They Might Be Giants: Science is Real - a music video

Via my Daily on Twitter >>> Michael Banks (Twitter) >>> Rocking the physics message (physicsworld.com) >>> They Might Be Giants (ParticleMen, YouTube).

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The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)

I love this video. Please watch it.



From the YouTube page:

The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It features 12 scientists and science enthusiasts, including Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Carolyn Porco, and PZ Myers, promoting science through words of wisdom.

Hat tip: Pere Estupinya.

Additional links:
- Symphony of Science, "a musical project headed by John Boswell designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form."
- Symphony of Science - The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science), with Spanish subtitles (con subtítulos en castellano)

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Relaxing at the microscope

A video from YouTube (Microorganism Spacial Journey) showing microscopic images of microbes and other tiny beasts, accompanied by a very relaxing music.

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Make Love (and Proteins), Not War

"Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular Level" is an educational film directed in 1971 by Robert Alan Weiss. It seems that the movie has been viewed by generations of science students in the United States. Now, thanks to the internet, we all can enjoy. The film starts with a three-minute introduction by Professor Paul Berg (who later shared half of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the team of Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger). The screen then fills with a bunch of people dancing, singing and having fun... and making proteins. Ribosomal subunits, initiation or elongation factors, messenger or transfer RNAs, are impersonated by dancers in colored costumes.

Music sound track: "Protein Jive Sutra".

Yes, this is a true "molecular happening"!



The video is available for download from the web of Kenyon College (MP4 format, 38 MB, a lengthy download).

Or watch the video again at YouTube.

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Microbiology Open House

Just for fun, a short video (3:20) by Timothy Leung (TGokou2001). Enjoy images and music!

(Video URL: Microbiology Open House)

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Small World

This is a beautiful collection of video clips and stills of microscopic pond life (length 8:48), by Jon Grove. Combined with Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata as soundtrack, it's just stunning!

(Video URL: SmallWorld)

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