A music video by local band Brighter Lights, Thicker Glasses made the front page of the Smithsonian website. The video to their song Cambrian Explosion was recently filmed in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum atrium with the blue whale exhibit in the background.
The music trio is John Palmer Palmer on the guitar/vocals, Michael Dunn on the dobro and from UBC civil engineering, Adjunct Prof. Brian Samuels on the cello.
Watch the video and read more at http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/07/the-cambrian-explosion-in-song/
