Re: [FRIAM] jellyfish songs

2012-12-08 Thread Arlo Barnes
I finally got around to closing some tabs, so I had enough memory to load
the flash to watch the video. The singing and guitar playing was pretty
good, even if all I had to go on to understand the lyrics was the
translation (I will send it to my Japanese/English bilingual cousins), so I
may check out his other videos. It reminded me that I used to be subscribed
to a podcast called geek pop , although the only song
I remember was one by someone named Johnny Berliner called "Where Are All
the Science Songs?".
Tangentially related is this SMBC link that someone posted on one of the
lists a while back: Saturday Morning Breakfast
Cereal
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Re: [FRIAM] jellyfish songs

2012-12-08 Thread Merle Lefkoff
I LOVE this!  And so will my 10-year old Asperger's granddaughter who
is already a very sophisticated marine biologist.  Thank you, Carl.

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Arlo Barnes  wrote:
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Re: [FRIAM] jellyfish songs

2012-12-07 Thread Arlo Barnes
Goodness, no. I like to do science, and I like to play music, and I support
and enjoy both and the combining of both, but a scientist's job is to do
science, not promote it through music or otherwise. Not that it would not
be good for them to do it anyway, just that it should not be a requirement.
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[FRIAM] jellyfish songs

2012-12-07 Thread Carl Tollander

Perhaps we have been promoting our science all wrong.
http://www.benikurage.com/index_en/index_en.htm

Singing scientists get more coverage.   (This guy has 3 articles about 
him in the NYTimes in the last couple weeks.)


The scientific *merits* are a different issue.  This is about face and 
sincerity, not jellyfish or immortality.


Should we not promote the idea that all candidates for a science degree 
should be able to sing or play a musical instrument to at least moderate 
competency?


C.



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