The SONGS

For more of a raw-data experience of all recordings, the “Songs” category can be accessed by clicking HERE.

Experiments of note:

“Now the Snow” [Download]
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“Isopods In My Aquarium” [Download]
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Starter Home [Download]
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“Beautiful (Have Another Plum)” [Download]
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“When the Lights Go Out” [Download]
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“Flip the Switch” [Download]
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“Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget” [Download]
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“After the End” [Download]
“If I Believe It” [Download]
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High Desert [Download]
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“Kavachi” [Download]
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“I Chant” [Download]
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“The Waves Around the Women” [Download]
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“Inside the Box” [Download]
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“nobody else can hear” [Download]
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“Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)” [Download]
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“Blood is Family” [Download]
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“Colonies” [Download]
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Leatherback, Crossing [Download]
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“Move It Close to You” [Download]
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“I Spent a Week in the Dark” [Download]
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“National Primate Home” [Download]
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2023

“Whispering Secrets to Me” [Download]
, based on Defector 15 Nov 2022, “Turtles Have Been Vocalizing All This Time. Why Did We Not Listen?.”
Song details here.
“The Elephant” [Download]
, based on BBC 28 Feb 2023, “Kerala: India temple replaces elephant with robot for rituals.”
Song details here.
“Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy” (a penitential Werk cover) [Download]
. Originally from an album called Songs About Giant Isopods. You can still hear the original track here, on Soundcloud.
Song details here.
“Secret Dragons” [Download]
, based on The Guardian 2 March 2023, “‘Like a little dragon’: new gecko species discovered on rugged Queensland island.”
Song details here.
“In the Years Before A/C” [Download]
, based on the National Park Service, 1 May 2023, “National Park archeologists find remains of an underwater hospital and cemetery at Dry Tortugas.”
Song details here.
“Content Feeds” [Download]
, based on The Markup, 1 May 2023, “The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT.”
Song details here.
“The Scientist (a penitential Coldplay cover)” [Download]
(available as .ogg here). This isn’t based on research It’s a cover of this vaguely scientific song by Coldplay.
Song details here.
“FAQs” [Download]
(available as
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), based on Popular Science, 14 Aug 2023, “School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books.”
Song details here.
“Clockwork of the Sky” [Download]
(available as
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), based on BBC, 8 Sep 2023, “Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa’s deliberate Dart crash.”
Song details here.

2022

“In Pompeii” [Download]
, based on Scientific American 6 Dec 2021, “Pompeii’s Ruins to Be Reconstructed by Robot.”
Song details here.
“Remember Your Hands” [Download]
, based on Science News 31 Jan 2022, “A new device helps frogs regrow working legs after an amputation.
Song details here.
“Lost Aromas (A Rose)” [Download]
, based on Discover 25 Jan 2022, “Smells Are Going Extinct, So Researchers Are Working to Preserve Them,”
Song details here.
“Like Lava Made of Water” [Download]
, based on Science 17 Apr 2022, “Icy Volcanos on Pluto Could Be Sign of Underground Ocean.”
Song details here.
“A Pseudo-Satellite” [Download]
, based on CNN 5 May 2022, “This solar-powered plane could stay in the air for months.”
Song details here.
“Octopus Gloves” [Download]
. (OGG version), based on Science News 13 July 2022, “This octopus-inspired glove helps humans grip slippery objects.”
Song details here.
“False Social Reality” [Download]
, based on Nature Communications 23 Aug 2022, “Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half.”
Song details here.
“Good People Grow” [Download]
, based on Science 29 Sep 2022, “This lagoon is effectively a person, says Spanish law that’s attempting to save it.”
Song details here.
“Sandpaper Skin” [Download]
, based on PLOS One 19 Oct 2022, “Sharks are the preferred scraping surface for large pelagic fishes: Possible implications for parasite removal and fitness in a changing ocean.”
Song details here.
“14.8 Million” [Download]
, based on Nature 14 Dec 2022, “Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID.”
Song details here.

