This is the last of the January interview snippets, which I kept forgetting to upload. It’s Cameron Neylon, talking about how he almost studied music instead of science. I first found out about Cameron’s connection to music to this old blog post of his, but managed to not make the connection when I met him for the first time a few months after that. Much later (after I had run into him twice at science communication events) I found that bookmarked blog post again and put two and two together.
On May 24th, physicist and jazz singer Diane Nalini released her CD “Kiss Me Like That” at Hugh’s Room in Toronto.
The theme of the entire CD is astronomy, and all songs are somehow related to the stars or the moon. But the title track is the geekiest one: To remember the order of stars and brown dwarfs, indicated as OBAFGKMLT, astronomy students often learn a mnemonic “Oh, be a fine girl, kiss me like that”. Diane turned this mnemonic about stars into a song about human relationships. It’s a great tune regardless of the origins of the refrain, but the science background just makes it slightly more awesome…
