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Fishapod stars in music video!

Category: Entertainment • Evolution • Organisms
Posted on: December 12, 2008 10:18 PM, by PZ Myers

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Posted by: afterthought | December 12, 2008 10:26 PM

Very cute.

Posted by: Phaedrus | December 12, 2008 10:27 PM

This was awesome!

Posted by: Alex | December 12, 2008 10:29 PM

Yay. That was tremendous. Outstanding!

Good stuff Maynard!

Posted by: Sastra | December 12, 2008 10:36 PM

Now I know that my Darwinfish can boogie.

Posted by: Craig | December 12, 2008 10:37 PM

Wow! Great! All my students will see that for years to come.
Thanks.

Posted by: Jadehawk | December 12, 2008 10:41 PM

aaah. it's a good time to be a geek :-)

Posted by: Paper Hand | December 12, 2008 10:47 PM

Weird ... cute, but weird. :-)

Tiktaalik really is a neat creature, though. :-)

Posted by: Carlie | December 12, 2008 10:48 PM

Well, it looks like SOMEONE was trying to avoid studying for finals.
Pretty awesome, though.

Posted by: Insightful Ape | December 12, 2008 10:51 PM

Very, very cute.
I am in awe to think my ancestor looked like that!

#10

Posted by: Emmet Caulfield | December 12, 2008 10:53 PM

The musical biogeeks have some way to go to catchup with this musical mathgeek classic. Lest I be accused of bias, I know enough to appreciate 80% of the humour, but I'm not a mathematician.

#11

Posted by: Heidi Anderson | December 12, 2008 10:54 PM

Makes me happy to be alive now, where everyone can express their creativity. Nothing but love for the Indoorfins and Tiktaalik, along with Neil Shubin.

#12

Posted by: Loki | December 12, 2008 11:00 PM

good stuff :)

#13

Posted by: A Mac | December 12, 2008 11:10 PM

I'll have to put that on my ipod

#14

Posted by: yoyo | December 12, 2008 11:10 PM

just sat next to a tertiary educated fundamentalist on a plane, (he even believes in the ark!) so this cheered me up. well done people, well done tiktaalik!

#15

Posted by: Heidi Richter | December 12, 2008 11:14 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkOy1XU0cbY

Also check out this interview with the artist who made that amazing Tiktaalik model (which won which won the 2008 Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize for three-dimensional art!)

#16

Posted by: dave | December 12, 2008 11:15 PM

I dunno, scientists are not really musicians (and vice versa, no doubt). I'll change my mind when I hear a decent Ode to the precambrian, or a maybe a good double slit fantasy in C major.

#17

Posted by: Kassul | December 12, 2008 11:18 PM

It's not really my preferred style of music, but the content of the song, and the video are great.

Saved the video to my HDD, 5 star'd and favourited to hopefully give it a little bit more exposure.

#18

Posted by: Kevin | December 12, 2008 11:26 PM

Fantastic! I finished reading Your Inner Fish (late, very late) last night, so this is a timely treat. Thanks!

#19

Posted by: Rob Davidson | December 12, 2008 11:37 PM

Wonderfully nerdy!

#20

Posted by: JohnnieCanuck | December 12, 2008 11:44 PM

IndoorFins vs. Endorphins. Clever lot, they are.

Time to get out Your Inner Fish and read it again.

#21

Posted by: fly44d | December 12, 2008 11:46 PM

That was very good. Thanks for posting that. Adds to the appreciation of being atheist, the joy of nature and discovery that some can't seem to fathom.

#22

Posted by: wildcardjack | December 12, 2008 11:49 PM

I was wondering if Neil's discovery of Tiktaalik would be sufficient for a Nobel prize. Perhaps either for Physiology or Literature.

People complain that the Nobel prizes lack certain categories, but they have to be forgiven. It's a set of prizes defined by the man's will, not an NGO body.

#23

Posted by: JoshS | December 13, 2008 12:16 AM

Dave, #16 - I'm glad you said that, because I was about to kill myself listening to that one chord drone on forever.

Music aside - OMG. I so must have a tiktaalik pet. I want to scoop him up, snuggle him, kiss his fishy little face, pet him and call him George.

#24

Posted by: alex | December 13, 2008 12:25 AM

Dave: I'll change my mind when I hear a decent Ode to the precambrian, or a maybe a good double slit fantasy in C major.

have you heard David Tudor's "Neural Synthesis". he's no scientist, and the piece is not exactly musical, but the composition/performance is extremely beautiful and disquieting and takes its cue from the workings of the brain.

#25

Posted by: Brock | December 13, 2008 1:03 AM

If you wanna hear Neil Shubin talk about the Tiktaalik discovery, here's a nifty talk (YouTube) he gave at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in October :)

#26

Posted by: Raynfala | December 13, 2008 1:06 AM

Ahhhhh, watching that video made me nostalgic for my alma mater. Locust Walk... Hill House... the many Ben Franklin statues... The Button...

*sighhhhhhh*

Anybody got a cheesesteak on 'em?

#27

Posted by: Rheinhard | December 13, 2008 1:20 AM

Ahm Raynfala, you bear me to almost the exact comment I wanted to make! I especially liked seeing the fishapod on the Button... but they left out the dueling lipsticks/tampons!

But I am curious as to how Penn got in on it in the first place. Is it just because the music group was a Penn club, or is there some other connection between Tiktaalik and Penn that I'm not aware of?

