Katie Melua's "Nine Million Bicycles"

Michael Shermer, director the Skeptics Society and publisher of Skeptic Magazine, ends his talk at TED 2008 with an awesome clip from Katie Melua's hit song "Nine Million Bicycles."
Science and Katie Melua are great together :)
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[@grf15]

I laugh every time! This is so cute, and Katie is obviously a terrific sport.

[@Communist-Doge]

I love the song and her good-natured response!

[@avithasukhraj552]

So cool

[@DivineMoment]

Omg this is so cute!! :D

[@geraldhaffner]

This is so cool :)

[@opepermans]

Recently I was in Beijing. There were hardly any bicycles to be found. There were a few electrical rickshaws, but they certainly did not count up to a million, let alone 9 million. @katie_melua, can you change that too in your song? Oh and I think in Amsterdam there are 9 million bicycles. But then, that's a guess.

[@baddi1973abc]

2:00 where is this song ! :) great !!!

[@charles6157]

Might be about time to call up Katie again. 😂

[@hinsonhau9129]

I actually like the new version of kate’s song than the original.

[@24700France]

Nine Million Bicycles was written by English song writer Mike Batt and not Katie.

[@BIGSIXESFAN]

I wonder if he remembers he's a womble!

[@FBAV]

He wrote many of Katies songs, also together with her. But Mike Batt wrote more, like 'Bright Eyes' for Art Garfunkel and more. He is s great songwriter, a great composer, manager, conductor.... But he also seems to be a great terrible asshole if it comes to money. Relationship between his company Dramatico and Katie Melua got so terrible that was left broke in 2014 or so... Causing her into a trauma/depression. Not sure if she still works with Mike Batman.

[@laughingachilles]

I know the follow-up by Katie Melua said "from the edge of the observable universe" but her original song simply said from the edge and didn't claim anything about the observable edge. I would therefore state that she is wrong as the universe is supposed to be infinite but the criticism of her lyric is also wrong because she never referenced the observable edge.

[@Phagocytosis]

To be fair, what else could we be 12 billion light years from? You're right that it's not absolutely wrong because strictly speaking we don't know what "the edge" might have meant, but, well, let me put it this way, with the available information, I predict that she did mean the edge of the observable universe.

[@MrLondonGo]

@@Phagocytosis clealry she did, because she said so.

[@Phagocytosis]

@@MrLondonGo Ah. Well even if she hadn't, I'd have thought it pretty clear.

[@MrLondonGo]

@@Phagocytosis very true lol

[@mutualbeard]

The qualifications required to make the song line up with current scientific thinking somehow diminishes the romance of Katies lyrics.