Over the last few days we’ve been posting articles with thoughts about the girls we like and don’t like on TV and in video games. That is a series of posts that will continue and examine other media as well, but today we wanted to bring you a YouTube-video instead.

It is an insanely popular video, so at first we saw no reason to put it up here too. But when I found out that some of my close friends hadn’t even heard of it yet, I felt that I had to do my part in bringing it out to the unfortunate people who have yet not heard it. Thus I present to you Kate “Alpinekat” McAlpine’s “Large Hadron Rap”:

I don’t like rap at all, but if more of it had lyrics like these I might listen to it more. And Kate McAlpine is really the kind of girl that Girls with Big Books is all about.

Kate is a science writer working for CERN. She has dual degrees in professional writing and physics, and judging from the video above she has a great sense of humor as well. If you want to find out more you can visit her website at www.katemcalpine.com and see her resume and some articles that she has written.

She is clearly very intelligent and she loves physics, and she has the ability to explain advanced concepts, not just in rap form. That is hot. She is exactly the kind of girl that we want to honor.

Besides, regardless of her other qualities we just have to love someone who can write lyrics like this, in regards to detecting dark matter using the principle of conservation of energy:

You see particles flyin’
In jets they spray,
But you notice there ain’t nothin’
Goin’ the other way.
You say
“My law has just been violated!
That don’t make sense!
There’s gotta be another particle
To make this balance!”

Seriously, “My law has just been violated!” in that context is a line that is just incredibly funny to me, and the whole song is just really entertaining. And about as enlightening as it is possibly to make a rap song, I think.

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