a GOOD science rap!?!?!| Off-Topic Discussion forum |

JoeyM MegaDork
7/9/13 11:46 a.m.

I'm not into rap, but it's pretty clear that he is good at it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=959aWmNsjUs

ROBERT T. GONZALEZ of io9.com said: Science raps have this habit of being forgivably bad, in that this-isn't-really-a-rap-but-we'll-let-it-slide-because-you're-scientists-and-you're-clearly-trying sort of way. But this original piece from Jabari Johnson, a senior at Harlem Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts, needs no such pardon. Johnson's rap, titled "Quest for Joulelry," is the winner of this year's Science Genius Rap B.A.T.T.L.E.S., held last month at Columbia University. The competition is the product of a collaboration between Rap Genius, Columbia math professor and urban science education pioneer Christopher Emdin and Wu Tang Clan's GZA http://io9.com/finally-an-epic-original-science-rap-thats-actually-718124163

novaderrik UberDork
7/9/13 1:22 p.m.

does it explain how magnets work?

JoeyM MegaDork
7/9/13 1:32 p.m.

Nope, but I bet he could explain it to ICP (Insane Cretin Posse)

slefain UltraDork
7/9/13 3:51 p.m.

Wow.

I learned geography thanks to the Animaniacs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc

When I was studying world geography in college I had this song on my MP3 player. For the final our teacher handed us a blank world map and said "label it." I'd heard the song so many times that by then it was easy to just hum along to myself and ace the test.

Keith Tanner GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
7/9/13 4:03 p.m.

My mother used to teach Tourism Geography in a local college - basically, teaching future travel agents what shape the world is, and why you don't want to send someone to Sydney, Nova Scotia when they want to go to Sydney, New South Wales. She used the Animaniacs song in her classes as well.

There's also one for the 50 state capitols.

I've always been a fan of Tom Lehrer's science song: The Elements. I've performed it myself, it's a brain buster.

crankwalk GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
7/9/13 4:18 p.m.

What about that They Might Be Giants song about the sun? That one was cool. Not rap but science.

"Why does the sun shine?" was the name

Keith Tanner GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
7/9/13 5:50 p.m.

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas..." that one's good.

I have at least two songs about entropy. One by the Jivewires and one by Moxy Früvous. Independent Canadian bands are apparently quite concerned about science education.