{"id":2924,"date":"2009-10-09T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2009-10-09T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:03:11","slug":"the-dark-energy-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/09\/the-dark-energy-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Energy Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday!  And my promised bloggy content-providing hasn&#8217;t really materialized.  Someone has to write those letters of recommendation, and my students weren&#8217;t impressed by my pleas that there was blogging to be done.<\/p>\n<p>But I gave a colloquium yesterday at Caltech, and afterwards one of the folks who came to dinner was <a href=\"http:\/\/virgo.physics.ucdavis.edu\/~knox\/\">Lloyd Knox<\/a>, an old friend and a cosmologist at UC Davis.  Talk naturally turned to his most well-known work:  the Dark Energy Song, sung to his class and (inevitably) captured to video and posted to YouTube by a quick-thinking student.  But to my surprise, it only has about 1,000 views!  Surely we can help bring this masterpiece to a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p>Note that musical\/lyrical critiques by people who have not demonstrated bravery by putting their own performances on YouTube will be derided as acts of base cowardice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday! And my promised bloggy content-providing hasn&#8217;t really materialized. Someone has to write those letters of recommendation, and my students weren&#8217;t impressed by my pleas that there was blogging to be done. But I gave a colloquium yesterday at Caltech, and afterwards one of the folks who came to dinner was Lloyd Knox, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-science-and-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}