Martyn Poliakoff (of the University of Nottingham) and his hair star in this epic video could be named “The Periodic Table is Etched onto One of Martyn Poliakoff’s Hairs”:
Tag: chemistry
Gilbert and Sullivan (and Cambridge, Condensed-Matter Physics, and The Elements)
Tom Lehrer once proclaimed, as part of the song “Clementine,” that songs from Gilbert and Sullivan (especially when it comes to a “rousing finale”) were “full of words and music and signifying nothing.” Of course, Gilbert and Sullivan often provide a great foundation to write a parody, as Tom Lehrer himself demonstrated in “The Elements” (and […]
Stirring rendition of “Shake It Off”, by Cornell chemists
Chemists at Cornell University concocted this video tribute to both (1) chemistry and (2) Taylor Swift’s music video “Shake It Off”: Here’s Taylor Swift: (Thanks to investigator Michelle Kearns for bringing this to our attention.)
For gummy bear chem/physics enthusiasts
Gummy bears figure prominently in two recent studies: “Drying Gummy Bears Reduce Anti-Matter Lifetime,” Christoph Hugenschmidt und Hubert Ceeh. (Thanks to Jan Kuriplach for bringing this to our attention.) The authors are at Technische Universität München, Germany. They write: “The exotic atom consisting of an electron and its antiparticle, the positron, is a bound state called positronium. Such positronium atoms […]