Maths Comedy Double

Well, triple, actually. What the hell, quadruple. Quintuple even. I may be a little bit nerdy, but I still can’t add up.

First up, much obliged to the endless thread at Pharyngula for this clip, in which Abbott and Costello prove the fungibility of numbers:

Just to prove I’m down with the kids, some rap. First, quadratic equations:

Lamar Queen is a rapping 8th grade math teacher in Los Angeles:

Mr Purdy does the Dance of The Parallel Lines:


Why didn’t I ever have maths teachers like those two?

Sing it, nerd girl! Baby got back math:

But let’s not let the Merkins have all the maths glory.

I will derive, hey hey…wish he’d done it in the sparkly boobtube and rollerskates, though:


Go Aussies, with Pythagoras’ Theorem, TTTO Waltzing Matilda:

Bonus podcast link:

From the Mark Steel Lecture Series on the BBC here’s his lecture on Isaac Newton. 30 minutes of sciencey hilariousness.

Rare Isotopes, The Future of Hiphop

Oh no. Not more physics rapping. Where will it all end?

She’s baaack! AlpineKat (a.k.a., Kate MacAlpine), that is, who gave us the Large Hadron Rap last year — currently viewed by over 5 million people on YouTube, and still counting. This time, she busts a rhyme over the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a new project of the DOE being bult at Michigan State University in East Lansing. MSU hosted an event this past week to celebrate the future of rare isotope research, and AlpineKat was on hand to debut her new rap in full HD version: three elevated screens 14 feet across, augmented by a cutting-edge sound system.

Via Twisted Physics