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Songs about science XXI: imitation is flattery, right? - June 12, 2009

One can never have too many songs about science, nor can one ever have too many songs about science in the style of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice baby”.

Thanks to the creator of yesterday’s isotope rap, Kate McAlpine the Great Beyond has been alerted to two of the aforementioned specimens.

Welcome to ISS Baby, with the line “NASA’s hot, working things like Cassini/ Projects here are anything but teeny.” Genius, although I’m not sure it is better than the line in Cruise Cruise Baby, by a group of marine biologists, who clearly suffer for their art: “Ocean sickness problems? Yo we’ll solve them/throw up our snacks so the ocean dissolve ‘em.” Nice.

Here goes…

Previously on Songs about Science

Songs about science
Songs of science part II
Songs about science part III: geology
Songs about science part IV: GeekPop08
Songs about science part V: singing scientists
Songs about science part VI: ‘Don’t go messing with our telescope’
Songs about science VII: ‘It’s a long way from Amphioxus’
Songs about pseudo-science
Songs about science part VIII: the astrobiology rap
Songs about science IX: Rollin’ to the Future
Songs about science X: drilling’s killer songs
Songs about science XI: Charlie Darwin
Songs about science XII: Shubin’s song
Songs about science XIII: ‘This stuff is far!’
Songs about Science XIV – Nano vs Fire
Songs about Science XV: You can’t fool the children of evolution
Songs about science XVI: return of the giant isopod
Songs about science XVII: gene regulators mount up
Songs about science XVIII: ‘What up Einstein, you as smart as people think you are.’
Songs about science XIX: back to our roots
Songs about science XX: Isotopes, isotopes, baby

Posted by Katharine Sanderson on June 12, 2009
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These are so much fun. Thanks for sharing. Not exactly a song, just scientists waxing poetic, Lament for a Luminometer: http://promega.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/lament-for-a-luminometer/

Posted by: Michele | June 13, 2009 01:26 PM

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