Life.
Science.

Inference
Haiku 25

I mean, who’s to say?
Judging by what I see here,
I can only guess.

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Those of you who came of age in the 70s, like I did, may remember the grand display of commitment and righteousness around converting to the metric system. Some road signs were changed, some speedometers altered.

“Quick, teach the kids to count by 10s!” said school administrators everywhere.
“Um, ok,” said the teachers, and we all rolled our eyes and counted by tens and said easy peasy lemon squeezy.

But then, somehow, this right and simple thing became anti-American, and before math class could be dismissed we’d opted for the Imperial System for life, God Save the Queen, etc. etc.

Sigh.

Measurement
Haiku 24

The metric system
makes a perfect kind of sense
that the crown undoes

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Classification
Haiku 23

Sorting this from that
without prejudice or rank –
blindfold your bias

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We’re shifting gears, friends.
We wrapped up geology yesterday and we’re on to the scientific process.

Here are the week’s prompts, in case you’re playing along:
22 – Observation
23 – Classification
24 – Measurement
25 – Inference
26 – Prediction
27 – Experimentation
28 – Interpretation

Here we go….

Observation
Haiku 22

Me watching myself
as if in a Petri dish
of growth medium