Sci-Pop: Latest Singles
By Neal Anthwal
If there's one thing we love (I say "we love", but I mean "I love") it's science cropping up in "the arts" and "popular culture", whatever those words actually mean. Starting this week we'll (I say "we'll"...) be compiling a list of any sciencey things, no matter how tenuous, in any newly released UK singles.What with the iTunes-led death of the music single being heralded by all the trend watchers, it just goes to show that I'm once again on the cutting edge of the Zeitgeist of UK popular culture music scene...
From Yesterday by 30 Seconds to Mars
Science? To get to Mars in thirty seconds would involve you travelling at least 1,900,000,000 metres per second, assuming you take a straight line when Mars it at its closest to Earth, which is around 57 million kilometres away. This, black-hearted physicists tell us, is impossible as it exceeds the speed of light (299,792,458 metres per second).
How does it sound? Awful.
How Do I Breath? by Mario
Science? "How", silver-voiced Mario asks, "do I breath?". Who'd have thought that behind that smooth RnB front, Mario is an inquiring soul crying out for knowledge about human physiology. Well Mario, contraction of the diaphragm pulls the abdomen downward, there by increasing the volume of the ribcage. The resulting negative pressure gradient pulls air into the lungs where it oxygenates the blood via the alveoli of the lungs. Relaxation of the diaphragm makes the thorax small, forcing the air back out the respiratory tract. So now you know my velvet-tongued friend.
How does it sound? Virtually unlistenable.
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