Some levity at the end of a crummy downer week - food science karaoke!!

[baby_bear]

I have been so down this week, and I just received this URL from a colleague at work. The music on it just cracked me up. "Food Safety Music" -- get out your headphones if you happen to be interested in or work in this field. Or just want a good laugh.

http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/music.html#songs

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As a serious food toxicologist with 17 years of experience as a University of California faculty member, I enjoy conducting research and developing food safety educational programs.
For the past eight years, I have combined my previous background as a musician with my scientific and communication training to develop an innovative, humorous, and effective musical approach for food safety education.

Technological advances in music synthesizers and computer-based sequencing programs have allowed me to become a "one-person band." I develop parodies of popular songs by re-writing their lyrics, composing and recording musical arrangements, and producing the music. The songs can be accessed directly from this website as RealPlayer streaming audio files. In addition, I have distributed more than 15,000 audio CDs to a variety of audiences worldwide. I also give 25-30 live performances annually throughout the country at gatherings of scientific societies, food professionals, agricultural producers and processors, health professionals, educators, public organizations and students from grade school to college age.

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Put on your headphones and be prepared to crack up, if perhaps like me, you are a scientist who is easily entertained by trite but funnier than hell food science karaoke. Why not?

Enjoy

s_m