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Jonathan Chase — degree holder in Aerospace Engineering, among other things — has written a Dr- Alban-esque rap song about astrobiology. And he pulls it off, too.
{Also: the Large Hadron Collider rap song}

Still freaked out by what the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider actually does? Here’s the dance-able, cavortable, hump-a-dead-tree-able “Large Hadron Collider” rap song to delightfully explain it all to you in plain English. Lyrics included.

You don’t remember the album, the artist’s name barely registers, but say these song titles and you instantly snap, “You go, girlfriend!” to the hulky gym instructor. These songs just bring those magic moments.

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A 1920s dance kraze, the Charleston, to the tune of Daft Punk’s “Around the World.” Somebody must have seen the future.

Just when you thought Natalie Portman [and her nips] couldn’t possibly go hotter, she does this.
From Devendra Banhart’s “Carmensita.”
And while you’re at it, you can download here a better MP3 file of “Carmensita.”

Up-and-coming band Science Vs. Witchcraft is releasing an EP called It’s Not Necrophilia If You’re Dead, Too, packaged in a way reminiscent of a 1980’s PC game. Note that we actually used the word “reminiscent.”
Nevertheless! Pop the music CD into any computer and you’ll find a text-based adventure game written by a band member and [...]

Some dude got tired of playing Call of Duty, so he gathers all those mind-numbing gun shots into a lullaby.

“Stand by your ham,” the new pop sensation. Soon to be a hit among blow-job-loving cops, politicians with a passion for airport urinals, menschy Russian dictators, sodomizing clergy, impossible-to-bother award-winning authors, and the bovine wonders in Howl’s Moving Castle.
Mmmkay, that’s basically everyone who is anyone.