Sing for Science

Music Podcasts

Sing For Science is a science-and-music podcast where musicians sit down with scientists to explore the scientific ideas hidden in their most iconic songs. Listen to JD from Korn talk about “Dead Bodies Everywhere” with a mortuary-science expert, Sia...

Episodes

Massachusetts: Regionalism, Material Memory and the Stories They Tell

Sean Ono Lennon: The Golden Egg of Empathy (AI Ethics with Anat Perry and Jason D’Cruz)

Brantley Gilbert: Sins of the Father (Climate Science with Katharine Hayhoe)

Debbii Dawson: Everybody’s Missing Their Medullas (Psychophysics with Daw-An Wu)

Debbii Dawson: Everybody’s Missing Their Medullas (Psychophysics with Daw-An Wu)

Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good (Music as Medicine with Mei Rui)

Special Highlight: Bryan Cranston and Alan Hart on "The Chemistry of Breaking Bad"

Jena Malone: Set Your Sorrows Down (Polyamory Science with Amy Moors)

Rita Wilson: Sound of a Woman (Gender Studies with Ann Pelligrini)

Encore: Hank Azaria/Moe The Bartender: Flaming Moe's (Simpsons Neuroscience with Dr. Kevin Ochsner)

Courtney Barnett: Creature of Habit (Praying Mantis Science with Jessica Ware)

Debi Nova: Everything Can Become a Song

Dropkick Murphys: Citizen I.C.E (Public Safety Science with Phillip Atiba Solomon)

José González: Against the Dying of the Light (Enlightenment Values with Steven Pinker)

Encore: Cat Power: Cat Power Sings Dylan (Nostalgia Neuroscience with Hetvi Doshi)

Miguel: Slow It Down (Time Perception with Jimena Canales)

rum.gold: Is it Something I Said (Attachment Psychology with Nim Tottenham

Lucius: Ice Cream (Multisensory Perception with Ladan Shams)

Public Service Broadcasting: The Last Flight (Archeology with Richard Pettigrew)

Encore: Sheila E: The Glamorous Life (Rhythm Neuroscience with Hugo Merchant)