Periodic table showing the newest chemical elements. In 1959, comedian Tom Lehrer set the periodic table of the elements to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I Am the Very Model of a Modern ...

Whether you’re poisoning pigeons in the park, doing the Vatican rag, or remembering your periodic table, there’s no situation in life that can’t be made better, or, at least, clearer, by the great ...

Whether you’re poisoning pigeons in the park, doing the Vatican rag, or remembering your periodic table, there’s no situation in life that can’t be made better, or, at least, clearer, by the great ...

Above is a four-hour video created by the American Chemical Society that provides a relaxing backdrop for a Christmas party. But, alas, there is also an educational aspect to the video. It includes ...

Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, mathematician and political satirist, has died at 97. He passed away July 26 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to his longtime friend David ...

Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer died on Saturday at the age of 97. Lehrer was famously a Harvard man — admitted at age 15 in 1943 — and began to write and sing songs while an undergraduate there. He ...

In the 1950s and ‘60s, Tom Lehrer, a Jewish musician, satirist and mathematician, rose to prominence with hits like “The Elements,” “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “The Hunting Song” and “The Irish ...

Tom Lehrer, the American singer-songwriter who became well known for his biting and satirical songs on social and political topics in the 1960s, died at the age of 97 last month at his home in ...

Tom Lehrer, the celebrated American song satirist who lampooned politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching mathematics at Harvard and other ...

(Reuters) -Tom Lehrer, the math prodigy who became an influential musical satirist with his barbed views of American social and political life in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 97, ...

Whether you’re poisoning pigeons in the park, doing the Vatican rag, or remembering your periodic table, there’s no situation in life that can’t be made better, or, at least, clearer, by the great ...