Worst (and Best) Science Rap of the Week

Question: How do you celebrate the culmination of 14 years of work to build the world's largest particle accelerator? Answer: By rapping (and bad dancing.) Yes, the Large Hadron Collider, that 17-mile ring under the Swiss and French Alps, is fast approaching its official launch date a week from tomorrow. And while scientists have been running tests and warming up its accelerators to prepare for the day, something else has been heating up: an online video of a rap about the LHC, created by Kate McAlpine of Michigan State University. The video has been online for at least a month now, but only recently did it become one of the biggest hits on YouTube. It's hard to say just what piece of this magical musical concoction has led to its worldwide popularity. Is it the knowingly awful background dancers, who are credited at the end as "prefer anonymity?" Or maybe ...