Going Gaga for science

Is the community of scientists who make parodies of Lady Gaga music videos large enough to devote an advice column to them? Carin Bondar (of the Scientific American blog PsiVid) thinks so. In her post on “Gaga-Sci”, she offers the following advice: make sure your new jargon-laced lyrics are understandable; beware of terrible lab lighting and supplement it or avoid it when possible; film from a bunch of angles for the sake of variety; and, above all, “tell a story.”