Singing Science

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)."

Sounds like the next..

[ciroknight]

Bill Nye the Science Guy backup singer/songwriter.

It really works too unfortunately,

[technoextreme]

I can't get this dam song out of my head about snells. Signing n sub 1 sin theta sub 1 signing n sub 2 sin theta sub 2. Gosh darn it. I don't even remember the entire sign only the dam formula. Anway, here is a website from which I found the songs.
http:http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/ >
Ps. I just had one of those I have no life epathanies.

Nice try..

[saskboy]

Nice try, but the Rolling Stones have been promoting Geology's Rock Cycle for decades now.

Re:So, how long until he's sued?

[tomhudson]

Hey, Valente, notw that you're retired, go back in your hole. You know damn well that educational use/performance by a teacher in front of his students is specifically exempt from it in the copyright act, as part of "fair use."

Physics Rap

[FuzzyDaddy]

At Berkeley, there was a professor who used to start out his graduate condensed matter class with a rap about the subject. All I remember is "If it's 1-D you desire, use lithography to make a real fine wire..."

I think he got tired of it after a few semesters, but it was fun while it lasted.

No one beats

[oever]

The Hawkman [mchawking.com]

My favourite learning song

[jurt1235]

My favourite for learning to count in bin:

1100011 bottles of beer on the wall, 1100011 bottles of beer.
Take one down and pass it around, 1100010 bottles of beer on the wall.
1100010 bottles of beer on the wall, 1100010 bottles of beer.
Take one down and pass it around, 1100001 bottles of beer on the wall.
etc etc etc

Cheerleading in Calculus

[Brataccas]

I'll never forget my calc techer in college and his mnemonic for memorizing the sin and cos for the summation of two angles:
sin(x+y) = sin(x)cos(y)+cos(x)sin(y)
cos(x+y) = cos(x)cos(y)-sin(x)sin(y)

You have to imagine a VERY large, balding, ex-marine jumping up and down in front of the blackboard squealing at the top of his voice in his best cheerleader impression:
Sin!
Cos!
Cos!
Sin!
Cos! Cos!
Sin! Sign! Sin!

It doesn't translate as well in text but in was absolutely hilarious and somewhat frightening...