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Poetry
Dust to dust
From the LabLit science verse series
Maia Jarvis 12 October 2017
Poetry
Zero
Musings about nothing
Richard P. Grant 1 May 2017
Poetry
Evanescence
From the LabLit science verse series
Peter Roberts 26 March 2017
Poetry
Grasshoppers
From the LabLit science verse series
Lavinia Kumar 3 November 2014
Poetry
The graphene conundrum
From the LabLit science verse series
Lavinia Kumar 4 August 2014
Poetry
Potholing in the earthen night
From the LabLit science verse series
John Flicker 26 April 2014
Poetry
Erudite lessons from cosmology
From the LabLit science verse series
John Flicker 20 February 2014
Poetry
Your tasklist for a limestone road cut east of Emporia on Old Highway 50
From the LabLit science verse series
Dan Paquette 6 May 2013
Poetry
Null set
From the LabLit science verse series
Laura Eleanor Holloway 5 January 2013
Poetry
Survivor's Guide to the Baktun-13 Bug
From the LabLit science verse series
Robert Dawson 21 December 2012
Poetry
Muon
From the LabLit science verse series
Lavinia Kumar 21 October 2012
Poetry
The transfinite cardinals
From the LabLit science verse series
Peter Roberts 7 October 2012
Poetry
Square one
From the LabLit science verse series
Steve Caplan 30 April 2012
Poetry
SMOUND
From the LabLit science verse series
Sara Sutter 15 April 2012
Poetry
Five neuro poems
From the LabLit science verse series
A.N. Hegde 18 December 2011
Poetry
Collaborators
From the LabLit science verse series
Robert Dawson 16 October 2011
Poetry
A statistical lament (after Joni Mitchell)
From the LabLit science verse series
Robert Dawson 6 February 2011
Poetry
A game of statues
From the LabLit science verse series
Peter Roberts 17 October 2010
Poetry
Haze of meaning
From the LabLit science verse series
Peter Roberts 15 August 2010
Poetry
Awake
From the LabLit science verse series
Maggie Crow 6 June 2010
Poetry
Entropy
From the LabLit science verse series
Carolyn Yates 26 October 2009
Poetry
Black holes
From the LabLit science verse series
Mike Berger 17 May 2009
Poetry
Comets
From the LabLit science verse series
rpg 15 February 2009
Poetry
Signs of life
Excerpt from the NASA ROCKS collection
John Thomas Clark 26 October 2008
Poetry
Morning
From the LabLit science verse series
rpg 21 September 2008
Poetry
Brinkmanship
Excerpt from the NASA ROCKS collection
John Thomas Clark 14 September 2008
Poetry
Paean to mathematics
From the LabLit science verse series
Peter Roberts 24 August 2008
Poetry
A Top 40 Hit
Excerpt from the NASA ROCKS collection
John Thomas Clark 10 August 2008
Poetry
Spiritus Sancti
From the LabLit science verse series
Derek Adams 4 May 2008
Poetry
Escape velocity
From the LabLit science verse series
rpg 20 April 2008
Poetry
Atom
From the LabLit science verse series
Lloyd Graham 24 February 2008
Poetry
O
From the LabLit science verse series
Lloyd Graham 13 January 2008
Poetry
Cell-mates
From the LabLit science poetry series
Lloyd Graham 9 December 2007
Poetry
Half of me
An excerpt from Looking Up
Anne Osbourn 27 May 2007
Poetry
Sentimental imaging
From the LabLit science poetry series
Rivka Isaacson 13 May 2007
Poetry
Beginnings
Anne Osbourn 1 January 2007
Poetry
Spinning
Anne Osbourn 10 September 2006
Poetry
Illusions
Anne Osbourn 22 July 2006
Poetry
Power
Jo Bell 24 June 2006
Poetry
Threads
Anne Osbourn 11 June 2006

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  Jenny from LabLit interviews Billy Bragg for Nature news
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