The SONGS

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

Experiments of note:

1. “Now the Snow”,
2. “Isopods In My Aquarium”,
3. Starter Home,
4. “Beautiful (Have Another Plum)”,
5. “When the Lights Go Out”,
6. “Flip the Switch”,
7. “Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget”,
8. “After the End”
9. “If I Believe It”,
10. High Desert,
11. “Kavachi”,
12. “I Chant”,
13. “The Waves Around the Women”,
14. “Inside the Box”,
15. “nobody else can hear”,
16. “Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)”,
17. “Blood is Family”,
18. “Colonies”,
19. Leatherback, Crossing,
20. “Move It Close to You”,
21. “I Spent a Week in the Dark”,
22. “National Primate Home”.

2024

1. “Hymn of Acxiom” (a penitential cover). (available as .ogg here). This isn’t based on research. It’s a cover of “Hymn of Acxiom,” a song by Vienna Teng. I largely relied on this live version, although I can’t deny the whole marching-band phenomenon also played a role.
   Song details here.
2. “Lady at the Generator”. (available as .ogg here), based on Amsterdam UMC, 4 Jan 2024, “Tiredness Experienced by Long Covid Patients Has a Physical Cause.”
   Song details here.
3. “Great Big Love”. (available as .ogg here), based on The Guardian, 28 Feb 2024, “Humpback sex photographed for first time – and both whales were male.”
   Song details here.
4. “I Am Your Library”. (available as .ogg here), based on Science Daily, 25 Mar 2024, “New archive of ancient human brains challenges misconceptions of soft tissue preservation.”
   Song details here.
5. “Migration Roads”. (available as .ogg here), basedon LiveScience, 3 May 2024, “1st Americans came over in 4 different waves from Siberia, linguist argues.”
   Song details here.
6. “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” (a penitential Emperor X cover). This isn’t based on any research; it’s a cover of an Emperor X song.
   Song details here.
7. “Inside the Moon” (OGG version here), based on BBC, 15 July 2024, “Cave discovered on Moon could be home for humans.”
   Song details here.
8. “Oceans Under Mars” (WAV version here), based on PhysOrg, 12 Aug 2024, “Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep to tap.”
   Song details here.
9. “Serotonin” (a penitential girl in red cover). (OGG version here.) This isn’t based on any research; it’s a cover of a girl in red song… although it’s maybe closer to this more minimal acoustic version the band recorded for MTV more recently.
   Song details here.

2023

1. “Whispering Secrets to Me”, based on Defector 15 Nov 2022, “Turtles Have Been Vocalizing All This Time. Why Did We Not Listen?.”
   Song details here.
2. “The Elephant”, based on BBC 28 Feb 2023, “Kerala: India temple replaces elephant with robot for rituals.”
   Song details here.
3. “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy” (a penitential Werk cover). Originally from an album called Songs About Giant Isopods. You can still hear the original track here, on Soundcloud.
   Song details here.
4. “Secret Dragons”, based on The Guardian 2 March 2023, “‘Like a little dragon’: new gecko species discovered on rugged Queensland island.”
   Song details here.
5. “In the Years Before A/C”, 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.
6. “Content Feeds”, based on The Markup, 1 May 2023, “The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT.”
   Song details here.
7. “The Scientist (a penitential Coldplay cover)” (available as .ogg here). This isn’t based on research It’s a cover of this vaguely scientific song by Coldplay.
   Song details here.
8. “FAQs” (available as .wav here), based on Popular Science, 14 Aug 2023, “School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books.”
   Song details here.
9. “Clockwork of the Sky” (available as .wav here), based on BBC, 8 Sep 2023, “Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa’s deliberate Dart crash.”
   Song details here.
10. “Communications” (a penitential Slim Gaillard cover) (available as .ogg here). It’s a cover of a genius jazz tune from 1947 by Slim Gaillard.
    Song details here.
11. “Fine Altar Stone” (available as .ogg here), based on IFL Science, 25 Sep 2023, “The Stonehenge Altar Stone Didn’t Come From Where We Thought It Did.”
    Song details here.
12. “Burning Libraries” (available as .ogg here), bsed on The Guardian, 12 Oct 2023, “Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned by Vesuvius.”
    Song details here.

