The Guild of Scientific Troubadours

2010

1. “A Tiny Golden Mean” by grant, based on “Golden Ratio Discovered in Quantum World: Hidden Symmetry Observed for the First Time in Solid State Matter,” ScienceDaily, 7 Jan 2010.
   Song details here.
2. “My Girlfriend’s a Robot” by grant. Originally by The Hanson Brothers.
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3. “Staring” by grant. Based on “Body of Sea Urchin is One Big Eye,” LiveScience, 28 Dec 2009.
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2009

1. “Iguana Rosada” by grant, based on “Rare, Storied Pink Iguana Discovered”, Popular Science, 5 Jan 2009.
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2. “Army Ants”, by grant, originally by Tom Waits.
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3. “Mama Never Taught Me”, by grant, based on “Can experiences be passed on to offspring? “, New Scientist, 9 Feb 2009.
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4. “Visibility”, by grant, based on “Strange fish has a see-through head”, MSNBC/LiveScience, 23 Feb 2009.
   Song details here.
5. “64 Actuators” by grant, based on “Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies”, IEEE Spectrum, 18 March 2009.
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6. “If I Believe It” by grant, based on “The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body “, New Scientist, 13 May 2009.
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7. “This is the Sound” by grant, based on “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate”, Technology Review, 10 June 2009.
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8. “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?”, by grant, originally The Mountain Goats.
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9. “Like Salamanders Do,” by grant, based on “Regenerated legs no big trick for salamanders”, Reuters, 1 July 2009.
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10. “Close Your Eyes” by grant, based on “Scary music is spookier with eyes shut “, New Scientist, 28 July 2009.
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11. “Up, Up, Up” by grant, based on “Maori legend of man-eating bird is true”, The Independent, 14 Sep 2009.
    Song details here.

    Also: Up, Up, Up_{sub 1}, a crunchy, anthemic remix.
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12. “Let’s Take the Boat Out” by grant, based on “A Rocket for the 21st Century”, SEED, 29 Sep 2009, and “Letter to rocket scientists from kid, 1957: ‘You put in other details,’”BoingBoing, 13 Oct 09.
    Song details here.

13. “A Strong Enough Lie” by grant, based on “Vanished Persian army said found in desert”, Discovery News, 9 Nov 2009.
    Song details here.
14. “Dear Winter” by grant, based on “Humans Have Hidden Sensory System”, LiveScience (via Yahoo! News), 8 Dec 2009.
    Song details here.

2008

1. “Flip the Switch” by grant, based on “Deep brain stimulation may help Alzheimer patient’s memories”, Telegraph.co.uk, 31 January 2008.
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2. “My Fingertips Are Weightless” by grant, based on “Origami spaceplane aims for space station descent”, New Scientist, 21 January 2008.
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3. “After the End”, by grant, based on “Arctic ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Opens”, Science Friday, 7 Mar 2008.
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4. “Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltonii”, by grant, based on “Colossal Squid Comes Out Of Ice”, BBC News, 28 April 2008.
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5. “Bathysphere” (penitential cover), by grant, originally by smog.
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6. “All Our Tomorrows”, by grant, based on “DNA Retrieved from 1,000-Year-Old Vikings”, LiveScience.com, 28 May 2008.
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7. “We Climb”, by grant, based on “Fossil fills out water-land leap”, BBC News, 25 Jun 2008.
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8. “When the Lights Go Out”, by grant, based on “Sleep-deprived brains alternate between normal activity and ‘power failure’”, Labspaces.net, 21 May 2008.
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9. “(We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider”, by grant, based on CERN progress updates throughout 2008.
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10. “Now the Snow”, by grant, based on “It’s snowing on Mars”, iTwire, 30 Sep 2008.
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11. “Build us a House (They Could See From Space).”, by grant, based on “Ancient Peru pyramid spotted by satellite”, Discovery, via MSNBC.com, 6 Oct 2008.
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12. “Isopods In My Aquarium”, by grant, based on “Antarctica Has More Species than Galapagos”, LiveScience, 2 Dec 2008.
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