Tom Lehrer's Elements - with Helen Arney at Ada Lovelace Day

Helen Arney performs Tom Lehrer’s Elements, which he set to a tune by Arthur Sullivan. This version includes all of the 16 elements discovered (or, more accurately, synthesised in a laboratory) since the song was first written in 1959.
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Ada Lovelace Day Live 2023 was held at the Royal Institution on Tuesday 10 October.
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Writer, 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 BBC2 Coast, electrifying Sandi Toksvig on QI, 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, or touring with science comedy phenomenon Festival of the Spoken Nerd.
Helen is currently working on several full-length musical theatre projects about astounding women in STEMM, and has filled several notebooks with rhymes for Uranus (none of which are printable here).
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[@davidg5898]

Brilliant! Her presentation was very true to Tom Lehrer's humor while adding her own.

[@MarkDibley]

What a brilliant performance!

[@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst]

Flawless performance.

[@matthewheide4797]

Just an absolutely wonderful lecture.

[@daviddobravec1785]

Hvala.

[@roelrovira5148]

Bravo!

[@anthonyshiels9273]

I am nearly 68 years old and NOBODY EVER asked me what was my favourite element until now.

Is it possible there are quite much more than 105 words on the song? I mean, «and» is repeated a fair amount of times.

[@anthonyshiels9273]

Repeats don't count. "and" is only one word no matter how many times it is listed. It DOES count if you are writing for a magazine that pays by the word.

[@marksusskind1260]

Oxygen! W@@P W@@P

[@jimsvideos7201]

Can we go bananas for potassium instead?

[@miriamrosemary9110]

Nice!

[@royparrish2515]

in other words, cheer when the song is over...

[@satishgupta2658]

Love from Nepal 🇳🇵

[@UmarFarooq-lq2qu]

Love ...you... Great work.. Umar

[@Buildings1772]

Starts around 5:50

[@GoranNewsum]

5:35 That's a rather familiar sound...🤔😉

[@darylthomas4522]

Wot no pandemonium

[@karlamay_]

😂😂

[@sharpbends]

AG47 :-)

[@feltiorerricson7670]

Dfq cringe. Do not be fooled - "this is science".

[@baddabing4303]

knew Tom Lehrer' you're not even close to his rendition of it.

[@JM-mz1zj]

Duh?

[@williambrandondavis6897]

unfollow

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

私わ favourite element is hydrogen because it doesn't need neutrons to exist in a stable form, so feels very independent, but it's a chore to choose favourites and quite a few elements arw up there

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

sing the last 16 in K-Pop for the modern era, still remember the day 日本ioum was discovered because i'm a weeb

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

normal speed for the hardcore elemementees

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

halflife joke 笑

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

sing the last 16 in K-Pop for the modern era, still remember the day 日本ioum was discovered because i'm a weeb