Enjoy!
To cheer you up in difficult times here are songs by Sabine Hossenfelder and by Tom Lehrer. I like the music and lyrics and the unusual combination of science, humor and satire.
Sabine Hossenfelder : Outer space*
Tom Lehrer: That’s mathematics
Sabine Hossenfelder: Theories of everything
Tom Lehrer: Lobachevsky
Sabine Hossenfelder: Schrödinger Cat (The song follows by a physics explanation).
Tom Lehrer: The Professor’s Song (2:55 there is delta for every epsilon)
Sabine Hossenfelder: Ave Maria
Tom Lehrer: The Vatican Rag
Sabine Hossenfelder: Ivory Tower
Tom Lehrer: Elements
Sabine Hossenfelder: Not a Toy
Tom Lehrer The Hunting Song
Sabine Hossenfelder: A Million Miles
Tom Lehrer: Pollution
Sabine Hossenfelder: This is how I pray
Tom Lehrer: Wernher von Braun
Sabine Hossenfelder: Galaxy Song, Monty Python (cover)
Tom Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
Sabine: Catching light
Tom: National brotherhood week
On GLL: Sabine Hossenfelder is featured in this post, and is also mentioned here; Tom Lehrer is featured in this post and this one and is also mentioned here.
Playlists: Tom Lehrer; Sabine Hossenfelder.
Sabine Hossenfelder (left) Tom Lehrer (right)
*”Outer space” is a famous mathematical concept as well.
OK, two more; timely:
Tom Lehrer: I got it from Agnes
Sabine Hossenfelder and Tim Palmer: It’s the end of the world as we know it (coronavirus edition) [after R.E.M]
Barry Simon wrote over FB: I have a favorite Tom Lehrer story. In graduate school, his TW^3 record came out and the last two songs were Wehner von Braun and the Vaitcan rag. I played it for some other in my dorm, one of whom was a religious catholic. When the vatican rag ended, he remarked: “I guess I know how Werner von Braun must feel.”
You can find all songs of Tom Lehrer here. https://tomlehrersongs.com/. Lehrer gracefully agreed to move them all to the public domain!
Richard Palais wrote on FB: “My strong admiration for Lehrer goes really way back. He was my section man in my first math class as a Harvard freshman (in 1949!) and I attended the “Physical Revue” several years later at which Lobachevsky and The Elements were introduced—-and later we were colleagues the two years I spent at UCSC. Of course this latest gift only adds to my admiration, but I cannot say I am surprised. He is one of the truly great people of our era!” Bob Palais commented: “Here is the Physical Revue page: http://ww3.haverford.edu/physics…/songs/lehrer/physrev.htm Daniel Radcliffe agrees with you “Tom Lehrer is the cleverest and funniest man of the 20th century” (and so do I): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSAaiYKF0cs “