CSIRO is Australia’s national research organisation. But in a new claim to fame, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is also the inspiration for this Backstreet Boys-inspired science song.
Which one of these likely lads is your favourite?
The CSIRO Song was filmed as part of the University of Sydney’s Science Revue, which also included When Semester Ends. We’d be very grateful if someone could tell us where to get this necklace one of the singers is wearing:
[Hat tip: Pharyngula]
Below the fold: Previously on Songs about Science.
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 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
Songs about science XXI: imitation is flattery, right?
Songs about science XXII: Aldrin raps his Rocket Experience
Songs about science XXIII: The Fermilab rap
Songs about science XXIV: Singing Science Records
Songs about science XXV: Meet the elements
Songs about Science XXVI: ‘I don’t mean trousers’