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Thread #161896   Message #3850637
Posted By: DaveRo
15-Apr-17 - 05:08 PM
Thread Name: songs about science
Subject: RE: songs about science
Loudon Wainwright's 1994 is about genetic engineering.

Chris Wood's Turtle Soup is about Darwin. And he wrote a song about geology, looking back from the far future:
When cars and trucks and ships and planes will stain the seams of rock rust red.
Peggy Seeger has a couple if songs about elements:
If you want the bomb, one of your very own-ium
Not the ordinary kind but one made from plutinium...
...and one about an isotope: Polinium 210.

I heard a song by Charlie Dore last week comparing somebody to a neutrino; I think it's on her new CD. Is this a first - a song about a sub-atomic particle?