A lot of nerdy music, and especially nerdcore hip-hop, focuses on consumer-based traits of geeks and nerds like science fiction movies and video games. Some, like my friend Steve Rush (whom you know as funky49) have included science in their music. (His Rapbassador album deserves its own post here.) But I think this is the first time I’ve seen anyone effectively put music into science instead of the other way around.

There are, so far, only two videos available at symphonyofscience.com, but they are devastating works and if we’re lucky there are more to come.

As noted on the site, Sagan’s landmark series, Cosmos, is available on Hulu. You know what to do.

OK? No, not really. I couldn’t get halfway through that. Not even close. I’ve never been a Star Trek fan, but I can understand it. I cannot understand the Klingon immersion thing. The costumes and the speech… I just don’t get it. This is not nerdy, it’s just lame.

Now, topical in message and contrasting in quality, we have this:

Ahhh… that’s more like it. Alright, back to whatever you were doing.