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The Guild of Scientific Troubadours
Just happened across a really cool concept: the Guild of Scientific Troubadours. The basic premise is that you write songs which spread scientific knowledge on a person-to-person level, just like medieval troubadours would do with epic romances. And you’re supposed to write and record one song a month in order to “stay in the guild.” Oh, and also, they will post relevant songs by “guild members” to their site. See their URL for more details. Cool idea! (Very similar, incidentally, to my intentions behind the Big Elk Mountain Association - except without the science focus…)
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May 4th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
there’s a pretty awesome They Might Be Giants song along these lines:
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
Yo ho, it’s hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on Earth there’d be no life
Without the light it gives
We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There’d be no you and me
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
The sun is hot
It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.
The sun is large
If the sun were hollow, a million Earths could fit inside. And yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.
The sun is far away
About 93 million miles away, and that’s why it looks so small.
And even when it’s out of sight
The sun shines night and day
The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun’s
Atomic energy
Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
May 7th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Cool! Heck, I learnt my chemical elements from Tom Lehrer…