On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:18:48 +0200, "Lesley Robertson"
<l.a.robertson at tnw.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>There's also the Biochemist's Song Book by Harold Baum.
I did an internet search and had no trouble locating a copy.
Really glad to be able to add this one to my library. But my hope had
been that it would contain a song my second year biochemistry
professor sang to class, and alas it does not. For years I have been
hoping to find "The Biosynthesis of Cholesterol" as sung to the tune
Jingle-Bells. I remember very little, but it starts - 'Take an
acetate, condense it with a mate ....... you have acetoacetate.'
And the refrain goes - ' Farnesol, farnesol, good old farnesol, first
it goes to squalene, then you get cholesterol. Hey!' If anybody
knows where I can find that one, I'd really appreciate the
information.
Somewhat off the microbiology topic, but still on the humor in
science topic, one of my favorite books is 'A Stress Analysis of a
Strapless Evening Gown' edited by Robert A. Baker, Anchor Books 1969.
This is a series of essays by various authors on many different
subjects. But it contains the classic "Hiawatha's Lipid". Great
Stuff! Tom McCloud
