Happy Birthday Tom Lehrer!

April 9, 2010, 10:58 am

Back in his youth, TPR thought that the songs of Tom Lehrer were the funniest things he had ever heard.  Lehrer, whose real career was as a Professor of Mathematics at Harvard and UC-Santa Cruz, turns 82 today.  We wish him a happy brithday!

Here is one of his best known songs, The Elements, which traverses the entire periodic table in the jaw-breaking time of a minute and a half.  As you listen, see how many toxins you can identify:

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