To celebrate the annual Pi Day, and in the good tradition of geeky music by scientists, I would like to draw your attention to the American Pi Song (lyrics are found here), best listed to at 1:59 PM today.
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Gobbledygook by Martin Fenner
Martin Fenner's blog on scientific publishing in the internet age.
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Happy Pi Day
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- Friday, 14 Mar ch 2008 - 05:20 UTC
Last updated: Friday, 14 Mar 2008 - 05:20 UTC
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Or listen at 3:92pm.
Oh dear. Here we have an example of a sound engineer confronted with a digital effects unit he’d never seen before, and, being a geek who likes gadgets, decided to have a fiddle. Hence the prominent reverb and delay on the vocals, which are unlistenable. Someone should have seized him roughly and divided his circumference by his diamater before he could have done any more damage.
What is really missing on NN is a ‘Best of’ feature, where we could, for e.g., nominate comments like Henry’s for some kind of recognition.
We’re working on it ;-)
Pi green bottles hanging on the wall,
Pi green bottles hanging on the wall,
But if one green bottle should accidentally fall,
There’ll be 2.141592653589793238462643383279 50288419716939937510582097494459230781640628
62089986280348253421170679821480865132823066
47093844609550582231725359408128481117450284
10270193852110555964462294895493038196442881
09756659334461284756482337867831652712019091
45648566923460348610454326648213393607260249
14127372458700660631558817488152092096282925
40917153643678925903600113305305488204665213
84146951941511609433057270365759591953092186
11738193261179310511854807446237996274956735
188575… green bottles hanging on the wall.
@Matt – oh good! rubs hands with glee
@Bronwyn – http://www.coriolis.ch/en/pix/
V good Bronwen,
@Henry. Shocking, shocking control of the f/x by whomever mixed this.
I ain’t done Pi since I left school so nothing to add really.
On the geeky music front by scientists/PhDs however, thanks to the Guardian Science Weekly Podcasts I bring you GeekPop08
Pers fav is this
and whilst some of their other material is interesting, it’s not suitable for a family website.
Lovely, though the PI being sung about is not our favourite mathematical constant, but a software application.
And to add to the music festival, I bring you Serafina Steer’s Cheap demo, bad science which has little to do with science, but is beautiful nevertheless.