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The November Playlist has a loose time travel theme - if you ignore half of it, that is… Hayley and Jim get to grips with loneliness, flux capacitors and warp drives. And Jim still isn’t done with his aluminum/aluminIUM rant… Just don’t encourage him. You can find the tracks from this Playlist on Spotify (sorry, no Time Travel is Lonely on Spotify).

Aluminum - Barenaked Ladies

The Time Warp - Richard O’Brien “et al”

Time Travel is Lonely - John Vanderslice

Flux - Bloc Party

Planned Obsolescence - 10,000 Maniacs

Use the comment box, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs.

Thanks to Intercontinental Music Lab for their awesome intro and outro music, taken from Probe II’s Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

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This month, our Playlist prompts discussion of a random collection of weird and wonderful things, including spaghettification, strangeness, supernovas… and pagophagia. (Yet again, Hayley is unable to read her own writing and calls it “papophagia”). You can also find this Playlist on Spotify (sorry, no Black Hole on Spotify, apparently).

Electron Blue - R.E.M.

Quark, Strangeness and Charm - Hawkwind

Black Hole - Aqualung

Addicted to Love -Robert Palmer

Science is Golden - The Grates [check out the “kooky” video]

Use the comment box, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs.

Thanks to Intercontinental Music Lab for their awesome intro and outro music, taken from Probe II’s Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

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This month it’s all drugs and rock and roll (and space), as we discuss cocaine and Betelgeuse. Listen to the Playlist picks, then follow the links from the blog to find your favourite sci-pop tunes. You can also find this Playlist on Spotify.

Rest My Chemistry - Interpol

Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine - The White Stripes

Far Out - Blur

Science is Real - They Might Be Giants

Intergalactic - Beastie Boys

Use the comment box, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs.

Thanks to Intercontinental Music Lab for their awesome intro and outro music, taken from Probe II’s Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

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Listen to this month’s playlist picks, then follow the links from the blog to find your favourite sci-pop tunes:

Our Velocity - Maximo Park

In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans [check out their awesome sixties fashions]

Oh, Larsen B - British Sea Power

Ecology - Anni Rossi

Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes

You can also find this Playlist on Spotify.

Use the comment box, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs.

Thanks to Intercontinental Music Lab for their awesome intro and outro music, taken from Probe II’s Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

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Once you’ve listened to us rambling about this month’s playlist picks, follow the links from the blog to find music tracks from the podcast:

Race for the Prize - Flaming Lips

She Blinded Me with Science - Thomas Dolby

Dinosaurs - Bonobo

Laika - Intercontinental Music Lab

Eclipse - Pink Floyd

Use the comment box, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs.

Thanks to Intercontinental Music Lab for their wonderful intro and outro music, which is taken from Probe II’s Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

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We’re not the only ones mad enough to make music about science! As proof, we present music and chat from University of Wisconsin-Madison social scientists Andy Isham and Bret Shaw, who are on a mission to stop the spread of fish disease. Excuse the dodgy phone link up to the States and enjoy the tunes.

Follow the link to the Wisconsin-Madison music website here, or if you’re reading this in iTunes, type “aquatic invasive species songs” into Google.

Andy Isham is also guitarist and vocalist for The Treats.  Check out their web page at www.thetreats.net or order their latest album at CD Baby.

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Having launched our virtual festival this year, we geeks thought we would head off to a real world festival and find out what was going down.  So on Saturday we set off (before dawn) for the Cambridge Science Festival in… er… Cambridge.  Check out the podcast, which includes an interview with numbers whizz Carol Vorderman and an acoustic set with Geek Poppers Intercontinental Music Lab.

And the festival runs until 22nd so there’s still time…

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Well, here it is. It’s what you’ve all been waiting for… all your favourite sci-pop bands in one virtual field, ahem. And these are our highlights.

Your host for the festival podcast is Vicky, who is joined at Geek Pop by roving reporters Hayley and Jim, bringing you all the fun from around the festival.

To download individual tracks, run along to the festival site at www.geekpop.co.uk, where you can browse by stage and artist. And there’s a lot more going on than we could cover in one podcast!

Enjoy!

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Geek Pop audio is hosted here. You’ll find the ‘08 festival site at Null Hypothesis, but you can click on the media player below to hear full performances. (Or click on individual performances in the posts below).

Geek Pop ‘08 is a celebration of sci-pop music, featuring songs from Amateur Transplants, Jonny Berliner, Let’s Tea Party, Professor Science and Tales from the Birdbath. Listen and let your inner geek shine through.

Geek Pop artwork by Sam Church.

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