There’s a lot of great music out there. I’ve had the good fortune to be part of a few bands, on and off, in my life, exposing me to some pretty music-saavy folks. I am largely grateful for the exposure to all kinds of music this has given me, crossing from Balinese gamelan to Chinese punk rock. Sometimes, science turns up in the oddest places in these genres. For instance, take Coldplay – their song, “The Scientist”, got me through the latter stages of my thesis.<\/p>\n
\n Questions of science, Science and progress, Do not speak as loud as my heart<\/p>\n Tell me you love me, Come back to haunt me, Oh when I rush to the start<\/p>\n Runnin’ in circles, Chasin’ our tails, Comin’ back as we are<\/p>\n Nobody said it was easy<\/p>\n Aww It’s such a shame for us to part<\/p>\n Nobody said it was easy<\/p>\n No one ever said it would be so hard<\/p>\n I’m goin’ back to the start \nThen there is my recent exploration of the band “Fountains of Wayne”. They had a song that immediately caught my attention: “Supercollider”. It’s not quite what I thought, but I do like the recurring image in the chorus:<\/p>\n \n When you go<\/p>\n Out of the blackness<\/p>\n Into the great big sky<\/p>\n Supercollider<\/p>\n Shooting inside your mind \nPerhaps nobody put it quite as directly as Rush, in their song “Natural Science”:<\/p>\n \n Must also be tamed<\/p>\n With a view towards its preservation<\/p>\n Given the same<\/p>\n State of integrity<\/p>\n It will surely serve us well<\/p>\n \nArt as expression –<\/p>\n Not as market campaigns<\/p>\n Will still capture our imaginations<\/p>\n Given the same<\/p>\n State of integrity<\/p>\n It will surely help us along<\/p>\n \nThe most endangered species –<\/p>\n The honest man<\/p>\n Will still survive annihilation<\/p>\n Forming a world –<\/p>\n State of integrity<\/p>\n Sensitive, open, and strong There’s a lot of great music out there. I’ve had the good fortune to be part of a few bands, on and off, in my life, exposing me to some pretty music-saavy folks. I am largely grateful for the exposure to all kinds of music this has given me, crossing from Balinese gamelan to Chinese […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI was just guessin’, At numbers and figures, Pullin’ the puzzles apart<\/p>\n
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\nYou never know what you will find<\/p>\n
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\nScience, like nature<\/p>\n
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