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Symphony Of Science – Ode To The Brain

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Once again John Boswell over at Symphony Of Science has crafted an inspiring bit of music-science mashuppery.

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

Boswell uses parts of the extraordinary TED talk given by Jill Bolte-Taylor recounting her personal insights into how the brain functions – as well as footage of V. S. Ramachandran’s TED talk although I preferred his more indepth (and lengthy) Reith lectures on The Emerging Mind.

All good stuff. I give it a nine for the beat, Dick.

Cheers.

P. S. Mmmmm – braaaaains.

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Carl Sagan Old Spice Ad

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

I found this over at the Adafruit Industries blog. I think Carl would have liked it – a lot.

This is, of course, a riff on Sagan’s original discourse The Pale Blue Dot – which never fails to make the hair rise on the back of my neck.

Sagan is also a member (albeit posthumously) of a pretty good garage band of scientific minds who occasionally get together and jam. Ladies and gentlemen – the Symphony Of Science:

Symphony Of Science – #1

Symphony Of Science – The Unbroken Thread

Symphony Of Science – Poetry Of Reality

Cheers.

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Carlin Step

Friday, March 4th, 2011

My friend Fred sent me to Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist blog where I found this great music video mashup of Saint George Carlin. This remix was done by Steve Porter and Eli Wilkie, who have made it available – with a bunch of other stuff – over at Porterhouse Media.

Carlin doesn’t really need to be mashed up – his words are music enough on their own – but it’s always fun to see the brilliant, scathing, clever, insightful curmudgeon doing what he does best: fuck with language.

Cheers.

P. S. Well, this is weird – I was going to attach some links to my previous blog posts about Carlin (I’ve made a few) but they all seem to have disappeared. Please tell me I wasn’t just hallucinating these past few years and that I actually did write stuff about Carlin. But if so – where the fuck did it go?

P. P. S. Anything prior to February 23, 2009 was lost when I fucked up my blog – which explains why earlier links like this: http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/06/23/george-carlin-at-his-best/ take you to my 404 page. But I was sure I’d posted stuff about Carlin since then. I must be losing my mind.

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Insane Clown Posse – Miracles

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Maybe I’m just really fucked in the head today but I think this Insane Clown Posse video is right up there with the Symphony Of Science.

Yo.

P.S. If you enjoyed that you might like this.

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Symphony Of Science – The Poetry Of Reality

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

John Boswell at Symphony Of Science has released another wonderful music video featuring Carl Sagan and 11 other scientific minds celebrating how science changes our point of view of the world and universe we live in – or, as Richard Dawkins croons: “Science is the poetry of reality.”

Well done, Mr. Boswell. Keep ‘em coming.

Cheers.

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Symphony Of Science – The Unbroken Thread

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

I posted other Symphony Of Science music videos here – and you can find them all, four so far, (and the lyrics) at the web site. This one is about biology and is called The Unbroken Thread. It features Carl Sagan, of course, since he’s like the Mick Jagger of this scientific supergroup. We also get to see David Attenborough and Jane Goodall – sing!

Enjoy.

This series of astonishing, inspiring and informative musical pieces are the creations of John Boswell and should be shared with everyone you know – especially your kids.

Cheers.

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