2021

“In the Albatross Museum” [Download]
, based on Science Friday, 8 Jan 2021, “Giant, Toothed Birds Once Ruled The Skies”.
Song details here.
“Small” [Download]
, based on Science News, 4 Feb 2021, “A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile”.
Song details here.
“Welcome to the Landing” [Download]
, based on NASA, 5 Mar 2021, Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing'” (as well as, to a smaller degree, Science, 22 Feb 2021, “Martian rover sends back ‘overwhelming’ video, audio from the Red Planet“).
Song details here.
“Science” (a penitential cover) [Download]
, originally by Monkey Swallows the Universe.
Song details here.
“Lawns Are The Enemy” [Download]
, based on Scientific American, 9 Apr 2021, “Brood X Cicadas Could Cause a Bird Baby Boom”.
Song details here.
“Dream Agency” [Download]
, based on Science, 11 Jun 2021, “Are advertisers coming for your dreams?”.
Song details here.
“Listening” [Download]
, based on Scientific American, 12 Jul 2021, “The Neuroscience of Taking Turns in a Conversation”.
Song details here.
“Curling at the Edges” [Download]
, based on Science, 1 Aug 2021, “The Milky Way is more warped than astronomers thought”.
Song details here.
“I Chant” [Download]
, based on Smithsonian, 23 Feb 2021, “Archaeologists in Egypt Discover Mummy With Gold Tongue”.
Song details here.
“Rocks in the Sky” [Download]
based on NASA Press Release, 16 Oct 21, “NASA, ULA Launch Lucy Mission to ‘Fossils’ of Planet Formation.”
Song details here.
“Butterflies” [Download]
, based on Discover, 3 Nov 21, “How Citizen Scientists Uncovered the Strange Behavior of ‘Vampire’ Butterflies.”
Song details here.
“Deeper Than Love (a penitential cover)” [Download]
, originally by Colleen Green.
Song details here.
“Fast Blue Optical Transients” [Download]
, based on Science News 13 Dec 2021, “The cosmic ‘Cow’ may have produced a new neutron star or black hole.”
Song details here.

2020

“Under Orion’s Arms” [Download]
, based on SPACE.com, 3 January 2020, “Will Bright Star Betelgeuse Finally Explode? A Look at the Dimming Red Giant in Orion’s Shoulder.”
Song details here.
“Young and Stupid” [Download]
, based on The Guardian, 3 February 2020, “Girls beginning puberty almost a year earlier than in 1970s.”
Song details here.
“In the Sounding Deep” [Download]
, based on Scientific American, April 2020, “Undersea Telescopes Scan the Sky from Below.”
Song details here.
“In the Ring” [Download]
, based on Scientific American, 4 May 2020, “A Shiny Snack Bag’s Reflections Can Reconstruct the Room around It.”
Song details here.
“Cluster Anatomy” [Download]
, based on Science News, 2 June 2020, “A new 3-D map illuminates the ‘little brain’ within the heart.”
Song details here.
“Satellite of Love” (a penitential cover) [Download]
, originally by the Velvet Underground, although the canonical version is the one Lou Reed did later on with David Bowie.
Song details here.
“Campfires” [Download]
, based on Science Daily, 16 July 2020, “Solar Orbiter’s first images reveal ‘campfires’ on the Sun.”
Song details here.
“All I See” [Download]
, based on Scientific American, 28 July 2020, “The Brittle Star That Sees with Its Body.”
Song details here.
“Collisions” [Download]
, based on BBC, 2 Sep 2020, “Black holes: Cosmic signal rattles Earth after 7 billion years.”
Song details here.
“Bang, You’re Misled” [Download]
, based on Defense One, 2 October 2020, “Can AI Detect Disinformation? A New Special Operations Program May Find Out.”
Song details here.
“Six Seconds” [Download]
, based on Science New , 21 Oct 2020, “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of an asteroid.”
Song details here.
“Iron in the Sky” [Download]
, based on Science News, 19 Nov 2020, “50 years ago, scientists named Earth’s magnetic field as a suspect in extinctions”.
Song details here.

