Science presenter, geek songstress and “Voice of an Angle” Helen Arney has appeared on TV, Radio and in theatres across the world with her unique mix of stand-up, songs and science.
You might have seen her explaining physics while riding a rollercoaster for BBC Coast, singing the periodic table on Channel 4, smashing a wine glass with the power of her voice live on Blue Peter, hosting “Outrageous Acts Of Science” on Discovery Channel, bringing biologically accurate love songs to Stewart Lee's Alternative Comedy Experience, or electrifying Sandi Toksvig on QI with science comedy phenomenon Festival of the Spoken Nerd. Their shows “Full Frontal Nerdity” and "Just For Graphs" are out now on DVD and download for just £π (£3.14).
Helen has also filled several notebooks with rhymes for Uranus, none of which are printable here.
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There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium, And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium, And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium, And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium. There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium, And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium, There's strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium. There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium, And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium, And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium. And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium, Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium. There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium, And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium, And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium, And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium. Update! We've got lawrencium, meitnerium, darmstadtium, seaborgium, Roentgenium and dubnium, flerovium and bohrium, Copernicium, livermorium and hassium, rutherfordium, Oganesson and tenessine, moscovium, nihonium.
Just found your podcast and that in turn has made me find out your name as I LOVED this song when I heard it on the radio years ago. Thanks for the fun science songs
Hi! Thanks for taking the trouble to search and find this!
We just re-listened while driving a portion of the Bertha Benz Memorial Route in Heidelberg, what a pleasure!
Oh how wonderful! Thank you!
Saw this in an AEOUD a few months back. Glad to see you’ve got a version recorded and uploaded, I had the chorus in my head for the rest of the night haha!
I'm using this to teach my girls about the elements- thank you!!
Thumbs up for the perfect in-context use of "Scheibenkleister"!
Ha ha thank you so much! My German-born dad was Chief Language Advisor (Old Germanic Swear Words) on this project, and he certainly came up with the goods!
Upsettingly relateable 🤣
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Amazing! 🤩
You are!
When you have to go to the chemist shop to get fuel ... and mend it repeatedly on the way ...
I still hope we will get back there within the next 30 years.
I made a radio documentary for the BBC about Victorian cars, discovering that electric cars, Stirling engine powered cars and even hydrogen powered cars were all options at this time… but petrol won out. What a different world we would be in if a different technology had got the kind of PR Bertha Benz gave to the petrol internal combustion engine?
@@HelenArney Hydrogen wasn't ready .. and might never be .. Electric wasn't ready, Sterling Engine will likely never be ready .. But I am still interested ... when, what name do I look for ... !
@@davidioanhedges Rev'd Cecil's Hydrogen Engine! www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/cecils-hydrogen-engine Look for Gustav Trouve's electrical car in France - from 1880s onwards plenty of inventors tried their hands all over the world. If you can get BBC Sounds in your area, look for our "Did The Victorians Ruin The World" episode on cars: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b08llqzz - I can't remember if it made the cut but Prof Hugh Hunt told us about stirling engine tractors that ran by burning waste, dung and wood from around the fields they were working in, an amazing closed system but still much trickier and less consistent and efficient than just pouring a little diesel into a combustion engine...
London Buses over here run a mix of electric, hydrogen and diesel: tfl.gov.uk/modes/buses/improving-buses
Aaaaaahhhh Iszi!
Very sexy woman
Do the updated version next time
Oh dear! What have I missed?
If the glass wins, does that mean Helen shatters?
I had a wonderful time. I don't know how anyone can say this video is unwatchable. I beg to differ. I found it eminently watchable! I think Tom Lehrer I'm sure Tom Lehrer would approve. Thank you not for the barium. It tastes awful LOL!
❤ love your song Helen and I'm Monty Arney. From Chattanooga Tennessee eastridge
Awesome vibrato at 0:18 and again at 0:28
"Smashed it" 😂
Theeeeere's... dubnium and hassium, meitnerium, flerovium and tennessine, oganesson, nihonium, moscovium lawrencium, rutherfordium, seaborgium and bohrium and darmstadtium and roentgenium and copernicium and livermorium
No Unobtanium? I guess it's quite hard to get hold of!
I'm debating if I should learn Tom Lehrer's Elements (plus the new ones) or the ASAPscience version, in which they're in order. Both versions are good in different ways, but I definitely can't learn both.
Though this is good, one of the great things about Tom Lehrer's original version was... Well, Tom Lehrer
The best
The song starts at 2:47
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I have not looked at American toilets to see how they are labeled... the ones at my house have only a single lever.
AHAHHAHHAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY ..
I got the notification eight days ago when I was busy, but I didn't forget to watch it because... it's Helen! Always great content!
Awesome!
Funny detail... in many large buildings the two buttons do the same because people use too much toilet paper and the "small flush" button will result in clogs
If it's yellow let it mellow If it's brown flush it down.
Love it
Wow, just got the notification, this is a really funny song. Wonder if you pressed both would it open a black hole in space-time...
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Please make more videos. Saw you on the spreadsheet clip with Mould and Matt Parker... Looked you up and not disappointed at your content.
🔥🔥🔥just wow😎😎😎😱😱😱😄😄😄
I love this!
Wow you riyaliy look so pritiy ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I am your big fan ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
i loved this song so much! you have such a nice voice and a bright personality!
i dont think people understand how long it take to be good at this hahah
Helen, so fab im willing to give you the clap. Lehrer is a genius....he's stll alive last i checked. Such a brainiac!
I been looking for the singer ever since it was taken off a playlist. It was with you and Professor Elemental. Still amazing.
Her: “and manganese and mercury” Me: WOOOOOO WHOOOOOOOOO, *SCREAMS SO LOUD THAT ALL THE GLASS IN THE ROOM SHATTERS* her: 😑😂
Can't wait for more Podcast of unnecessary detail! All the best to Helen!
It is actually coming soon! Recording a few episodes over next month or two, series out in March :)
HELIUM
Wow, I didn't know Emily Noether was also fond of chemistry!
Ok but that acapella moment at 3:26 was SO GOOD helen is so talented
Asks Favourite element.. shouted out loud CARBON... I'm 38 and feel like my toddler learning the alphabet song
This is brilliant.