Tim Minchin's Storm the Animated Movie

Why HN readers recommended it

Quoted often for its line on alternative medicine that works being called medicine, and recommended as a full-length listen.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

stormmovie

Topic

science vs alternative medicine

Format

comedy

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• "Water has memory, and whilst its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice seems infinite, it somehow forgets all the poo it's had in it." - excerpt from Storm, by Nick Minchin [VIDEO] The entirety of this song is a listen worth your …

• Religion can't really explain things though. If I say a floating jellyfish did it all, and we are too stupid to ever know why, that doesn't give any clarity. Tim Minchin has a great line about this in one of his songs[1] 'Science adjusts its …

• My first thought on reading this was of Tim Minchin's epic beat poem 'Storm' [0] - jump to 3:05 if you want to hear the bit that specifically deals with this. (Warning: some language NSFW) [0] [VIDEO]