The songs of David Newman

David Newman has just sent me an email letting me know about his own blog about science music, featuring his own cool songs... not this David Newman; I believe this one is a teacher.

Here are a few highlights!

My favourite: Spineless, the Invertebrate song



Periodic Table Symbols Song
(move over Swedish chef)

These Are The Elements

Erosion (A Love Song for Soil)

and more!

I wanna be an entomologist

I'm sure her dream will come true :)

I Am A Paleobotanist

Rap (audio only) featuring Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science:
http://www.myspace.com/ratfishbrothers/music/songs/i-am-a-paleobotanist-61456035

Thanks to Alex Witze for this one!

Whatcha gonna do with all that poo

The dangers of nitrogen and phosphorous pollution and a proposed solution. Will you become a vegetarian too?



Singer Cadamole has two other ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osWuWjbeO-Y&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oax3cUFsBSw&feature=relmfu

Hat tip to James Elser for this one!

Rotate your owl

Wonderful use of (apparently real) stock science footage. Top marks.

Biology 101

A little hard to follow... good musical value though. By Dr Octagon featuring Chewbucca Uncircumsized, apparently.

Key lyric: Can science achieve a unified theory of complex systems?
Good question.

Baba Brinkman's evolution rap

Not just a song, but the story behind it too. The first ever peer-reviewed hip hop rap.

Giant Isopods Ate My Well-Known Brand of Corn Chip

More of a cult classic than a classic! Giant woodbugs... mmmm... yummy.



There is an album of 17 songs on this topic (really).

Hard n' Firm, Trace Elements

*WARNING* This country song uses some very colourful language indeed. Not suitable for kids!

Cambrian Explosion

Complete with trilobite t-shirt. Lovely. By John Palmer, of the Brighter Lights, Thicker Glasses band. They must be Canadian.

Mitosis in a winter wonderland

Actually useful for teachers. Thanks, whoever you are.

Ode to the brain

A sampling remix extravaganza.



(Symphony of Science has done a tonne of these. Yay autotune)

The nucleus I like best

Greg Crowther makes plenty o' songs in his spare time.

Great white shark

If I was a Great White Shark, I Wouldn't Bite You, by Andy Brandy Casagrande IV.

GENEtics

Jonathan Chase, aka Oort Kuiper.

Rapper Tom McFadden

Derrick Davis and Tom McFadden rap on Regulatin' Genes.



By the same people:
I Just Wanna Function
I'm going going back back to plasma membrane
Wanna be a... Scholar?
Hi, Meiosis

Biorad G.T.C.A.

YMCA parody ad by the company BioRad...

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.

Charlie (Darwin)

Chumbawamba on Darwin's theory of evolution.

Astrobiology rap

By Oort Kuiper, aka Jonathan Chase, on alien life.