2022

1. “In Pompeii”, based on Scientific American 6 Dec 2021, “Pompeii’s Ruins to Be Reconstructed by Robot.”
   Song details here.
2. “Remember Your Hands”, based on Science News 31 Jan 2022, “A new device helps frogs regrow working legs after an amputation.
   Song details here.
3. “Lost Aromas (A Rose)”, based on Discover 25 Jan 2022, “Smells Are Going Extinct, So Researchers Are Working to Preserve Them,”
   Song details here.
4. “Like Lava Made of Water”, based on Science 17 Apr 2022, “Icy Volcanos on Pluto Could Be Sign of Underground Ocean.”
   Song details here.
5. “A Pseudo-Satellite”, based on CNN 5 May 2022, “This solar-powered plane could stay in the air for months.”
   Song details here.
6. “Octopus Gloves”. (OGG version), based on Science News 13 July 2022, “This octopus-inspired glove helps humans grip slippery objects.”
   Song details here.
7. “False Social Reality”, 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.
8. “Good People Grow”, based on Science 29 Sep 2022, “This lagoon is effectively a person, says Spanish law that’s attempting to save it.”
   Song details here.
9. “Sandpaper Skin”, 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.
10. “14.8 Million”, based on Nature 14 Dec 2022, “Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID.”
    Song details here.

2021

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

2020

1. “Under Orion’s Arms”, 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.
2. “Young and Stupid”, based on The Guardian, 3 February 2020, “Girls beginning puberty almost a year earlier than in 1970s.”
   Song details here.
3. “In the Sounding Deep”, based on Scientific American, April 2020, “Undersea Telescopes Scan the Sky from Below.”
   Song details here.
4. “In the Ring”, based on Scientific American, 4 May 2020, “A Shiny Snack Bag’s Reflections Can Reconstruct the Room around It.”
   Song details here.
5. “Cluster Anatomy”, based on Science News, 2 June 2020, “A new 3-D map illuminates the ‘little brain’ within the heart.”
   Song details here.
6. “Satellite of Love” (a penitential cover), originally by the Velvet Underground, although the canonical version is the one Lou Reed did later on with David Bowie.
   Song details here.
7. “Campfires”, based on Science Daily, 16 July 2020, “Solar Orbiter’s first images reveal ‘campfires’ on the Sun.”
   Song details here.
8. “All I See”, based on Scientific American, 28 July 2020, “The Brittle Star That Sees with Its Body.”
   Song details here.
9. “Collisions”, based on BBC, 2 Sep 2020, “Black holes: Cosmic signal rattles Earth after 7 billion years.”
   Song details here.
10. “Bang, You’re Misled”, based on Defense One, 2 October 2020, “Can AI Detect Disinformation? A New Special Operations Program May Find Out.”
    Song details here.
11. “Six Seconds”, 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.
12. “Iron in the Sky”, 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

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

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

1. “In the Light,” by grant, based on “Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate”, New Scientist, 18 January 2013.
   Song details here.
2. “Spirit of the Words,” by grant, based on Computer program roots out ancestors of modern tongues”, Nature, 11 Feb 2013.
   Song details here.
3. “So Heavy,” by grant, based on “Super-dense celestial bodies could be a new kind of planet,” Nature, 13 March 2013.
   Song details here.
4. “Aeronaut, Come,” 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.
5. “Back to the Printer,” by grant, based on “MIT and Harvard’s 3D-Printed Inchworm Robot Can Assemble Itself,” Inhabitat, 13 May 2013.
   Song details here.
6. “Beautiful People” (penitential cover), by grant, originally by The Books.
   Song details here.
7. “Inside My Eyes” by grant, based on “Fossil brain teaser: New study reveals patterns of dinosaur brain development,” PhysOrg, 20 May 2013.
   Song details here.
8. “Better Angels” by grant, based on “Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media,” The Guardian, 17 March 2011.
   Song details here.
9. “Regenerative Medicine” by grant, based on “Decellularized Mouse Heart Beats Again After Regenerating With Human Heart Precursor Cells,” Science Daily, 13 August 2013.
   Song details here.
10. “Better Man” by grant, based on “Just thinking about science triggers moral behavior,” Scientific American, 27 August 2013.
    Song details here.
11. “The Hardest of Carbon” by grant, based on “Diamond drizzle forecast for Saturn and Jupiter,” Nature, 9 October 2013.
    Song details here.
12. “Kiss the Earth” by 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.
13. “Like A Rooster At Dawn” by grant, based on “Duck-billed dinosaur had rooster-like cock comb,” New Scientist, 12 December 2013.
    Song details here.

