• Marshall science students make video to raise awareness. “Dancing monkeys and singing scientists have taken over a lab in the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center. A group of Marshall students created a music video to help raise awareness of the importance of federal funding of the sciences.”
• Ingenious Nature. Baba Brinkman’s Off-Broadway show, a rap-filled exploration of the science of mating, premieres on November 23rd.
• A Hip Hop Experiment. The New York Times reports on an educational collaboration between professor Christopher Emdin of Columbia University and rapper GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.
• Geology Porn: The Science and Art of Bjork’s “Mutual Core” Music Video. Scientific American tells us, “In some scenes, Bjork appears to spit magma from her mouth. In reality she was spitting out a mixture of ketchup and cake batter, which was later modified to look like red-hot lava.”
• Monty Python’s Eric Idle Rewrites Galaxy Song With Professor Brian Cox. “Monty Python star Eric Idle wrote the original ‘The Galaxy Song’ for the 1983 Monty Python Meaning of Life movie but got the physics in the lyrics totally wrong. He asked Brian to correct them and the new version is premiering during Brian’s talks in Melbourne and Sydney.”