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Flanders & Swann - 'First And Second Law'
Flanders and Swann perform 'First and Second Law', a comic song about the laws of thermodynamics, from their 1964 stage show At the Drop of Another Hat. It sets the first and second laws to a deadpan call-and-response routine.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN brings it up whenever thermodynamics or entropy comes up, as the classic comic explanation of the laws.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- notsyort
- Topic
- thermodynamics comedy song
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2024
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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> While they don't have the science/maths background that makes Lehrer an obvious win for the HN crowd, True, but they did one on thermodynamics [VIDEO]
ska on Hacker News · 2024-05
In Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?The classic Flanders and Swann explanation: [VIDEO] Excerpts: No one can consider themsleves educated who doesn't understand the basic language of science - Boyle's law: the greater the external pressure the greater the volume of hot air. I was someone shocked to learn my partner …
robaato on Hacker News · 2024-07
In The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2011)
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