Singing Science 129
udderly writes "
Wired is running a story about a University of Washington biology lecturer,
Greg Crowther, who sings lectures. From the article: 'Crowther bursts
into song to the melody of Sugar Sugar, the bubble-gum '60s tune - "Glucose,
ah sugar sugar / You are my favorite fuel from the
bloodborne substrate pool / Glucose -- monosaccharide sugar -- you're sweeter
than a woman's kiss / 'cause I need you for glycolysis."' In
college I used many different types of devices to help memorize information like
this. Crowther has a page
where you can download samples. Among my favorites are
The Krebs Cycle and Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain)."
Re:Samples (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.science-groove.org/Now/ [science-groove.org]
and here's the link I extracted the mp3's from:
http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs
The second link is his own webpage at uwash while the first is a compilation of his cd records.
Re:Mother of God (Score:4, Informative)
Heck, I've written songs about Polyethylene terephthalate and patch panels... they are things I work with and like. I also write and sing songs about corsets and myths and the SCA. Pretty much anything that somebody likes or is into, if they are a musician, gets written about. I have lyrics about the tetramanganese cluster in Photosystem II because my fiance worked with it.
It's not "nerdy", it's simply people singing about what they do, work and play with. Pretty much the same as all the songs about the railroad, playing baseball or about steelworkers, only these happen to be written by people in the sciences. If you're riding on a railroad, you write "City of New Orleans". If you're working with NMR spec, you write a song about spectroscopy.
--
Evan
Thermodynamics song by Flanders and Swann (Score:2, Informative)
"The First Law of Thermodymamics:
Heat is work and work is heat"
"The Second Law of Thermodymamics:
Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body"
Re:So, how long until he's sued? (Score:1, Informative)
If charges are ever brought against you, you must be guilty of something. If you object to the authorities entering or searching your vehicle, your home, or your physical self, you must be guilty of something.
So,since we already know that you are guilty of something, and you are running from the Pole-eese, then it is likely you deserve to have your fleeing ass shot, after all a bullet is much cheaper than a trial and incarceration, and since you were running, that is as good as a confession that you are guilty of something.
Guess the only thing left to do is learn to duck when your running, and for pete's sake, stay away from the pole-eese.
Re:The trouble with this sort of learning. (Score:2, Informative)
He got the idea from Happy Days? (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/themesonglyrics.html [sitcomsonline.com]
(scroll down to "Pump Your Blood")
Re:Cheerleading in Calculus (Score:2, Informative)
ObPotsie (Score:3, Informative)
Pump, pump, pumps your Blood.
The right atrium's where the process begins, where the CO2 Blood enters the heart.
Through the tricuspid valve, to the right ventricle, the pulmonary artery, and lungs.
Once inside the lungs, it dumps its carbon dioxide and picks up its oxygen supply.
Then it's back to the heart through the pulmonary vein, through the atrium and left ventricle.
Pump, pump, pumps your Blood.
"PUMP YOUR BLOOD" SONG - VERSE TWO
Pump, pump, pumps your Blood.
The aortic valve's, where the Blood leaves the heart, then it's channeled to the rest of the bod.
The arteries, arterioles, and capillaries too bring the oxygenated Blood to the cells.
The tissues and the cells trade off waste and CO2, which is carried through the venules and the veins
Through the larger vena cava to the atrium and lungs, and we're back to where we started in the heart.
Pump, pump, pumps your Blood