Bench Press » They Might Be Giants http://blog.benchside.com The Crossroads of Science and Tech Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:00:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Meet the Elements http://blog.benchside.com/2009/09/meet-the-elements/ http://blog.benchside.com/2009/09/meet-the-elements/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:00:27 +0000 ben http://blog.benchside.com/?p=1019 One of my favorite bands is They Might Be Giants, famous for quirky songs including one of my science-related favorites “Why Does the Sun Shine?” with the amazing line which caught my interest immediately when I first heard it:

“The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace! Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees”

It is with great pleasure that I stumbled on (courtesy of Mr. Gunn’s FriendFeed) one of their latest creations, “Meet the Elements” which I have embedded below for your enjoyment:

Awesome!

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