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Showing posts with label Science Songs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science Songs. Show all posts
The Best of Beaker
Everybody's favourite lab technician covers the classics...
A beautiful rendition of 'Danny Boy':
'Yellow' by Coldplay:
Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy':
A beautiful rendition of 'Danny Boy':
'Yellow' by Coldplay:
Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy':
The Reproduction Song
Click here to listen to the song
Mr. Stuart:The parts of a flower are so constructed that very, very often the wind will cause pollination.If not, then a bee or any other nectar gathering creature can create the same situation.Yes, anything that gets the pollen to the pistils, write it on the list.I'll try to make it crystal-clear: The flower's insatiable passion turns its life into a circus of debauchery!
Mr. Stuart: Now you see just how the stamen gets its lusty dust onto the stigma.
And why this frenzied chlorophyllous orgy starts in spring is no enigma!
We call this quest for satisfaction a what, class?
Sorority girls: A photo-periodic reaction!
Mr. Stuart: Oh, that's good, that's very good.
Hey, I'm lost where are we?
Chapter 2, page 5...
Reproduction, reproduction!Put your pollen tube to work.
Reproduction, reproduction!Make my stamen go berserk.
Reproduction!I don't think they even know what a pistil is!
I got your pistil right here...Where does the pollen go?
Mr. Stuart: Next chapter. In an abstract way, the same thing applies
To the reproductive organs of the more complex life forms.
But now we are dealing with sexual response.
Are there any questions before we begin reading?
Is it possible the female member of some sex on a couch?
Could like get this guy all hot and she never even knew it?
When a warm-blooded mammal in a tight little sweater
Starts pullin' that stuff, is she sayin' that she wants to do it?
Johnny: Can't prove it by me, cause they change their tune
When you got 'em in the back seat.With his heart beatin' fast!
Sorority girls: They make it sound like a track meet, gross!
Yeah, then all they can do is say "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!"
Reproduction, reproduction! Baby, give it to me now.
Reproduction, reproduction! Is that all you think about?
Reproduction! Come on baby show me that you really love me so!
Ohhh, I think I'm gonna throw up!
Where does the pollen go?
Mr. Stuart:The human is the only being capable of consciously controlling its number of offspring.
Any comments on this?
Paulette: Mr. Stuart, is it true that guys like you, you know, mature and all,
Carry some protection with them for sexual occasions?
Johnny: What's the big deal? Can't a girl just do that thing in a book
Where she adds up the days of her, uh, what do you call it, mentalstration?
Oh, that's really neat!
Yeah, and what will the guy say when the numbers don't add up right, huh?
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Reproduction, reproduction! Hope he's proud of what he's done.
Reproduction, reproduction!He was only pokin' fun.
Reproduction! See what happens when a boy and girl
Don't know how to play it safe?
Reproduction, reproduction!
Reproduction, reproduction!
Reproduction, reproduction! Reproduction!
Where does the pollen go?
Mr. Stuart:The parts of a flower are so constructed that very, very often the wind will cause pollination.If not, then a bee or any other nectar gathering creature can create the same situation.Yes, anything that gets the pollen to the pistils, write it on the list.I'll try to make it crystal-clear: The flower's insatiable passion turns its life into a circus of debauchery!
Mr. Stuart: Now you see just how the stamen gets its lusty dust onto the stigma.
And why this frenzied chlorophyllous orgy starts in spring is no enigma!
We call this quest for satisfaction a what, class?
Sorority girls: A photo-periodic reaction!
Mr. Stuart: Oh, that's good, that's very good.
Hey, I'm lost where are we?
Chapter 2, page 5...
Reproduction, reproduction!Put your pollen tube to work.
Reproduction, reproduction!Make my stamen go berserk.
Reproduction!I don't think they even know what a pistil is!
I got your pistil right here...Where does the pollen go?
Mr. Stuart: Next chapter. In an abstract way, the same thing applies
To the reproductive organs of the more complex life forms.
But now we are dealing with sexual response.
Are there any questions before we begin reading?
Is it possible the female member of some sex on a couch?
Could like get this guy all hot and she never even knew it?
When a warm-blooded mammal in a tight little sweater
Starts pullin' that stuff, is she sayin' that she wants to do it?
Johnny: Can't prove it by me, cause they change their tune
When you got 'em in the back seat.With his heart beatin' fast!
Sorority girls: They make it sound like a track meet, gross!
Yeah, then all they can do is say "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!"
Reproduction, reproduction! Baby, give it to me now.
Reproduction, reproduction! Is that all you think about?
Reproduction! Come on baby show me that you really love me so!
Ohhh, I think I'm gonna throw up!
Where does the pollen go?
Mr. Stuart:The human is the only being capable of consciously controlling its number of offspring.
Any comments on this?
Paulette: Mr. Stuart, is it true that guys like you, you know, mature and all,
Carry some protection with them for sexual occasions?
Johnny: What's the big deal? Can't a girl just do that thing in a book
Where she adds up the days of her, uh, what do you call it, mentalstration?
Oh, that's really neat!
Yeah, and what will the guy say when the numbers don't add up right, huh?
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Reproduction, reproduction! Hope he's proud of what he's done.
Reproduction, reproduction!He was only pokin' fun.
Reproduction! See what happens when a boy and girl
Don't know how to play it safe?
Reproduction, reproduction!
Reproduction, reproduction!
Reproduction, reproduction! Reproduction!
