Space Weird Thing

I recently wrote about Thing Explainer, a book by my friend and xkcd author Randall Munroe that explains complex scientific ides using only the most common 1000 words in the English language (originally motivated by his flippin' brilliant Up Goer Five comic). As I wrote that article (also using just the 1000 most common words) I wondered how far someone could take this idea. Now I know. My dear friends Marian Call and Molly Lewis -- geek musicians and very, very clever people -- made a music vid...