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Analyzing The Song 'Barenaked Ladies'

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*****On October 9, 2007, the popular Canadian band "Barenaked Ladies" released their, "The History of Everything", as the theme song for the then brand new "BIg Bang Theory" sitcom, created by Chuck Lore and Bill Prady. In 2010 they released a longer version as a single. The quirky song, filled with "scientific" facts, has enjoyed nearly as much popularity, as the top rated show itself. The song describes the changes and developments the universe has gone through since the beginning of time, but some of the Science contained in the song, isn't really accurate. No doubt many of the lyrics were originally written and adjusted to fit the rhyme and beat of the song itself. I don't think the exactness of the Science was the priority (poetic …show more content…

the use of tools dates back to the Olduwan technology of around 2.5 million years ago. Many other hominids had tools before Neanderthals.

*There is confusion and inaccuracy in the line "We built a wall... we built the pyramids". While the song does not specifically state that one event actually preceded the other, I would say that by putting "we built a wall" first, in a song which chronicles the history of the world, it seems that the song implies the wall came first, which it did not. The pyramids of Egypt were built around 2500 BC and the Great Wall of China was built around 500 BC.

*"The Bipeds stood up straight, the dinosaurs all met their fate (something in here wrong?.... bipeds didn't stand up straight right away of course and dinosaurs long before ???

*Most paleontologists now have little doubt that birds are a subgroup of dinosaurs, so basically only “non-avian dinosaurs” became extinct 65 million years ago. The Alvarez theory (hypothesis) of extinction is that a world wide impact event such as a massive asteroid or comet, is the most widely held cause of the extinction of many species, including many dinosaur species, about 65 million years ago. This impact event would most likely have done the opposite of freezing them. The Deccan Traps theory, blames massive volcanism and a very likely global warming, making land and water ecosystems not compatible to large animals, over thousands of years,

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