Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Tiktalik

The Indoorfins sing about the ‘fishapod’ fossil that bridges sea-dwelling and land-dwelling animals. It was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania’s reading project on Neil Shubin’s book Your Inner Fish.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Monday, September 15, 2008

Rollin' to the future

Richard Alley of Penn State, aka The Singing Climatologists, sings “a musical review about the problem of scarce resources”.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Monday, January 14, 2008

Dark Matter

Jonny Berliner on that elusive stuff

http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science//item/geek_pop_music_jonny_berliner

Increase the N

UBC song extolling the practice of higher numbers in experiments...

http://www.scq.ubc.ca/increase-the-n/

Mandelbrot set

A soft-rock classic tribute to Mandelbrot, by Jonathan Coulton.

Scientists for better PCR

Live-Aid-style parody advertisement for PCR (thingy used to clone DNA).

Top lyric: PCR, when you need to find the daddy - ooo who's your daddy...

Hotel Mauna Kea

'Hotel California' parody, by astromoners working at Hawaii's Mauna Kea telecsope.