{"id":344,"date":"2007-07-03T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T13:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2008-02-03T00:34:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T04:34:51","slug":"top-science-pop-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Top Science Pop Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>New Scientist<\/I> Magazine is asking its readers to help compile a list of the top ten pop songs about science.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the threat of nuclear war: &#8220;You&#8217;d better watch out, you&#8217;d better beware, Albert says that E equals MC squared&#8221;; to the wonder of heterosexual love: &#8220;XX XY, That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s you and me. Your blood is red, It&#8217;s beautiful genetic love &#8230; I need your DNA&#8221;, the pop song reaches places other science fears to tread &#8211; namely, the intimate headspace of a brooding teen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>Happening to be in possession of a brooding teen, I believe I can speak with some authority when I say that <I>New Scientist<\/I> has its work cut out for it.<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blog\/shortsharpscience\/2007\/06\/top-10-science-pop-songs.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist Magazine is asking its readers to help compile a list of the top ten pop songs about science. From the threat of nuclear war: &#8220;You&#8217;d better watch out, you&#8217;d better beware, Albert says that E equals MC squared&#8221;; to the wonder of heterosexual love: &#8220;XX XY, That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s you and me. Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}