of charge,” they said.

Iran Allows Ship Loaded With Epstein Files Through Strait of Hormuz