Portions of research and clinical trials have ground to a halt. Labs have been instructed to scrutinize every expense, from equipment to personnel. Some teams are even killing off lab mice because ...

That first album soon sold 350,000, fueled primarily by word of mouth, especially on college campuses. Most Chicagoans first ...

Hanukkah in Santa Monica” debuted in 1990, well after Lehrer’s peak as a performer, on a come-from-retirement performance on Garrison Keillor’s radio show.

Tom Lehrer walked away from the piano at the height of his fame. He didn’t lose a publisher or scandalize an audience or ...

Given last week’s news of the death at the age of 97 of America’s most acerbic and creative musical satirist, I was curious ...

Alison Kaplan fell for Tom Lehrer's parody songs long before she met Mark Russell. Then she fell for Russell's parodies – and ...

Thomas A. Lehrer ’47 — a beloved musician and mathematics instructor who set sardonic commentary to upbeat piano melodies — ...

To try and top their retellings of Lehrer’s legacy would be folly. Instead, the story to be told here is one that clarifies ...

Lehrer, who died July 26, wrote numerous satirical songs, including "Pollution" and "The Vatican Rag." In the latter half of his life, he also taught math at Harvard and MIT.

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The mathematician-turned-musician wrote songs that, decades later, still make readers laugh.

Tom Lehrer passed away on Saturday, 26 July, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 97, leaving behind a ...