Today is Tom Lehrer's 90th birthday (yes, he's still with us)...
Last July I plugged Lofty Pursuits, and today they
celebrated the occasion by making orange candy. Orange because Tom once created a rhyme for it (sort of).
Since I've been known to plug Tom Lehrer before, let's see if I can come up with some new material...
The Demented Music Database presents a brief biography (that is, they copied a magazine article from the '90s). Today I learned (not from the article, but still) that he wrote a few songs from Garrison Keillor's "American Radio Company" radio show (i.e. "We're Pretending That This isn't Just A Prairie Home Companion With A New Name and in New Locations"), including "Hannukah in Santa Monica." In addition, I didn't know that the math show that he wrote "That's Mathematics" for eventually turned into "Square One TV." One wonders how hard it would've been to license "That's Entertainment" so the show could use "That's Mathematics".
Another biography courtesy of TheFamousPeople.com. He graduated high school at 15, got his bachelors in mathematics at 19 and his masters the following year.
And again. This one brings up Tomfoolery, Daniel Radcliffe's rendition of "The Elements", and Harvard's actual usage of "Fight Fiercely, Harvard."
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