Releasing May 15 2023, Rapsode explores major topics in technology, culture, and industry, from artificial intelligence to genetics to energy innovation, fourteen tracks of original hip-hop music that charts the impact of a changing world on our shared human experience. This album (like several of Baba’s previous projects) also represents a new business model for the music industry, where artists get paid to write about specific topics, producing original work on commission while retaining full ownership and freedom to distribute and sell the work after it’s made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hod20AzYB4o
THE STORY
From planting a million trees in Canada to internationally-known rapper and science communicator.
Baba Brinkman has won multiple awards and enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and off-Broadway. He performed live on MSNBC's “The Rachel Maddow Show”, appears regularly at science, technology, business, and environmental conferences, opened for Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson, and has released more than a dozen solo albums. Before launching his rap career, Baba earned a Masters in English Literature (writing his thesis on The Canterbury Tales) and worked in the forests of Western Canada for ten years, personally planting more than one million trees.
Latest Videos
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Better Days – Baba Brinkman Lyric Video
Mental suffering is often diagnosed as a psychiatric disorder or pathology, but in many cases it can also be interpreted as a healthy brain's adaptive "fast life history" response to childhood trauma, which sets up a natural expectation of future adversity.
Neuroplasticity and therapy can help the brain to re-learn to expect, and produce, better days.
Further reading:
• https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/06/our-brains-response-to-trauma-is-adaptive-not-pathological-researcher-argues/
• https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1103718/full
Scientific consultation by Dr. Haley Peckham
Made with support from The Center for Mental Health Nursing at the University of Melbourne:
https://healthsciences.unimelb.edu.au/departments/nursing/about-us/centreformentalhealthnursing
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Social Robotics – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Social robotics promises human-like interactions for every conceivable purpose, from education to healthcare to retail to therapy and companionship. But how "human-like" does it really feel?
Furhat Robotics challenged Baba Brinkman to a 'man vs machine' rap battle to settle the question, and even built a real, physical robot to deliver rap lyrics that were written by generative AI, a true human/technology co-creation.
Who won? You decide.
Chat GPT prompt thread:
https://chat.openai.com/share/279dbef8-84c5-4255-bc76-efc5bcb202df
Learn more about Furhat Robotics:
https://furhatrobotics.com/
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Social Contagion – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The study of network effects and social dynamics and the impact of 'viral' information on individual and group behavior is a new scientific field that cuts across marketing, journalism, the arts, digital media, and technology.
Made with support from Northwestern University and inspired by the Networks and Social Dynamics class taught by Prof Dashun Wang at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.
Learn more about Professor Wang's research:
https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/wang_dashun.aspx
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From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/rapsode
