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Nanobot (Havana Parody) | A Capella Science ft. Dorothy Andrusiak

acapellascience · music · Watch on YouTube

Biology & biotechnologySatire & parodyMusic performance & songs

What it is

A Capella Science parody of Camila Cabello's Havana, retold as a song about molecular machines and nanotechnology. It features animations of rotaxanes, catenanes and molecular switches, and comes with footnotes.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters recommend it as a catchy, accurate piece of science edutainment, and admire its footnote practice.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2024, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “My current song pedantry fave is”

    Favorite song parody, with numbered references.

    082349872349872, 2024-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?”

  2. “If you've not already watched it, I recommend this video by A Capella Science”

    A cappella song on molecular machines and life as nanobots.

    ben_w, 2024-01 · Recommendation · in “Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death”

  3. “made a catchy "edutainment" song”

    Catchy edutainment song with animations of molecular switches encoding binary state.

    nihzm, 2024-01 · Recommendation · in “Does DNA have the equivalent of IF-statements, WHILE loops, or function calls?”

  4. “I recommend the series together for how well it frames humans in relation to other life and universe as a whole.”

    Three-minute intro to nanotechnology, part of recommended series.

    TeMPOraL, 2025-01 · Recommendation · in “Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: nanotechnology, parody, a capella, molecular biology, edutainment, chemistry

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