Girl, it’s time to automate (Open Thread)
2010 September 12
A friend of mine works in a biology lab working on cell motility and breast cancer research, and a while back she shared this amusing piece of marketing:
Biology equipment boy band! And it’s actually a surprisingly catchy tune.
Math also seems to inspire some entertaining music. For example, the “Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)”.
Got any other math and science related videos to share? Or anything else? This is an open thread, so feel free to discuss older threads, threads you’d like to see, links you’d like to share, or whatever else strikes your fancy.
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The PCR song, by Scientists for Better PCR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5yPkxCLads
there’s also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEaX3MiDow for primer synthesis
“CSIRO” from the 2009 Sydney Uni Science Revue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWmivumLLLw
The Math Song by the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is a personal fave of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrpWWMHPVc8
http://www.thickets.net/
Under the category of “something else,” here’s a proof of the undecidability of the halting problem in the style of Dr. Seuss: Scooping the Loop Snooper.
I listen to a lot of heavy metal, and I really like this band Gojira, since they talk about science a lot. Here is a song called “Space Time” which is about looking at the universe and wondering how it all works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHjvNK2g5MA
Production values not brilliant, but good stuff from young women mathmos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8jXW8v_sTY&feature=related
For lots of science-music goodness, there’s the Geek Pop festival and podcast: http://geekpop.podbean.com/festival/
Edit by Terri: fixed the broken link
Tenaya Hurst: http://www.tenayahurst.com/
She does a Geology Cabaret that I have seen, which is also on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ0VBDcg1G8&feature=related
(It’s in 8 parts.)
Fun post. There’s also the Large Hadron Rap .
Edit by Terri: fixed the spelling of Hadron
Not a maths or science vid, I’m afraid, I just wondered if anyone else had seen this event:
http://www.flandersdc.be/view/nl/66467888-Flanders+DC7s+Creativity+Forum.html
It made me pretty angry. The twee, bolded pink gender essentialist header, and then the final sentence “Like with Playboy, we know you must be interested in the inspiring stories” just strikes me as appallingly dismissive. Surely the joke about Playboy’s articles is that it’s an excuse to try and legitimise looking at pornography? So is the event not saying that you can pretend to listen to these women’s presentations while you’re ogling them? (Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with pornography or looking at naked people, but to constantly reduce professional women to sex objects is not on.)
It’s a shame, as the speakers look like they’re going to be really interesting.
ThinkGeek’s women’s shirt sizing is really small. How small is really small? A commenter on my post about the problem noticed that the smallest women’s size is the same size as the 4T size they offer for four year old children. And another commenter noticed that the smallest men’s size t-shirt has the same bust measurement as the largest women’s size, even though women have larger busts than men usually.
Here’s my post about it:
http://vass.dreamwidth.org/1198974.html
Black Public Media Web Producer Project – $20,000 for interactive web series (DUE DATE: SEPTEMBER 27)
“More information can be downloaded here.”
Black Start Up Weekend?
“Gina, who stays incubating ideas, is trying to gauge interest for a black start up competition. She writes about her experience at Start Up Weekend, noting:”
“Head over to the site and take the survey if you’re interested in a Black Start Up weekend.”
Race and Fandom Call for Submissions
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc
(Via Racialicious: Announcements – $20,000 for Black Media Web Projects, Elevator Pitch 2010, Poc In Fandom, Asian American Entrepreneurs)