August 22, 2007
1950s Science Records For Kids
I'm sure some of you monkeys will be magically transported back to your childhood by these recordings from a series of children's albums about topics in science -- Space (naturally), Weather, Energy, and Nature.
All the MP3s are directly encoded from the records and include the hiss-and-pop noise that those of us over the age of 25 will immediately recognize. Listen and see if you don't feel a twinge of nostalgia for the simpler days of growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Or, if you're a bit younger than that, you might listen for the influences on contemporary artists like They Might Be Giants, PeeWee Herman, and other retro-obsessed culture.
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::crackle pop::Whaattt iisss the milky waaaayy... So awesome
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Hee hee *sings along* The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace!
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about 93 million miles away... and that's why it looks soooo small....
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*bookmarks for burgeoning DJ career*
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A shooting star, a shooting star, is not a star at all, A shooting star's a meteor that's headed for a fall! Beautiful! I've forwarded this along to some science teacher friends; I'll let you know if any of them use 'em!
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And he has K I T T E N S !
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HAD kittens -- those pics are from 2004. Now he just has cats.
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Neat find, briank!
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Religious fundamentalists might benefit from a quick listen to "It's A Scientific Fact" (off the first album). I, meanwhile, am seriously grooving to "Constellations Jig."