Liebig is dead; long live Liebig

Twenty five elements are all that's required

to build protoplasmic goo

Yet Liebig, dear Liebig, has most of us wired

To only obsess on a few

While Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Carbon are dandy

There's Sodium spewed forth by Hurricane Sandy

And Copper and Zinc are metabolome candy

With the others arrayed in a queue

So, Geology giveth

Biochemistry limits

Leibig's Law it delimits

(Hey, it's only 5 minutes!)

There's a great talk, right after us, too.