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To turn on captions: mouse over little triangle in bottom right corner of video, go up to the CC box, click. Voila, lyrics. Still worried about black holes? Let me break it down. First off, congrats to the LHC team for those first weeks of collisions, and continued luck for 2010. [This rap is endorsed by no organization, btw]. They will not have produced any mini-black-holes yet, but if you are still afraid for the future, this rap is all about why you shouldn't be. Will Barras personally provided the guitar, mixed in with the audio he produced: www.ling.ed.ac.uk Wrapping up his PhD so wish him luck! As usual, I have been a video magpie, and these people and sites deserve mention. I hope they all have a sense of humor. Cosmic rays: AIRES creator Sergio Sciutto and the crew from University of Chicagos astrophysics: Maximo Ave, Dinoj Surendran, Tokonatsu Yamamoto, Randy Landsberg, and Mark SubbaRao astro.uchicago.edu They're straight-up creative commons, so thanks to them. Neutron star documentary from the History Channel, found here: www.youtube.com More neutron stars Chandra X-ray center, Harvard University, found here: www.youtube.com From an unknown bbc documentary on Hawking Radiation, found here: www.youtube.com BBC The Real Hustle Series 3, Episode 6, found here: www.youtube.com Misunderstood Universe for the famous CERN Black Hole, found here: www.youtube.com ATLAS: cdsweb.cern.ch Images Fermilab pic: from Fermilab, Fred Ullrich Atmosphere pic: NASA Earth layers pic <b>...</b> Black Hole Rap
Rare isotopes rock. A return to the scene of my first encounter with accelerator physics -- the NSCL (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory) has won a bid to upgrade their nucleus-accelerator to the FRIB (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams). The video, lyrics and music are Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA). More info here: www.katemcalpine.com It's more than just me and a rag-tag crew of dancers running around with a handycam, but still heavily student-driven with Adam Rademacher on the video editing, also responsible for much of the filming next to Josh Farris. Both were guided by Prof Amol Pavangadkar. Also, the animations and images weren't lifted from wherever I could find them -- John Allison and Matt Bambach. Their prof, Karl Gude, is pretty much responsible for getting the whole Comm Arts posse on board. You can check out more of Matt's work on Vimeo: www.vimeo.com Karl's a mad cartoonist (maker of the poster and moving parts for targeted radiotherapy) and more: www.youtube.com Will Barras is still DJ to my MC, with a funky cruising sound this time: www.ling.ed.ac.uk I am deeply grateful to everyone who came out to dance: Brad Sherrill, one of the NSCL/FRIB head honchos; Bill Lynch, the prof who taught me most of what I know about thermodynamics; grad students Alisher Sanetullaev and Jenna Deavan; undergrads Zach Meisel and Emily Alexander; recent grad and former Science Theater cohort Ryan Norris; and my dear sister and MSU student, Kristen McAlpine. Matt Hodek and <b>...</b> Rare Isotope Rap
Rappin' about CERN's Large Hadron Collider! Links below... Apparently YouTube fixed the sound! Still, Will Barras made two options trying to get around the original problems: Other YouTube:www.youtube.com Vimeo: www.vimeo.com Vimeo is downloadable if you log in. There has been a lot of interest in the original mp3, lyrics, and vocals for remixing. You can find all that here: www.msu.edu There's also been interest in translation. You can get a subtitle-free version from Vimeo here (downloadable): www.vimeo.com With backing track available here (with and without Hawking-style voice): barras.ws Go ahead and translate, rap it, and post it! Just give us a shout-out, and it's probably a good idea to include the following credits ;-) Images came from: particlephysics.ac.uk, space.com, the Institute of Physics, NASA, Symmetry, and Marvel I forgot Einstein Online, and they called me out: www.einstein-online.info And I forgot Physics World (dunno what I was thinking when I put together the extra dimensions bit). Steve Abel set me to rights (but made no demands) physicsworld.com The talented dancers doubled as camera people, with some work by Neil Dixon. Stock footage is CERN's. Will Barras is responsible for the killa beats: www.ling.ed.ac.uk And thanks to MC Hawking, who first thought of using computer-voice to bring Stephen Hawking to the world of rap :-) www.mchawking.com The rapper has a day job (we agree this is a good thing) as a science writer. www.katemcalpine.com They'll <b>...</b> Large Hadron Rap
Two physicists from Tel Aviv imprinted rudimentary memories onto a network of living neurons. Now that's something worth rapping about. Want to know more? View an online article at physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com The actual research: Physical Review E 75, 050901(R) (2007) Also, apologies to Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob for completely slaughtering his name... N3UROCH!P Rap

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Comic Relief - Catherine Tate & David Tennant

http://www.rednoseday.com/ PLEASE DONATE! David Tennant is Catherine Tate's new English teacher in a sketch performed for Comic Relief 2007. Will she be bothered, though?

Cruise Cruise Baby

Life as a marine biologist, based on five years of monthly cruises in the Gulf of Maine. Lyrics and video by Chris Manning. Info and lyrics at http://www.cooa.unh.edu/cruise_cruise_baby.jsp

I.S.S. Baby

A group of NASAs students collaborated to create the greatest rap video ever released by NASA. Well, its the only one, but under that definition, it is the greatest. Its also technically the worst. Take your pick, and let us know what you think! To learn more about NASA and the ISS, follow...