{"id":3222,"date":"2009-10-27T07:29:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T11:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2009-10-22T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T19:34:32","slug":"darwin-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3222","title":{"rendered":"Darwin: The Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Composer and Songwriter David Haines loves science so much that he&#8217;s created a musical called <i>Tremendous Journey<\/i> to celebrate it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concert will feature 15 songs about the science of life and evolution. It&#8217;s a shorter version of my &#8220;science oratorio&#8221;, <em>Lifetime<\/em>. We open with a song called <em>Mr Darwin<\/em>, which tells the story of his historic voyage aboard the Beagle. Then there is <em>Selfish Gene<\/em>, a song referring to Richard Dawkins&#8217;s work, and <em>Living Light<\/em>, <em>Queen Bee<\/em>, <em>Bacteria<\/em> and <em>Taxonomy<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s &#8220;Mr. Darwin:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mj76I_TB-dk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mj76I_TB-dk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20427306.800-david-haines-love-songs-to-science.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news\">New Scientist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/\">Discoblog<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer and Songwriter David Haines loves science so much that he&#8217;s created a musical called Tremendous Journey to celebrate it. The concert will feature 15 songs about the science of life and evolution. It&#8217;s a shorter version of my &#8220;science oratorio&#8221;, Lifetime. We open with a song called Mr Darwin, which tells the story of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}