Scaiku!

 What are scaiku?                           Why, science-themed haiku, of course. 

I ran across these at Scientific American. The "brain children" of illustrator Kalliopi Monoyios, some of these scaiku are absolutely wonderful. 

You can choose any topic on which to write haiku, (just google haiku and see what I mean!) and there is no shortage of instruction on how to do so. You can choose traditional or any number of new variations. To paraphrase what a friend once said about the game "Othello," 

"They take minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master."

~ Oh. Just a small FYI. Much of the fun haiku we see today would actually fall into the category of senryu, which tend to  make light of human nature. ~

Here are a couple of Scaiku samples:

This one time at lab
we dropped acid and then we
had to clean it up

                              - Public Communication for Researchers, @PCRcmu

“Eureka!” I shout,
Every now and again, just
to keep up morale

                                                                      - Public Communication for Researchers, @PCRcmu