2019

“2014 MU₆₉ (Approach Me)” [Download]
, based on Science News, 30 Dec 2018-1 Jan 2019, “Live updates: New Horizons’ flyby of a distant Kuiper Belt object”
Song details here.
“My Batteries” [Download]
, based on Jacob Margolis’ Twitter feed, 13 Feb 2019, 3:30 AM “The last message they received…”
Song details here.
“Math” (penitential cover) [Download]
, originally by the 1990s “spacewave” pop-punk band Supernova
Song details here.
“Facing North” [Download]
, Science News, 18 Mar 2019, “People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest”
Song details here.
“Bodiless” [Download]
, based on Vox, 17 April 2019, “Scientists: We kept pig brains alive 10 hours after death. Bioethicists: ‘Holy shit.’”
Song details here.
“Built on Sand” [Download]
, based on Nature, 2 July 2019, “Time is running out for sand”
Song details here.
“Adria” [Download]
, based on Science, 6 September 2019, “Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe”
Song details here.
“Multicellular” [Download]
, based on Science News, 17 October 2019, “Acrobatic choanoflagellates could help explain how multicellularity evolved”
Song details here.
“Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget” [Download]
, based on Scientific American, 18 November 2019, “Deeper Insights Emerge into How Memories Form.”
Song details here.
“I Spent a Week in the Dark” [Download]
, based on Science Daily, 8 December 2019, “A week in the dark rewires brain cell networks and changes hearing in adult mice.”
Song details here.

2018

“In Circles” (penitential cover) [Download]
, originally by Einstürzende Neubauten
Song details here.
“Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons” [Download]
, based on “Incredible ‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System”, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan 2018
Song details here.
“Let Them In (Voluntary Schistosomiasis)” [Download]
, based on Science, 21 Feb 2018, “Seventeen volunteers let this worm live inside them to help defeat a dangerous disease”
Song details here.
“Titanium” (penitential cover) [Download]
, originally by David Guetta, though people might know it best because Sia sang it.
Song details here.
“At 6 A.M.” [Download]
, based on Nature, 17 Apr 2018, “Medicine’s secret ingredient — it’s in the timing”
Song details here.
“The Russian Cuckoo Reproduces in the Midnight Sun” [Download]
, based on Popular Science, 7 May 2018, “Russian cuckoos are taking over Alaska”
Song details here.
“Upside Down” [Download]
, based on Nature, 12 June 2018, “Africa’s majestic baobab trees are mysteriously dying”
Song details here.
“One of Our Submarines” (penitential cover) [Download]
, originally by Thomas Dolby
Song details here.
“Rats Get Into Everything” [Download]
, based on Nature, 11 July 2018, “Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning in the absence of invasive rats”
Song details here.
“Circuits in the Sand” (penitential cover) [Download]
, originally by King Tuff
Song details here.
“Taste the Wind” [Download]
, based on Nature, 13 Aug 2018, “Spacecraft sets off to make humanity’s closest approach to the Sun”
Song details here.
“Picture on Your Phone” [Download]
, based on i>Science Direct, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Selfie’ harm: Effects on mood and body image in young women”
Song details here.
“Quantum Biology” [Download]
, based on Scientific American, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Schrödinger’s Bacterium’ Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”
Song details here.
“Black Star” (penitential cover) [Download]
, originally by Radiohead, and was covered acoustically by Gillian Welch with David Rawlin
Song details here.
“Forgotten” [Download]
, based on Nature, 13 Dec. 2018, “‘Transmissible’ Alzheimer’s theory gains traction “
Song details here.

2017

“By Numbers” [Download]
by grant, based on “Germany to probe Nazi-era medical science,” Science, 5 Jan 2017.
Song details here.
“Glassy Carbon Rods” [Download]
by grant, based on Big improvement to brain-computer interface,” Science Daily, 17 Feb 2017.
Song details here.
“The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon)” [Download]
by grant, based on The quest to crystallize time,” Nature, 8 Mar 2017.
Song details here.
Another Girl, Another Planet (penitential cover) [Download]
, originally by The Only Ones,
Song details here.
“Facts Will Save Us All” [Download]
, based on Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove,” New York Times, 17 Apr 2017.
Song details here.
“Nine Dangshen Flowers” [Download]
, based on China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance,” Science, 15 Jun 2017
Song details here.
“I Had A Fever” [Download]
, based on Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?,” Scientific American, 17 Jul 2017
Song details here.
“Frozen Atmospheres” [Download]
, based on Record-shattering 2.7-million-year-old ice core reveals start of the ice ages,” Science, 15 Aug 2017
Song details here.
“Around This Mystery” [Download]
, based on Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses,” Quartz, 17 Sep 2017
Song details here.
“Heaven is Our Home” [Download]
, based on Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months,” The Guardian, 13 Oct 2017
Song details here.
“Electronics Follow” [Download]
, based on First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’,” The New York Times, 13 Nov 2017
Song details here.

