2010-04-02
This song was written for the This Week In Science podcast which is a weekly science show hosted by Kirsten Sanford- or Dr. Kiki as she's known online- and Justin Jackson. The show is broadcast out of KDVS in California, which is a non-profit college radio station. As many non-profit stations do they hold a fund raiser every year to cover the operating costs of the station. To help with the fund raiser This Week In Science puts together a compilation CD of science related songs and gives it away to people who pledge a certain amount of money to the station. This is my submission for this year's compilation. World Robot Domination was included on the 2007 TWIS compilation.
At the beginning of each show Justin does a disclaimer so that the station isn't liable if someone gets offended by any of the science news being presented. I always found it odd that science is the quests for truth and knowledge and yet it has to have a disclaimer. That, plus the fact that people tend to take the words of scientists and twist them around and manipulate them to serve their own agenda provided the inspiration for this song. In fact I I did that very thing with this song using Justin's own disclaimers.
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filkertom - Apr 2, 2010
Bwahahaha! "TIMMY! [wham] This is SCIENCE! Not a BROUHAHA!"
lukeski - Apr 2, 2010
Is it a brouhaha? "No." A bong? - Awesome song, Devo! :D
stevegoodie - Apr 2, 2010
Most awesome! I salute you, and I also refer you to my own disclaimer!
JonnySpazzAlt - Apr 3, 2010
Good song. Loved the sentence-splicing ("The Earth is an annoying thing" XD). Backing track reminds me of "Cellular Degeneration"
MarissaGoldmark - Apr 6, 2010
Awesome song! I love TWiS. :)
TechnoPoet - Jul 18, 2010
I've been listening to this song on repeat on my iTunes for a bit now. :D My favorite part of the song is the Stephen Hawking bit. Ha. Ha. Ha. >D
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Insane Ian - Apr 2, 2010
Awesome.