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.
posted by briank 17 years ago
  • ::crackle pop::Whaattt iisss the milky waaaayy... So awesome
  • Hee hee *sings along* The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace!
  • about 93 million miles away... and that's why it looks soooo small....
  • *bookmarks for burgeoning DJ career*
  • 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!
  • HAD kittens -- those pics are from 2004. Now he just has cats.
  • Neat find, briank!
  • 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."