This week’s theme is suggested by one of my G+ people. Science is a marvelous human enterprise that has given us endless wonders and incredible advances. It’s also inspired some pretty spiffy songs!
Here’s one of the first and best science songs I ever heard:
There you are, my darlings! Share your favorites, whether they be old friends or new discoveries (hint: if you can’t think of a science-themed song, just type “Science song” in the search bar on YouTube, and a whole world of awesome science music will unfold. You should definitely go explore – FOR SCIENCE!).
An oldie, but still lots of fun — It’s a Long Way From Amphioxus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0egWbwErRQ
History of the song:
http://evolution.gs.washington.edu/amphioxus/
Large Hadron Rap by alpinekat
Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)
A cute little love song
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg
I’m so excited about this Saturday Song theme! Though you’ve already showcased the best science song :)
I’m going to take the liberty of making several offerings. First, a composition from Symphony of Science, which autotunes Carl Sagan etc. clips into some surprisingly catchy tunes.
Relatedly, this beautiful choral suite based on Cosmos.
I am a sucker for song parodies, and this one puns on an organism I used to study (and is super catchy; I can’t hear the original lyrics to this song any more).
And finally, as someone whose science career began with a childhood dinosaur obsession (a not unusual condition, I’m told), I have to include the Jurassic Park theme music. I think I might’ve picked this for a previous Saturday Song. But come on, it’s amazing!
Flanders & Swann sing about the laws of thermodynamics!
“The first. Law. of thermodynamics.”
Okay,love this one!
I’m going to start with Monty Python’s ‘Galaxy’ song :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2JU4gX6rg8
Awesome if now slightly outdated.
Then note the mushroom song :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H15Po5vHiDs
and then if I could please suggest just one more when it comes to what science has done for us and how its still fighting for people’s lives against willful ignorance :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xw0Ob5bqs
‘The Vaccine Song’ -so catchy and so true.
Also this ambiguous song :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vkj-t1ytzo
Probably necessary and one hell of an achievement.
And one hell of a thing to do to a dog.
Every time I watch this, something gets in my eye .. Good dog, Laika, good dog.
Our robotic surrogates :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDUFX9FuH20
I cannot resist linking this here. Science at its best – adventuring, learning, awe-ing us.
I immediately thought of this but only because it has “science” in the title.
https://youtu.be/-FIMvSp01C8
I wish somebody would tell me how to just post the link instead of the whole video. Everybody here seems to know how to do it but me.
Movablebooklady, I just put in the URL and it does its thing. What I don’t understand how to do is post a video?
movablebooklady
Try:
(a href=”[insert link here”)[text](/a)
replacing ( with in both cases for each (if that makes any sense).
If you want to post the naked link, I think having text after it will keep it from embedding, but since I don’t know if it will work, I will experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk like this.
Ooh, the pointy bracket is invisible!
This part:
should be:
… because that makes everything more clear. Also, there is a missing closing square bracket for [insert link here] (so replace all that, incl. the square brackets, with your link, with all the https and colons in front, just as you replace the entire [text] box with the text you want showing up).
I hope this is at all helpful. :P
Tim Minchin’s Storm. Science vs woo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U with text after.