My friend suzi, the avid reader and all round intellectual geek...she sucks down books and magazines, including the New yorker and chili magazine.. you know the type.. Mensa eligible but not antisocial... an educator and writer and with a sense of humor..
she loves popular culture but has no TV..(man, how will she ever know which Iron Chef is which or which Nanny, gets called in to deal with the Dickson's grief) she has to read about stuff on Salon Premium... living in oregon or iowa doesnt help but even so she is keen on Ave Q's latest review and why i should see the Galaxy sci-fi movie
she listens to NPR and reads everything she can get her hands on.. including the NY times..
when she sees the online times today.. she will see her mating call has made it to the science section..
she reports that her favorite mating call is to SING Particle man to her unsuspecting victims... like the mating routine of certain animals species..
maybe TLC or Animal Planet or Discovery or Nature would be interested a segment on How and why Particle Man works as a mating call..
is it the hormones or her loverly voice..?
maybe an academy winning short...on Particle MAN the mating song..
sing on suzi.....
When You Wish Upon an Atom: The Songs of Science
By MICHAEL ERARD
Published: May 17, 2005
Rock music, even of the indie persuasion, tends to avoid science. The Pixies have a song about Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, builder of the Eiffel Tower, and the celebrated geekiness of They Might Be Giants produced "Particle Man" ("Particle man, particle man/doing the things a particle can") and "The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas," among other science-y songs. And the folk-pop duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle made chemistry a metaphor for romance in "NaCl" ("Just a little atom of chlorine, valence minus one/Swimming through the sea, digging the scene, just having fun"). Scientific themes probably show up more often in music videos, as in Thomas Dolby's 1980's hit, "Blinded by Science."
