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Eva Amsen, a prominent science communicator/outreach person, has launched a quarterly science-music newsletter. You can sign up for it at her website, EasternBlot.net, and/or follow her music-science Twitter account, @musisci. Tom McFadden, whom SingAboutScience has interviewed, has just launched a … Continue reading →

• MoMath Song Contest 2015. “The only rules are that the lyrics must be original and must be about math or a mathematical concept.” Deadline: October 9. • Andover [MN] math assignment turns numbers into music [from StarTribune.com]. “Last school … Continue reading →

• From moths to music: Life for PhD biologists isn’t all science (Montana Kaimin) [Keaton Wilson] is a member of The Whizpops, a children’s band that focuses on elementary education and science curriculum as the basis of their lyrics. One … Continue reading →

• Colleague Katie Davis just presented our science music video study at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). This spawned a press release from the University of Washington and a report from local public radio affiliate … Continue reading →

• And the Winner for Best Science Parody is… (BioTechniques) James Clarke of King’s College London is this year’s Lab Grammy champion for his video “The Tale of a Post Doc”! • Singer Charlotte Church says physics rocks her universe … Continue reading →

I’ve had a busy summer of teaching and research — hence the lack of new material at SingAboutScience.org. To start the catch-up process, here are links to a few recent STEM/music articles and posts. • Finally: An epic, original science … Continue reading →

• Planning Meeting July 26-28, 2013 Hosted by the Symbiosis Art-Science Alliance at Warren Wilson College. (Hat tip to Jeremy Fox of Dynamic Ecology.) • Teaching Kids Science A LinkedIn.com discussion group hosted by the Banana Slug String Band! Music-related … Continue reading →

Thanks to colleagues Steve Korn and Becca Price for some of these! • 5 Famous Songs That Prove Musicians Don’t Understand Science (cracked.com). The supposed offenders: “Promise of a New Day” by Paula Abdul, “Perfect” by Hedley, “This Kiss” by … Continue reading →

• Haverford Professor Sings Basics of Physics (Philadelphia Inquirer). The print version of this article said, “In what may not be his most important contribution to the study of physics, the 53- (See Physics on B8)” and then, after the … Continue reading →