SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes: study”, AFP, via Yahoo!News, 30 Apr 2012, as used in the post “Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.”.

ABSTRACT: This song was a response to Bill Corbett’s SongFu prompt, “Write an upbeat, danceable [...]

SONG: “Inside the Box.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature, “A Mad Hemorrhage” blog, 2 Apr 2012, as used in the post “About those CEO bonuses: How financial incentives make us less creative.”.

ABSTRACT: This song was a response to Mike Phirman’s SongFu [...]

SONG: “Back into flow.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “What it’s like to wear a brain-stimulating ‘thinking cap’”, BoingBoing, 4 Mar 2012, as used in the post “Slipping on the thinking cap”… and “Zap your brain into the flow: Fast track to pure focus”, New Scientist, 6 Feb [...]

SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake”, Washington Post, 31 Jan 2012, as used in the post “Lovecraft report: Scientists set to disturb primordial lake, deep under Antarctic ice.” (cf. 2011)

SONG: “Bioluminescence at the Dragon Vent.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: Squid Pro Crow.

SOURCE: Based on “Exotic creatures discovered living at deep-sea vent in Indian Ocean”, Guardian, 28 Dec 2011, as used in the post “Creatures of the Dragon Vent”.

ABSTRACT: This song was a result of a thing that I found [...]

SONG: “Rocket Africa.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “One man’s mission to put Ugandans in space”, CNN, 4 Oct 2011, as used in the post “From your back yard to outer space. (With you on board!)”.

ABSTRACT: I thought the African Space Research Program really needed an anthem. So [...]

SONG: “Shining Stone (Calcite Double Refraction).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Magical Viking stone may be real”, The Telegraph, 2 Nov 2011, as used in the post “How Vikings found the sun”.

ABSTRACT: Viking navigators. I wanted to make a song that sounded like a saga. Like an ancestral [...]

SONG: “Move It Close to You.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Mind-guided robotic arm lets paralyzed man touch girlfriend”, CBS News, 10 Oct 2011, as used in the post “Touching robot fingers”.

ABSTRACT: It’s funny – whenever I play this song with just an acoustic guitar, it kind of [...]

SONG: “Turn Me Inside Out.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Gut instinct: Tantalising evidence that intestinal bacteria can influence mood”, The Economist, 3 Sep 2011, and “Antibiotics: Killing Off Beneficial Bacteria … for Good?”, Wired, 26 Aug 11,as used in the posts “Antibiotics: not so good for you” [...]