Posts Tagged ‘rap’

Can’t Nobody Hold NASA Down

alien.jpgEven P. Diddy hasn’t rapped about science. But that didn’t stop NASA from paying a post-grad student named Jonathan Chase to write a hip-hop song for the European edition of its Astrobiology Magazine. NASA wanted Chase to help make astrobiology reach out to the known life in the universe (us!), rather than unknown life in space.

We can’t help but wonder, did NASA really want a scientific hip-hop song so badly that they asked a British guy to rap? Still, on the science end, Chase is far from unqualified: He studied aerospace engineering and science fiction in college, and is currently studying science communication in graduate school. [Clarification: While folks at NASA’s Astrobiology Magazine did invite Chase to contribute the rap, they did not actually pay him for it. In case you were worried about your hard-earned tax dollars going to rhyming limeys.]

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September 25th, 2008 Tags: ,
by Boonsri Dickinson in Physics & Math. ’Nuff Said., Space & Aliens Therefrom | 2 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

Worst (and Best) Science Rap of the Week

rapperQuestion: How do you celebrate the culmination of 14 years of work to build the world’s largest particle accelerator?

Answer: By rapping (and bad dancing.)

Yes, the Large Hadron Collider, that 17-mile ring under the Swiss and French Alps, is fast approaching its official launch date a week from tomorrow. And while scientists have been running tests and warming up its accelerators to prepare for the day, something else has been heating up: an online video of a rap about the LHC, created by Kate McAlpine of Michigan State University.

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September 2nd, 2008 Tags: , ,
by Andrew Moseman in Physics & Math. ’Nuff Said., Space & Aliens Therefrom, Technology Attacks! | 1 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >