Science Rocks – again!
- June 25, 2009 8:00 PM |
- By Quirks
From the staff of the CBC science radio program Quirks & Quarks
Another season has gone by and, yet again, we've failed to achieve our collective dream of becoming a punk-rock band.
We have, however, come up with an excellent assortment of rockin' band names. Each week, as we're chasing and recording stories for the show, we coin informal titles for each item.
At the beginning of the season, we realized that a lot of these titles sound like band names. We posted that list and asked you to identify the real band among the names. Someone did – The Spores.
So, for the second time this season, we've come up with a list of the best science-inspired band names. And this time, we don’t know if there’s a real one among them:
Spookfish
Vampire Stars
The Spitting Cobras
Big Snake
Suicide Brains
The Sink Holes
Hyenas on Top
Blood Falls
Amazon Ants
The Komodo Dragons
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Comments (4)
I Googled "Spookfish band," "Vampire Stars band," and so on. A few of them (Spookfish, Spitting Cobras, Big Snake, Sink Holes) *do* show up as being the names of bands! They're all in the first page of results, and all link to MySpace pages. I have no idea if any of them have had any level of success.
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I am inquiring about world weather patterns. Throughout the world, there are many highs and many lows circulating at any given time. In terms of type and quantity, is it a zero sum game? In other words, are there as many circulating lows out there as there are circulating highs? If so, why? If not, why not?
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Just recently graduating from Engineering at the University of Waterloo, science is a fascination to me. Just imagine what life and our world would be like if we utilized science in every way to the way we live, analyze, and path the future - space wouldn't be that far away.
Anyways, keep up the promotion of science alongside some great others as David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, etc.
Thanks!
song-fi is a cool name for a band