2016

“Heavy In My Head” [Download]
by grant, based on “Anxiety can impact people’s walking direction,” Science Daily, 19 Jan. 2016.
Song details here.
“Janssen” [Download]
by grant, based on “Scientists just analyzed the atmosphere of a ‘super-Earth’ for the first time,” Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2016.
Song details here.
“Not a Pony” [Download]
by grant, featuring Enok Webb, based on “Horse-sized tyrannosaur may be long-sought missing link in T.rex evolution,” Washington Post, March 14, 2016.
Song details here.
“Atomic Number” (a penitential cover) [Download]
bygrant. (Originally by case/lang/veirs.)
Song details here.
“Meat Man” [Download]
by grant, based on “High-Protein Diet May Have Shaped Neanderthals,” Archaeology, 30 March 2016.
Song details here.
“Everything Appears to be in Order” [Download]
by grant, based on “AI Pioneer ROSS Intelligence Lands Its First Big Law Clients,” The American Lawyer, 6 May 2016.
Song details here.
“Electric Wind” [Download]
by grant, based on “Water on Venus was stripped away by ‘electric wind’,” Wired, 21 June 2016.
Song details here.
“Cells, Sensors, Silicon” [Download]
by grant, based on “This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells,” Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016.
Song details here.
“Turn Me Back” [Download]
by grant, based on “CRISPR’s hopeful monsters: gene-editing storms evo-devo labs,” Nature, 17 Aug 2016.
Song details here.
“Gaia (1,000 Times)” [Download]
by grant, based on “Milky Way mapper: 6 ways the Gaia spacecraft will change astronomy,” Nature, 09 Sep 2016.
Song details here.
“Blood is Family” [Download]
by grant, based on “Small Island, Big Experiment,” FiveThirtyEight Science, Oct 2016.Song details here.
“Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)” [Download]
by grant (originally by Mose Allison).
Song details here.
“Tiny Reindeer” [Download]
by grant, based on Reindeer are shrinking, because of warmer arctic temperatures ,” Science, 11 Dec 2016.
Song details here.

2015

“Sleeping” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Naps Help Infants Form Memories“, Laboratory Equipment, 14 January 2015.
Song details here.
“White Coffee and Omelets” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Cut Sugary Drinks; Add Coffee, Eggs“, Laboratory Equipment, 20 February 2015.
Song details here.
“The Waves Around the Women” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Scientists have discovered nature’s newest strongest material“, Washington Post, 18 February 2015.
Song details here.
“How the Moon Began” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Puzzle of Moon’s origin resolved”, Nature, 8 April 2015.
Song details here.
“I Am Sailing” [Download]
by grant, based on “LightSail”, sail.planetary.org, retrieved 13 May 2015.Song details here.
“Vulnerable Ape Theory (Going to a Blues Show with the Young Earth Creationists)” [Download]
by grant, based on “Vulnerability made us human: how our early ancestors turned disability into advantage”, PhysOrg, 15 June 2015.
Song details here.
“Kavachi” [Download]
by grant, based on “Deep-Sea Cameras Reveal a ‘Sharkcano'”, National Geographic Explorers’ Journal, 9 July 2015.
Song details here.
“Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth),” [Download]
by grant, based on “NASA Windbots Could Explore Gas Giant Jupiter”, Sky News, 24 July 2015.
Song details here.
“One (Is The Loneliest Number)” (penitential cover) [Download]
, by grant, featuring Sebastian Balfour. Originally by Harry Nilsson.
Song details here.
“Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)” [Download]
by grant, based on “Lasers used to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum”, Science Daily, 7 Sep 2015.
Song details here.
“All Praise Black Ice” [Download]
by grant, based on “New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto”, NASA.gov, 8 Oct 2015.
Song details here.
“Jump, Jump, Jump” [Download]
by grant, based on “Fish and Adaptation: Mangrove Fish Jumps into Air in Warming Water”, Nature World News, 21 Oct 2015.Song details here.
“Aware of Emptiness” [Download]
by grant, based on “China’s dark-matter satellite launches era of space science”, Nature, 17 Dec 2015.
Song details here.

