I recently saw this quite funny flash animation. It consisted of Dimitri Mendeleev’s (at least according to my science teacher, upon whose computer I first saw this flash animation) head, singing a song that listed the elements of the pereodic table, in alpahbetical order. The element names were said quite fast, and like they were part of a song. The animation ended with something like “these are the only ones that news about has come to Harvard”. Can anyone help me find this?
http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
This isn’t it, is it? I see no Mendeleev’s head…
Wait, there it is. That’s the one.
I am the Googling God.
The song is Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements”, which cracks me up every time I hear it.
I’d just like to note that the above was written before I went to the site and saw that the song was more than adequately credited…
…and that I was going to look like an idiot for stating what was so obvious once one gets to the site…
:smack:
Well, you probably noticed that they’re not in alphabetical order, but also…
The pictures of Mendeleev, Einstein, and Nobel come up when they get to mendelevium, einsteinium, and nobelium, but it’s Nobel’s head, not Mendeleev’s, that sings, “Argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium, chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium”.
I love the fact the animation ends with the elements that have been discovered since the song was written showing up in time to the “shave and a haircut” finish.