It's two of my great loves -- PBS science shows, and Auto Tune -- brought together by Symphony of Science and made accessible to everyone via YouTube.
Watch them all. Download the MP3s. And you might find yourself walking around all day, singing to yourself
"...the secrets of evolution are time and death..."
or
"...one of the great revelations of space exploration is the image of the earth, finite and lonely, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time..."
or
"...matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you..."
or
"We are all connected...to each other, biologically...to the Earth, chemically...to the rest of the universe, atomically..."
And that, friends, would be awesome.
In fact, post your favorite "lyric" below.
"The Unbroken Thread"
"Our Place in the Cosmos"
"We Are All Connected"
"A Glorious Dawn"
"I find it elevating and exhilarating to discover that we live in a universe which permits the evolution of molecular machines as intricate and subtle as we."
"We will find ourselves on... very thin ice, very thin ice, very thin ice..."
Oh, wait. That's something else. I kept expecting an angry gorilla to show up, you know?
Still, this one always stands out to me:
"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."
John, that IS something else entirely, but also good. (If you haven't watched AutoTune the News, you should. The one John's quoting is even about science. Kinda.)
Who's your favorite "unintentional singer"? Carl Sagan is surprisingly good. Jane Goodall, too. But David Attenborough just cannot be made to sing, AutoTune or no.
i thought the whole subject was totally sweet
IF YOU WISH TO MAKE AN APPLE PIE FROM SCRATCH, YOU MUST FIRST INVENT THE UNIVERSE.
AAAAUUGGGGHHHH!! So Awesome. Thank you for these!
that is simply mind blowing
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
- Carl Sagan
Now THAT is epic, because it's true.
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