2014

“The Impossible One” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Earth-mass exoplanet is no Earth twin,” Nature, 6 January 2014.
Song details here.
“The Road We Wander.” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Monarch migration may become extinct,” Laboratory Equipment, 30 January 2014.
Song details here.
“Starter Home.” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Home Tweet Home: High-Tech Solutions for House and Apartment,” New York Times, 7 March 2014.
Song details here.
“Growing Batteries” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Process Turns Cellulose into Energy Storage Devices”, Laboratory Equipment, 8 April 2014.
Song details here.
“Something Missing” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Man prefers $50 3-D printed hand to $42,000 prosthetic”, Washington Post, 23 April 2014.
Song details here.
“Colonies” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Bees build mental maps to get home”, Nature, 2 Jun 2014.
Song details here.
“Step Into The Sky” [Download]
, by grant, based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally long feathering provides insights into dromaeosaurid flight performance”, Nature Communications, 15 July 2014.
Song details here.
“Rosetta” [Download]
, by grant, based on “‘We’re in orbit!’ Rosetta becomes first spacecraft to orbit comet”, CNN, 6 Aug 2014.
Song details here.
“Could You Tell Me Your Name?” [Download]
, by grant, based on“Anxiety and sleeping pills ‘linked to dementia'”, BBC News, 9 September 2014.
Song details here.
“Forget” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Manipulating memory with light: Scientists erase specific memories in mice“, Science Daily, 9 October 2014.
Song details here.
“High Desert” [Download]
, by grant, based on “All Dressed Up For Mars And Nowhere To Go“, Medium, 9 November 2014.
Song details here.
“Not Even Dancing Works” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Zoologger: Dancing in time makes crabs sexual failures“, New Scientist, 4 December 2014.
Song details here.
“Particles of Attraction” (penitential cover) [Download]
, by grant, originally by AJ Allulli.
Song details here.

2013

“In the Light,” [Download]
by grant, based on “Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate”, New Scientist, 18 January 2013.
Song details here.
“Spirit of the Words,” [Download]
by grant, based on Computer program roots out ancestors of modern tongues”, Nature, 11 Feb 2013.
Song details here.
“So Heavy,” [Download]
by grant, based on “Super-dense celestial bodies could be a new kind of planet,” Nature, 13 March 2013.
Song details here.
“Aeronaut, Come,” [Download]
by grant, based on “Charles A. A. Dellschau Dreams of Flying: The Amazing Story of an Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed,” The Atlantic, 21 March 2013.
Song details here.
“Back to the Printer,” [Download]
by grant, based on “MIT and Harvard’s 3D-Printed Inchworm Robot Can Assemble Itself,” Inhabitat, 13 May 2013.
Song details here.
“Beautiful People” (penitential cover) [Download]
, by grant, originally by The Books.
Song details here.
“Inside My Eyes” [Download]
by grant, based on “Fossil brain teaser: New study reveals patterns of dinosaur brain development,” PhysOrg, 20 May 2013.
Song details here.
“Better Angels” [Download]
by grant, based on “Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media,” The Guardian, 17 March 2011.
Song details here.
“Regenerative Medicine” [Download]
by grant, based on “Decellularized Mouse Heart Beats Again After Regenerating With Human Heart Precursor Cells,” Science Daily, 13 August 2013.
Song details here.
“Better Man” [Download]
by grant, based on “Just thinking about science triggers moral behavior,” Scientific American, 27 August 2013.
Song details here.
“The Hardest of Carbon” by [Download]
grant, based on “Diamond drizzle forecast for Saturn and Jupiter,” Nature, 9 October 2013.
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“Kiss the Earth” by [Download]
grant, based on “World’s biggest dinosaur takes first steps in 94 million years – digitally, that is,” Digital Trends, 1 November 2013.
Song details here.
“Like A Rooster At Dawn” [Download]
by grant, based on “Duck-billed dinosaur had rooster-like cock comb,” New Scientist, 12 December 2013.
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2012

