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Straight Outta Michigan: The Return of Physics Rap
from New Scientist
It's nine months since the Large Hadron Collider lurched into life, sent a beam of protons whizzing through its 27-kilometer-long tunnel for just over a week - and then broke down.
Although the episode was a setback for the physics facility, it didn't stand in the way of the successful Large Hadron Rap, which appeared on virtually every news and science site at the time.
So when Michigan State University announced late last year that it would be building a new particle accelerator in East Lansing, Michigan, the physicists there asked Kate McAlpine, aka Alpinekat, to mark the occasion with a rap. Clink on headline link to watch the new Rare Isotope Rap.
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