Science Sing-Alongs: Higg Boson vs Google Periodic Table

If the 2008 Large Hadron Collider rap didn't appeal to your musical sensibilities, you might try two science songs now making the internets rounds. The first isn't really new at all: Joe Sabia has employed Google Instant for a pastiche based on Tom Lehrer's 1959 Elements Song, which in turn parodied Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 Major General's Song. [via Boing Boing] Returning to the Large Hadron Collider, CERN's control center has hosted a sing-along. What's especially enjoyable about this parody of Flanders and Swann's The Hippopotamus Song are the physicists working in the background. See twelve seconds in--when one guy appears to do a face plant onto his desk. [via The Inverse Square] Not satisfied? Stay tuned for a hip-hop neuro-rap and Dr. Dre's forthcoming space-themed album, called The Planets. Related content: Discoblog: I Swear: Subatomic Particles Are Singing to Me! Discoblog: The Mother of all Rube Goldberg Machines! Discoblog: The OK Go Video: Playing With the Speed of Time Discoblog: Higgs Physicists’ Plan for Winning a Nobel Prize, Step 1: Stay Alive