If only Paul and Art were this good with Lyrics!
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If, like me, you grew up in the U.S.
The results are in for last week's Casual Fridays study, and the findings are ... uncertain. The task was to try to parse out the lyrics of two songs.
It's Labor Day, the kids are home from school, and Greta has to work (why is it that only professors and manual laborers work on Labor Day?), so I hope you're not expecting to see much serious thinking on CogDaily today.
Fantastic lyrics. The voices could be better, but I thoroughly enjoyed this.
OT, but there should be some mention somewhere that French physicist Nobel Prize winner, Georges Charpak, died yesterday at 86. Not only was he a first rate scientist, he was often on television and in the press explaining science. He was a very eloquent speaker for science.
He also started a primary school program "mains à la pâte"(literally, "hands in the dough"), to teach young students about the wonders of science. Apparently a third of French school children have participated in his program.
Hats off.
See also: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/11/chumbawamba_drinks_a_toast_t…