Improbable limerick challenge

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05 Limerick Challenge: Impact of Plates on Countries

This month's RESEARCH LIMERICK challenge — Devise a pleasing limerick that encapsulates this study:

"What Is the Impact of Tectonic Plate Movement on Country Size? A Long-Term Forecast," by Kamil Maciuk, Michal Apollo, Anita Kukulska-Kozieł, and Paulina Lewińska, Remote Sensing, vol. 13, no. 23, 2021. (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) <https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13234872> The authors report:


"The Earth's surface is under permanent alteration with the area of some nations growing or shrinking due to natural or man-made processes, for example sea level change. Here, based on the NUVEL 1A model, we forecast (in 10, 25, and 50 years) the changes in area for countries that are located on the border of the major tectonic plates....

The largest increases in area are for Mexico and Djibouti. Both these countries, after ten years, will increase their area by 13,000 and 9000 m2, respectively. After half a century, their area will increase by 65,000 and 45,000 m2. India, Nepal, and the USA are among the countries that will lose the most area due to plate movement. After just ten years, they will lose 575,000, 390,000, and 210,000 m2, respectively. In 50 years, they will decrease in area by almost 3 km2, 2 km2, and more than 1 km2, respectively."

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PLATES & COUNTRIES LIMERICK COMPETITION

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06 Uses of Urine / Wheat Testing Winner

The judges have chosen a winner in last month's Competition, which asked for a limerick to explain this study:

"Nutrient Recovery from Human Urine Using Pretreated Zeolite and Struvite Precipitation in Combination with Freezing‐Thawing and Plant Availability Tests on Common Wheat," Zsófia Ganrot, Andreas Slivka, and Göran Dave, CLEAN–Soil, Air, Water, vol. 36, no. 1, 2008, pp. 45-52. <https://doi.org/10.1002/clen.200700074>. The authors report:

Winning limerickicist ALLISON BROWN writes:

If you freeze some wee you will see
Wee crystals will form from the pee.
The crystals that form
Are not quite the norm.
They concentrate nutrients free.

This month's take from our LIMERICK LAUREATE, MARTIN EIGER:

We couldn't extract it before,
But there's nutrient richness galore.
Read this paper. Then you
Will know what to do.
Step one is to urinate more.

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Plates & Countries Testing Winner:
The judges have chosen a winner in last month's Competition, which asked for a limerick to explain this study:

"What Is the Impact of Tectonic Plate Movement on Country Size? A Long-Term Forecast," by Kamil Maciuk, Michal Apollo, Anita Kukulska-Kozieł, and Paulina Lewińska, Remote Sensing, vol. 13, no. 23, 2021. (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) <https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13234872>

Winning limerickicist WILLIAM PECK writes:

Good real estate moguls all know
The continents ebb as they flow.
Build near a volcano,
It is a no-braino.
More houses! Although they might glow.

This month's take from our LIMERICK LAUREATE, MARTIN EIGER: (I swear the "media" wrote this one)

Covid infects every cell.
Global warming turns earth into hell.
Earth's surface keeps shifting
As plates keep on drifting.
My yard's getting smaller as well.

Now Im mad... creative:

The Agenda thinks it's swell.
False information makes a smell.
As the lies keep shifting
­ The Earths crust be rifting
My patience is worn thinner than a veil.



took less than 3 minutes & not submitted LOL
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