“Bioluminescence at the Dragon Vent,” [Download]
by Squid Pro Crow, based on “Exotic creatures discovered living at deep-sea vent in Indian Ocean”, Guardian, 28 Dec 2011.
Song details here.
“Antarctica Awakes!” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake”, Washington Post, 31 Jan 2012.
Song details here.
“Back into flow,” [Download]
by grant, based on “What it’s like to wear a brain-stimulating ‘thinking cap'”, BoingBoing, 4 Mar 2012, and “Zap your brain into the flow: Fast track to pure focus”, New Scientist, 6 Feb 2012.
Song details here.
“Inside the Box,” [Download]
by grant, based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature, “A Mad Hemorrhage” blog, 2 Apr 2012.
Song details here.
“This Stupid War,” [Download]
by grant, based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes: study”, AFP, via Yahoo!News, 30 Apr 2012.
Song details here.
“Tired (A Neanderthal Complains),” [Download]
by grant, based on “Neanderthals may have been first human species to create cave paintings”, Guardian, 14 June 2012.
Song details here.
“National Primate Home” [Download]
by grant, based on “Call for NIH research chimpanzees to be retired”, Nature, 6 July 2012.
Song details here.
“Hi There! (We’re Robots From Earth)” [Download]
by grant, based on “Mars rover Curiosity zaps ‘Coronation’ rock with rapid-fire laser (+video)”, Christian Science Monitor, 20 August 2012, and @MarsCuriosity, Twitter, 6 Aug 12.
Song details here.
“Particle” [Download]
by grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi), based on “How Fungi Create the Amazon’s Clouds”, Time, 5 September 2012.
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“Is There A Light?” [Download]
by grant, based on “New Planet Is Closest Yet: Earth-Size Lava World a Space ‘Landmark'”, National Geographic, 17 October 2012.
Song details here.
“Cloudbusting”(a penitential cover) [Download]
, by grant. A song about Wilhelm Reich’s tragic life (through the eyes of his son), written by Kate Bush, although I kinda favor Gemma Hayes’ version.
Song details here.
“Complicated Man.” [Download]
, by grant, based on “New carnivorous harp sponge discovered in deep sea”, Nature, 9 November 2012.
Song details here.
“Starts Beating” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Scientists build a biological pacemaker by injecting a modified virus into the heart”, io9.com, 17 December 2012.
Song details here.
“Mesopotamia” (penitential B52s cover) [Download]
by grant, originally by the B52s.
Song details here.

2011

“Leatherback, Crossing,” [Download]
by grant, based on “Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters”, Guardian, 5 January 11.
Song details here.
“Answering the Call.” [Download]
, by grant, based on Koalas bellow to attract a mate, BBC News, 18 Feb 11.
Song details here.
“Blood Sweat Horses (Hàn Xie? Ma?)” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Mausoleum find rekindles ancient Chinas blood sweating horse legend, Archaeology Daily, 21 February 11.
Song details here.
“Grains of Aragonite” [Download]
, by grant, based on Primitive sea creature sports eyes made of rock, LiveScience, 14 Apr 11.
Song details here.
“Without the Sun” [Download]
, by grant, based on Stress can shorten telomeres in childhood, Nature, 17 May 11, and Our Galaxy Is Littered with Orphan Planets, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2011.
Song details here.
“Humidity” [Download]
, by grant, based on Star Found Shooting Water “Bullets”, National Geographic, 13 June 2011.
Song details here.
“The Shape of Your Words,” [Download]
by grant, based on “Kiki or bouba? In search of language’s missing link”, New Scientist, 19 July 2011.
Song details here.
“Evert 1 Pipkin” (penitential cover) [Download]
by grant. Originally by Man or Astro-Man?
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“One In Ten.” [Download]
by grant, based on “Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas”, ScienceBlog, 25 July 2011.
Song details here.
“Turn Me Inside Out,” [Download]
by grant, 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.
Song details here.
“Move It Close to You,” by [Download]
grant, based on “Mind-guided robotic arm lets paralyzed man touch girlfriend”, CBS News, 10 Oct 2011.
Song details here.
“Shining Stone (Calcite Double Refraction),” [Download]
by grant, based on “Magical Viking stone may be real”, The Telegraph, 2 Nov 2011.
Song details here.
“Rocket Africa,” [Download]
by grant, based on “One man’s mission to put Ugandans in space”, CNN, 4 Oct 2011.
Song details here.

