My pseudo-staycation for 2011 put me in the enjoyable position of seeing “Toad The Wet Sprocket’s” kick-off public performance for their summer reunion tour. My gal and I secured mezzanine tickets and dinner for their 7pm show, and we showed up just before 5:30 to get our table. (Will-call started at 5:30, so we wanted to be nearer the front of the line.) We were surprised to find the foyer with the will-call empty of patrons, but the staff was happy to let us head to our table. Turns out, we were the second group to be seated. The first group was the band itself.

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If you are fond of science, and you haven't seen this yet, you should find five minutes of broadband access before the end of the day for this YouTube video posted by John Boswell (a.k.a. melodysheep) of http://www.symphonyofscience.com. His goal in creating this piece (and other similar work, it seems) is, "to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form."

In this video, Boswell brings a quartet of powerful popularizers of science together to get us thinking about the connectedness of things.

The earnestness and passion of deGrasse Tyson, Sagan, Nye, and Feynman survived the transmogrification of the audio and the slight video editing allows Boswell to sync their words with the music. The ideas behind this piece are BIG, and if a student of science (or mathematics) is allowed to sit back to listen and reflect on the message, I hope they'd find inspiration for their studies and their work. These ideas are one of the reasons I do what I do. I have hope that through science and mathematics we can find new inter-connections and new layers of our reality that can be used to improve the human condition.

Thanks to Ze Frank for tweeting this.