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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Music And Genius
This week's show brought us some new science-y songs by none other than They Might Be Giants, who have released an album called Here Comes Science, which is filled to the brim with fantastic, toe-tapping, hummable, sing-a-long-able songs... all about science! They have made me very happy.
We also had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. He was full of enthusiasm for science and our space-faring nation, but I'm not saying any more. You will have to hear it for yourself.
Stories covered on the show included: a new fertility method outsmarts mitochondrial disease in monkeys, people get too close for comfort for a reason, how sunspots drive two earthly reactions, fishy feelings embody more than just their bodies and could help robots dominate, and little mice are driven by natural selection.
Music on the show was by Unbalanced Wheel, They Might Be Giants, and The Gifted Apes.
Listen to it all here.
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