Geek Pop

Look at that! It’s a man wakeboarding with magnesium flares! What a dude!

For more stuff about magnesium, boron and indeed a number of other elements, dive into our Christmas “chemistry” themed podcast, which despite our best efforts actually turned out to be more about the things we hated at school (ahem, the nitrogen cycle), suicide, the water content of pensioners and mince pies. With some chemistry jokes thrown in for good measure. Thanks to Chemistry World and Jim’s podcasting students, Jean and Leo, for their contributions.

December’s Spotify list has a few extra chemically-oriented tracks, including the rather wonderful Oxygen by Willy Mason. This is the bumper Spotify list for the Geek Pop podcast, featuring all the songs (well, all the not-ridiculously-obscure ones) we’ve played. And December’s download links are below. Happy Christmas one and all!

Rapping the Elements - Oort Kuiper (YouTube link)

Carbon Monoxide - Regina Spektor

Water Leaking, Water Moving - Jeffrey Lewis

Nitrogen Cycle - Amy Bronson

FULL PLAY: Chemistry Set - Peter and the Wolf

OH AND! You’ll need this spurious link for the Geek Poll.

<a href=”http://polldaddy.com/poll/5761160/” mce_href=”http://polldaddy.com/poll/5761160/”>GEEK POLL: How much of you is water? (Use spurious link above to calculate)</a>

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