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The songs of Science!

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I was just reading this article from the BBC News website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8430362.stm

The official choir of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (better known by its French acronym Cern) is to record a song dedicated to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The LHC is the vast physics experiment built in a 27km-long underground tunnel, which runs in a circle under the French-Swiss border.

The ditty has been set to the tune of the Hippopotamus song by Flanders and Swann and its chorus celebrates the Higgs boson - a sub-atomic particle that the LHC is designed to detect:

"Higgs, glorious Higgs," the tune goes, "the theory told them these thingamijigs, were so fundamental."

But this isn't Cern's first ode to particle physics. Staff members once wrote a rap song that was praised for its scientific accuracy - if little else.

"You see particles flying, in jets they spray. But you notice there ain't nothin', goin' the other way," they rap.

"You say: 'My law has just been violated - it don't make sense! There's gotta be another particle to make this balance'."
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I remember the LHC rap, by Katherine "alpinekat" McAlpine, a CERN employee:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM[/yt]

:bolian:

However, the article also goes on to mention other songs about science, involving different branches of science including molecular biology, palaeontology, and (somehow I must have missed this the first time around :lol:) this collaboration between Buzz Aldrin and (among others) Snoop Dogg:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xNBsueJ4wY[/yt]

:guffaw: Brilliant. (and here's the Making Of featurette: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COkreR0g6Fw)

Any other great songs out there about Science and Technology?
 
This is still my all-time favourite. I even memorised the lyrics in my final year at university:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55u-cpSlBOo[/yt]
 
"A Glorious Dawn" - Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc[/yt]

"Pi" by Hard 'n Phirm

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDu351QNoZE[/yt]

And of course, a shout-out needs to go to the songs that ended every episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy. :D :techman:

(At about 3:00 in this clip)

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_vyDFW0TVU&feature=related[/yt]
 
Somebody I knew a long time ago wrote a beautiful song about Valentina Tereshkova.

I wrote a song about Comet Hale-Bopp. :p
 
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