Education For A Song….
Recently—there’s been a lot of talk about the Large Hadron Collider—and what it may or may not do..
There seem to be two main story lines.
- It’ll help us understand the big bang
- It’ll blow up the planet.
In past posts, we’ve talked about both.
But EXACTLY WHAT are those folks trying to do?
Well— the answer comes from Katie McAlpine.
The 23-year -old a science writer is working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland on a one-year journalism position at the facility..
Her job is to write articles explaining different aspects of the Collider project.
At one point—she put it into terms ANYONE can understand.
She wrote a rap video explaining what it does.
(And yes it’s captioned so you can understand ALL the scientific terms !)
She’s not the first to use music to explain science.
Back in the 60’s Tom Lehrer wrote a series of satirical political songs that predated the style of comedian Mark Russell.
He recorded several albums and appeared frequently singing his own works on the program That Was The Week That Was (The program was known as TW3 to the more hip at the time)
A mathematician by training— Lehrer’s work poked fun at many of society’s ills..
But he also wrote a pretty funny song about the periodic table of the elements .
Back in high school—my 10th grade Chemistry teacher offered extra credit to anyone who could memorize the entire periodic table.
Being the smartass that I am—I showed up after class one day singing Tom Lehrer’s song.
I got the extra credit—but my chemistry teacher got his revenge.
I was forced to perform the song in front of the ENTIRE class in order to receive FULL credit for my deed..
—Steve
Link to the video and the story Steve covered today on NBC-17
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