Lectures are now taped at Harvard Medical School, prompting professors to break into song and dance during their lectures. Everyone wants to be an entertainer:

Now that lectures are videotaped, Harvard medical professors seem to be hamming it up for the camera, using song and dance to entice students to watch and learn.

Earlier this month, Shiv Pillai tried genres as diverse as the ode, the mantra, and hip hop to summarize and attach some sort of teleology to complicated immunology pathways while lightening up otherwise tedious lecture-packed days. His melancholy take on T cells: “Looking for antigen below and above, Many will die of unrequited love.”

“Thread that peptide into TAP,” he added with an enthusiastic shimmy, encouraging us to join in. “Everybody do the lymphocyte rap!”