The CERN Choir performed this song about the quest for the Higgs particle (a quest that, reportedly, has very likely succeeded), using the Flanders and Swann tune from a song originally about “Mud, mud, glorious mud…” and a hippopotamus: (Thanks to investigator James Gillies for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: The Flanders and Swann song:
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Fibonacci songs
The Fibonacci series of numbers (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …) inspired these two songs (and—who knows?—maybe a whole series of others): (Thanks to investigators Cheryl Bain and Thomas Gallucci for bringing these to our attention.)
Tom Lehrer sings of sociology and mathematics
Tom Lehrer, master of many trades, sings here about sociology and mathematics, a mixture that is not always a solution: (HT Vaughn Tan)
For the birds: “Hoe hoe hoe”
While in Japan Professor Yukio Hirose worries about pigeons pooping on statues, in The Netherlands a young man is making a musical stink about the high prices being paid for racing pigeons. He, the young man, expresses himself in this song: His plight is translated, both in language and context, for people outside the Netherlands, […]