Happy Music Monday! On this day in 1633, Galileo recanted his heresy. What's more scientific than admitting your theory was wrong, eh? Scott's gathered five great songs about science. After he's done, see if you can reproduce his results in the comments. Then he'll get tenure maybe!
Despite the name, this lovely song is about director Nicolas Roeg, not Einstein. Still, it doesn't get more scientific than E=MC2. That's like the "just do it" of science.
More after the jump. See if you can predict what they are from the data you've already collected.
This song was the theme to a movie about making a human being using a 3D printer... sort of. Like science, this song is beloved of nerds worldwide.
Beastie Boys - Sounds Of Science
The slow march from a gentle rhythm to an in-your-face beat is one of the best things the Beasties ever did from one of their greatest albums. And they did all this before people were using computer software!
Art is a science unto itself, you know. Not the kind of wild throwing crayons at the moon art, but the art that takes years of focus and study and rework after rework to find a deeper truth within. Laurie Anderson has never been afraid to go somewhere that nobody's been before and take some notes. Maybe that's why she has a fondness for the ideas of science herself.
Tom Verlaine - The Scientist Writes A Letter
Science has always been considered a place with no emotion, where men in white coats shape reality. Of course, that couldn't be further from the truth. Even the great Galileo, having been forced to recant, still whispered "and yet it moves" beneath his breath. Today his middle finger remains in the Vatican as a relic. How's THAT for an emotion?
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