Friday, August 23, 2013

Have fun teaching...

These raps are totally, totally awesome. Sadly no visuals, but worth clicking through for the music.

Rockfish Barotrauma



This one comes from Nature staffer Daniel Cressey, who tells Songs about Science: "Skip to 7.00-ish for the rap, but you’ll miss most of the fish hand puppet and the science." Note that apparently the Rockfish puppet is being voiced by famed ichthyologist Milton Love... what a rock star (ha ha).

Monday, August 19, 2013

Liberated Carbon, by Andrew Revkin



I thought I knew who Andrew Revkin was: science journalist extraordinare, author of the "dot Earth" blog for the NY Times. But I didn't know he played guitar. Here's his song, as filmed at the ScienceOnline Climate conference in Washington D.C.