Where does the pollen go?
Hip hip hooray.... for DNA
by Peter Weatherall
In every living cell,
There’s a useful tool,
Containing information,
In a molecule.
Chorus:
Hip Hip Hooray for DNA,
It provides the key,
To the plans for making,
Everything in you and me.
A single strand of DNA,
Can alphabetically,
Be sequenced by the letters,
A, C, T and G.
Chorus
The letters can be put into groups of three,
Which go to make a genetic recipe eeeee,
Cells can use this recipe,
Written down in genes,
To decipher how to make,
All of our proteins.
Chorus
Proteins can be used
To make body parts,
Such as lungs and livers,
kidneys and heaaarts.
Chorus
….To the plans for making
Everything in you and me.
Watch the video here
In every living cell,
There’s a useful tool,
Containing information,
In a molecule.
Chorus:
Hip Hip Hooray for DNA,
It provides the key,
To the plans for making,
Everything in you and me.
A single strand of DNA,
Can alphabetically,
Be sequenced by the letters,
A, C, T and G.
Chorus
The letters can be put into groups of three,
Which go to make a genetic recipe eeeee,
Cells can use this recipe,
Written down in genes,
To decipher how to make,
All of our proteins.
Chorus
Proteins can be used
To make body parts,
Such as lungs and livers,
kidneys and heaaarts.
Chorus
….To the plans for making
Everything in you and me.
Watch the video here
Natural decay (The Radioactivity Song)
By Mark Rosengarten.
listen to the song
The nucleus of an atom is filled with lots of stuff,
There's protons and there's neutrons, thats really quite enough,
But sometimes an atom has too much of one of these,
And lets slip out decayed particles, kind of like a sneeze.
Its decay,
Natural decay,
HOORAY!
Its decay,
Natural decay,
HOORAY!
Some nucleii spew out whats looks like helium,
It's an alpha particle, made by uranium,
It's nuclear notation, it is 4,2 He,
And it is really dangerous, causes burns to you and me.
It's decay,
Alpha decay,
HOORAY!
It's decay,
Natural decay,
HOORAY!
Nucleii like C14 give a little, biddy sneeze,
It's a beta particle, an electron if you please,
It can travel fast, but it don't take much to stop,
Turns a neutron to a proton, watch the Geiger counters hop.
It's decay,
Beta decay,
HOORAY!
It's decay,
Natural decay,
HOORAY!
Isotopes of potassium emit a positron,
Its called beta positive, don't know who's side it's on,
A proton becomes a neutron, the mass remains the same,
And that is how the positron plays the nuclear game.
It's decay,
Positron decay,
HOORAY!
It's decay,
Natural decay,
HOORAY!
When a nucleus emits any of these,
It can also give off gamma,
With instability its easy,
It goes at the speed of light, 'cos that's really what it is,
And it has no mass or charge,
Only lead can stop it whiz.
It's decay,
Gives off gamma rays,
HOORAYS!
It's decay,
Natural decay
HOORAY!
listen to the song
The nucleus of an atom is filled with lots of stuff,
There's protons and there's neutrons, thats really quite enough,
But sometimes an atom has too much of one of these,
And lets slip out decayed particles, kind of like a sneeze.
Its decay,
Natural decay,
HOORAY!
Its decay,
Natural decay,
HOORAY!
Some nucleii spew out whats looks like helium,
It's an alpha particle, made by uranium,
It's nuclear notation, it is 4,2 He,
And it is really dangerous, causes burns to you and me.
It's decay,
Alpha decay,
HOORAY!
It's decay,
Natural decay,
HOORAY!
Nucleii like C14 give a little, biddy sneeze,
It's a beta particle, an electron if you please,
It can travel fast, but it don't take much to stop,
Turns a neutron to a proton, watch the Geiger counters hop.
It's decay,
Beta decay,
HOORAY!
It's decay,
Natural decay,
HOORAY!
Isotopes of potassium emit a positron,
Its called beta positive, don't know who's side it's on,
A proton becomes a neutron, the mass remains the same,
And that is how the positron plays the nuclear game.
It's decay,
Positron decay,
HOORAY!
It's decay,
Natural decay,
HOORAY!
When a nucleus emits any of these,
It can also give off gamma,
With instability its easy,
It goes at the speed of light, 'cos that's really what it is,
And it has no mass or charge,
Only lead can stop it whiz.
It's decay,
Gives off gamma rays,
HOORAYS!
It's decay,
Natural decay
HOORAY!
The Elements Song, by Tom Lehrer
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.
My Favorite Science Songs
Try these links to listen to the best science songs on the internet:
Monty Python's Galaxy Song
Tom Lehrer's Elements Song
'Lithium' with sock puppets
Magnetism - Get Perpendicular
The Bloodmobile song by They Might be Giants
The Large Hadron Rap
Why Does the Sun Shine? by They Might be Giants
Radioactivity by Kraftwerk
The Reproduction Rap by Jamie Lee Spears
She blinded me with science featuring Dr. Magnus Pyke
Monty Python's Galaxy Song
Tom Lehrer's Elements Song
'Lithium' with sock puppets
Magnetism - Get Perpendicular
The Bloodmobile song by They Might be Giants
The Large Hadron Rap
Why Does the Sun Shine? by They Might be Giants
Radioactivity by Kraftwerk
The Reproduction Rap by Jamie Lee Spears
She blinded me with science featuring Dr. Magnus Pyke
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