Rap artist Baba Brinkman demonstrates, with examples spanning Eminem and Jay-Z to Chaucer and Lord Byron, that rap is a modern, innovative, and playful form of poetry. Catch Brinkman's Rap Guide to Climate Chaos live in NYC or help crowdfund a Climate Chaos album.
Jon Stewart challenges Fox to a lie-off. Beethoven and the epigenome. The evolution of religion. Men in skirts protest violence against women in Turkey. 'Chuy' Garcia for mayor of Chicago.
Baba Brinkman, a Canadian hip-hop performer with an intellectual bent, sexy beats and sumptuous lyrics, tackles where religion comes from, what purpose it serves and how it evolves. NYT: "like attending the best Ted Talk ever." See him at the Soho Playhouse in NY, or get his album (pay what you want) here.
Ebola. Measles. Bird flu. Get the straight dope from this "rap guide to infection" from the creator of the Off-Broadway hit show "The Rap Guide to Evolution."
Conservatives applaud President Obama's PRISM program. Mavis Staples' One True Vine released. The Rap Guide to Evolution. Maurice Sendak Google Doodle. Lewis Black's Future Tech. Richie Havens opens Woodstock.
A track from Baba Brinkman's album The Rap Guide to Evolution, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust. Also rapping and breaking: Charles Darwin, Sarah Palin, and Richard Dawkins.
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