#28

Posted by: Sydney S. | December 13, 2008 1:29 AM

I'm all excited now because I e-mailed this to him. I'm glad it was sufficiently enjoyable for it to make it on here.

#29

Posted by: LUFTRITTER | December 13, 2008 1:33 AM

Great!

That Tiktaalik model is awesome!

#30

Posted by: Sman | December 13, 2008 2:06 AM

...scientists are not really musicians (and vice versa, no doubt).
Ummm...
Brian May

#31

Posted by: SplendidMonkey | December 13, 2008 2:07 AM

Great song - video meh. Anyone that can make a song about science - rocks!

#32

Posted by: Sman | December 13, 2008 2:08 AM

^^^Oops! Tag failure.

#33

Posted by: Bill Dauphin | December 13, 2008 2:40 AM

Need.More.Indoorfins!

PS: Is it just me, or does Neil Shubin's voice sound a little like Tom Lehrer's?

#34

Posted by: S E E Quine | December 13, 2008 3:35 AM

I thought that song would be stuck in my head forever... until I listened to the mathgeek song.

Finite simple set of order two! Arrrgh!

No really, I like both and believe that science culture must get together and festivate, with songs and food and jokes and stuff that all stem from science and science references!

#35

Posted by: RickrOll | December 13, 2008 4:09 AM

annoying, or awesome? Note: number
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27OQfd_Sq4c&

#36

Posted by: RickrOll | December 13, 2008 4:26 AM

And also this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAEQuE-ygjA
Neat movie by the way.
Not accurate, but trippy. Low budget. Indie super-monochrome. Good style, something which i feel to be completely unique. But i may be wrong in this.

#37

Posted by: Cruithne | December 13, 2008 5:52 AM

Pshaww and fooey to all you skeptics who don't think science and rock music go together.

I give you Mandelbrot Set by Jonathon Coulton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlwFpz9s_I

#38

Posted by: Sili | December 13, 2008 7:11 AM

1) I love the pun.

2) Am I the only one to think that Shubin could make a small fortune selling tik-tik-tik-tik-tik-Tiktaalik plushies?

#39

Posted by: Julie K | December 13, 2008 9:27 AM

Very cute and I would certainly buy a Tiktaalik plushie.

Oh, and be sure to check out Ray Troll's Devonian Blues:
http://www.trollart.com/sound/devonianblues/index.html

#40

Posted by: Raynfala | December 13, 2008 10:26 AM

@27:

OMG! The Dueling Tampons! I almost forgot about those!

The only thing missing from that video is a shot of the Tiktaalik trying to get into Smoke's.

#41

Posted by: Sclerophanax | December 13, 2008 10:30 AM

http://www.trollart.com/sound/devonianblues/index.html

What a perfect thing to say to a creotard spouting the usual 'I'm no kin to a monkey'-tripe: Your momma was a lobefinned fish!

#42

Posted by: mothra | December 13, 2008 10:43 AM

Now I see why Ichthyostega never got a video.

#43

Posted by: Dave Godfrey | December 13, 2008 10:47 AM

While he isn't a scientist, the comedian Mitch Benn often writes satirical songs about scientific news stories. The song "Gecko Man" was inspired by news that a super-adhesive polymer had been developed from gecko feet and could be used to develop a working spider-man suit. Unfortunately quite a few of them don't get broadcast because most people don't get all the jokes.

#44

Posted by: ginny | December 13, 2008 11:59 AM

Plushie?? DO WANT

#45

Posted by: Mikayla | December 13, 2008 12:26 PM

The Indoorfins. LOL

#46

Posted by: Form&Function | December 13, 2008 12:27 PM

But I am curious as to how Penn got in on it in the first place. Is it just because the music group was a Penn club, or is there some other connection between Tiktaalik and Penn that I'm not aware of?

Your Inner Fish was the chosen text for the Penn Reading project.

#47

Posted by: Patricia, OM | December 13, 2008 12:53 PM

Nice!

#48

Posted by: C. M. Baxter | December 13, 2008 1:05 PM

I wonder if the real Tiktaalik ever dreamt that...Oh never mind.

#49

Posted by: Emmet Caulfield | December 13, 2008 1:07 PM

Finite simple set of order two! Arrrgh!

Finite simple group of order two.

</pedant>

#50

Posted by: Sven DiMilo | December 13, 2008 1:45 PM

Chuckie 'D' sez:
Embrace your inner fish

#51

Posted by: Lsuoma | December 13, 2008 2:17 PM

All I can say is, Holy Zarquon!

#52

Posted by: Michael Hawkins | December 13, 2008 3:54 PM

I love Tiktaalik roseae. I actually began my blog by posting about the great tiktaalik research that came out a few months ago.

#53

Posted by: Ryan Cunningham | December 13, 2008 6:50 PM

Holy crap. The music talent is pretty serious, there! Good job!

#54

Posted by: cactusren | December 13, 2008 11:24 PM

@ 27: As mentioned above, Your Inner Fish was part of the Penn Reading Project. Additionally, though, Neil Shubin used to be a professor at Penn, and his former student Ted Daeschler, who was also involved in describing Tiktaalik, is now at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Don't know if either of those facts actually had anything to do with the book being chosen, or this video, but since you asked about connections...

This totally made me miss Penn, too. And good public transit...I love the trollies!

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