2012

1. “Bioluminescence at the Dragon Vent,” by Squid Pro Crow, based on “Exotic creatures discovered living at deep-sea vent in Indian Ocean”, Guardian, 28 Dec 2011.
   Song details here.
2. “Antarctica Awakes!”, by grant, based on “Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake”, Washington Post, 31 Jan 2012.
   Song details here.
3. “Back into flow,” 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.
4. “Inside the Box,” by grant, based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature, “A Mad Hemorrhage” blog, 2 Apr 2012.
   Song details here.
5. “This Stupid War,” by grant, based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes: study”, AFP, via Yahoo!News, 30 Apr 2012.
   Song details here.
6. “Tired (A Neanderthal Complains),” by grant, based on “Neanderthals may have been first human species to create cave paintings”, Guardian, 14 June 2012.
   Song details here.
7. “National Primate Home” by grant, based on “Call for NIH research chimpanzees to be retired”, Nature, 6 July 2012.
   Song details here.
8. “Hi There! (We’re Robots From Earth)” 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.
9. “Particle” by grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi), based on “How Fungi Create the Amazon’s Clouds”, Time, 5 September 2012.
   Song details here.
10. “Is There A Light?” by grant, based on “New Planet Is Closest Yet: Earth-Size Lava World a Space ‘Landmark'”, National Geographic, 17 October 2012.
    Song details here.
11. “Cloudbusting”(a penitential cover), 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.
12. “Complicated Man.”, by grant, based on “New carnivorous harp sponge discovered in deep sea”, Nature, 9 November 2012.
    Song details here.
13. “Starts Beating”, 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.
14. “Mesopotamia” (penitential B52s cover) by grant, originally by the B52s.
    Song details here.

2011

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

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” (penitential cover) by grant. Originally by The Hanson Brothers.
   Song details here.
3. “Staring” by grant. Based on “Body of Sea Urchin is One Big Eye,” LiveScience, 28 Dec 2009.
   Song details here.
4. “The Stick That Never Strikes the Snare” by grant, based on “Scientists supersize quantum mechanics,” Nature , 17 March 2010.
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5. “Aquarium” (penitential cover) by grant. Originally by Robyn Hitchcock.
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6. “Mexican Coke”, 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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7. “Golden Record” 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.
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8. “Crocodile Surf”, by grant, based on “Crocodiles go with the flow”, Nature, 7 June 2010.
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9. “nobody else can hear” by grant, based on “Super squid sex organ discovered”, BBC News, 7 July 2010.
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10. “Rising Like the Sun” by grant, based on “Antidepressants in water cause shrimps to ‘swim towards the light'”, BBC News, 7 July 2010.
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11. “The Imperial Worm”, by grant, based on “Warrior Worms Swallow Enemies Whole”, Discovery News, 14 September 10.
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12. “Run Straight Down” (penitential cover) by grant. Originally by Warren Zevon.
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13. “Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)” 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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14. “Beyond the Ends of the Earth” by grant, based on “100 Year Starship: Nasa’s plan to colonise galaxy”, The First Post, 27 October 10.
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15. “Planet of Diamonds” 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

1. “Iguana Rosada” by grant, based on “Rare, Storied Pink Iguana Discovered”, Popular Science, 5 Jan 2009.
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2. “Army Ants” (penitential cover), 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.
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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?” (penitential cover), 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.
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13. “A Strong Enough Lie” by grant, based on “Vanished Persian army said found in desert”, Discovery News, 9 Nov 2009.
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14. “Dear Winter” by grant, based on “Humans Have Hidden Sensory System”, LiveScience (via Yahoo! News), 8 Dec 2009.
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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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