Sep 11, 2008 15:10
Most people who aren't scientists don't find the discipline very exciting. To remedy this, some have suggested that scientists should tap into people's emotional well through art. Here is one example.
ODE TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS
Oh staphylococci
Tiny things
So vulnerable and sweet
Infecting many humans
For you they are just meat.
Biologists attack you
With evolution’s zeal
“We’ll wipe them out
With bacticides”
Darwin’s children squeal.
Forgetting their own principles
Of adaptation’s glory
They soon create
The Super Bug
For humans,
End of story