2010

“A Tiny Golden Mean” [Download]
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.
“My Girlfriend’s a Robot” (penitential cover) [Download]
by grant. Originally by The Hanson Brothers.
Song details here.
“Staring” [Download]
by grant. Based on “Body of Sea Urchin is One Big Eye,” LiveScience, 28 Dec 2009.
Song details here.
“The Stick That Never Strikes the Snare” [Download]
by grant, based on “Scientists supersize quantum mechanics,” Nature , 17 March 2010.
Song details here.
“Aquarium” (penitential cover) [Download]
by grant. Originally by Robyn Hitchcock.
Song details here.
“Mexican Coke” [Download]
, by grant, based on “A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain,” Princeton University, 22 Mar 2010.
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“Golden Record” [Download]
by grant, partially based on “Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft”, Daily Telegraph, 12 May 10, and partially based on “Barnard’s Star” by Kate Horowitz.
Song details here.
“Crocodile Surf” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Crocodiles go with the flow”, Nature, 7 June 2010.
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“nobody else can hear” [Download]
by grant, based on “Super squid sex organ discovered”, BBC News, 7 July 2010.
Song details here.
“Rising Like the Sun” [Download]
by grant, based on “Antidepressants in water cause shrimps to ‘swim towards the light'”, BBC News, 7 July 2010.
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“The Imperial Worm” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Warrior Worms Swallow Enemies Whole”, Discovery News, 14 September 10.
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“Run Straight Down” (penitential cover) [Download]
by grant. Originally by Warren Zevon.
Song details here.
“Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)” [Download]
by grant, based on “36 million-year-old penguin was five feet tall and had reddish-brown feathers”, io9.com (quoting Science), 30 September 10.
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“Beyond the Ends of the Earth” [Download]
by grant, based on “100 Year Starship: Nasa’s plan to colonise galaxy”, The First Post, 27 October 10.
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“Planet of Diamonds” [Download]
by grant, based on “Scientists Discover the First Carbon-Rich Planet – Which May Have Mountains of Diamonds”, BigThink.com, 14 December 10.
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2009

“Iguana Rosada” [Download]
by grant, based on “Rare, Storied Pink Iguana Discovered”, Popular Science, 5 Jan 2009.
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“Army Ants” (penitential cover) [Download]
, by grant, originally by Tom Waits.
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“Mama Never Taught Me” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Can experiences be passed on to offspring? “, New Scientist, 9 Feb 2009.
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“Visibility” [Download]
, by grant, based on “Strange fish has a see-through head”, MSNBC/LiveScience, 23 Feb 2009.
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“64 Actuators” [Download]
by grant, based on “Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies”, IEEE Spectrum, 18 March 2009.
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“If I Believe It” [Download]
by grant, based on “The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body “, New Scientist, 13 May 2009.
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“This is the Sound” [Download]
by grant, based on “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate”, Technology Review, 10 June 2009.
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“Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?” (penitential cover) [Download]
, by grant, originally The Mountain Goats.
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“Like Salamanders Do,” [Download]
by grant, based on “Regenerated legs no big trick for salamanders”, Reuters, 1 July 2009.
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“Close Your Eyes” [Download]
by grant, based on “Scary music is spookier with eyes shut “, New Scientist, 28 July 2009.
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“Up, Up, Up” [Download]
by grant, based on “Maori legend of man-eating bird is true”, The Independent, 14 Sep 2009.
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Also: Up, Up, Upsub 1 [Download]
, a crunchy, anthemic remix.
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“Let’s Take the Boat Out” [Download]
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.
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“A Strong Enough Lie” [Download]
by grant, based on “Vanished Persian army said found in desert”, Discovery News, 9 Nov 2009.
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“Dear Winter” [Download]
by grant, based on “Humans Have Hidden Sensory System”, LiveScience (via Yahoo! News), 8 Dec 2009.
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2008

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