{"id":427,"date":"2012-09-07T12:25:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T10:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/?p=427"},"modified":"2012-09-10T12:34:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T10:34:52","slug":"a-new-really-old-version-of-the-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2012\/09\/07\/a-new-really-old-version-of-the-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"A new really old version of The Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you&#8217;re all fans out Tom Lehrer (&#8220;Mr. Lehrer&#8217;s muse [is] not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.&#8221; &#8211; NYT, apparently). Well, via those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/2012\/09\/03\/rediscovered-double-tom-lehrer-performance-of-the-elements\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ImprobableResearch+%28Improbable+Research%29\">Improbable Research<\/a> (&#8220;Mr. Abraham&#8217;s muse [is] not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.&#8221; &#8211; NYT, possibly) comes a new old version of Lehrer&#8217;s classic <i>The Elements<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AcS3NOQnsQM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The lyrics are below the fold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s Sb, As, Al, Se,<br \/>\n&#038; H &#038; O &#038; N &#038; Re,<br \/>\n&#038; Ni, Nd, Np, Ge,<br \/>\n&#038; Fe, Am, Ru, U,<br \/>\nEu, Zr, Lu, V,<br \/>\n&#038; L<strike>s<\/strike>a &#038; Os &#038; At &#038; Ra,<br \/>\n&#038; Au &#038; Pa &#038; In &#038; Ga,<br \/>\n<Gallium_Sulphur-Phosphate><br \/>\n&#038; I &#038; Th &#038; Tm &#038; Tl.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s Y Yb, Ac Rb,<br \/>\n&#038; B, Gd, Nb, Ir,<br \/>\n&#038; Sr &#038; Si &#038; Ag &#038; Sm,<br \/>\n&#038; Bi, Br, Li, Be, &#038; Ba.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s Ho &#038; He &#038; Hf &#038; Er,<br \/>\n&#038; P &#038; Fr &#038; Fl &#038; Tb,<br \/>\n&#038; Mn &#038; Hg, Mo, Mg,<br \/>\nDy &#038; Sc &#038; Ce &#038; Cs.<br \/>\nAnd Pb, Pr, and Pt, Pu,<br \/>\nPd, Pm, K, Po,<br \/>\n&#038; Ta, tc, Ti, te,<br \/>\n<gasp><br \/>\nAnd Cd and Ca and Cr and Cm.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s S, Cf, &#038; Fm, Bk,<br \/>\n&#038; also Md, Es, No,<br \/>\n&#038; Ar, Kr, Ne, Rn, Xe, Zn, &#038; Rh,<br \/>\n&#038; Cl, C, Co, Cu, W, Sn, &#038; Na.<\/p>\n<p>These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,<br \/>\nAnd there may be many others, but they haven&#8217;t been discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you&#8217;re all fans out Tom Lehrer (&#8220;Mr. Lehrer&#8217;s muse [is] not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.&#8221; &#8211; NYT, apparently). Well, via those Improbable Research (&#8220;Mr. Abraham&#8217;s muse [is] not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2012\/09\/07\/a-new-really-old-version-of-the-elements\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}