Ready to fly into space? You've done all the training and put on your space suit. You take the lift up to the top of your rocket. If this was a building, your capsule would be on about the thirtieth floor…
The word was first used in 1919, but we have been using "biotechnology" for thousands of years. When eating a delicious cheese sandwich, you can thank biotechnology for the pleasure!
This nonsense poem was written by Dr. W. H. Williams for a faculty club dinner on the eve of the physicist Eddington's departure from Berkeley in 1924.