Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Song of the Geological Lecturer (Intended for the use of Cambridge Professors)

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Geology’s a noble thing To teach in Alma Mater, So straight I will proceed to sing The earth and all its strata. Of peat and chalk I’ve much...
Monday, 26 January 2009

The Elements

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(© 1959, Lehrer Records.) Tune: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,...

"Hail to the IBM" (The IBM Anthem)

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Lift up our proud and loyal voices, Sing out in accents strong and true, With hearts and hands to you devoted, And inspiration ever new...

The Grand Darwininan Theory

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(Air: The King of the Cannibal Islands, Allegretto) Oh! have you heard the news of late, About our great original state? If you have not, I...

First and Second Law

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One of the great problems in the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't under...

I'm called an astronomer

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(Tune: "I'm called Little Buttercup") Aria . I'm called an astronomer, skilful astronomer, Though I could neve...

The Scientific Man; or Mrs Crucible's Lamentations. By Robert More.

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Playfully Ah! science is a lovely thing, and shines serenely bright, At least so many poets sing, And they of course are right, An...

The Anglo-Saxon Twins. Connected by the Atlantic Telegraph.

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SUCCESS at last sits, like a crown, Upon our work gigantic; Behold the Telegraph laid down Beneath the broad Atlantic. Yankee doodle, &c...

A thousand ages underground

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Tune: O God Our Help in Ages Past A thousand ages underground, His skeleton had lain, But now his body’s big and round And there’s life in h...

"Ions Mine"

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Air: “Clementine.” I. In the dusty lab’ratory, ‘Mid the coils and wax and twine, There the atoms in their glory Ionise and recombine....