https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hod20AzYB4o
THE STORY
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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Group Selection – Baba Brinkman Music Video
There's a lot more to evolution than cut-throat competition and survival, including cooperation, altruism, and hyper-sociality, so... can't we all just get along?!
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Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/track/group-selection-20
Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-rap-guide-to-evolution-revised/451234747
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5iCztxH67qnCLKlzUTmIyY
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Group-Selection-2-0/dp/B005A524SG
Further Reading:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/522809
Amoeba footage by Robert Insall
https://twitter.com/robinsall
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Mr. Simmonds
Additional Vocals by Aaron Ross, Sean Ross, Smoky Tiger, Erik Brinkman, and Dizraeli.
Piano by Simon Kendall
Scientific Consultation by David Sloan Wilson
Inspired by DSW's book "Evolution for Everyone"
https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Everyone-Darwins-Theory-Change/dp/0385340923
Original Backing Video by Wendall K. Harrington
Edited by Buck Bowen -
Greenhouse Effect – Baba Brinkman Music Video
A hip-hop history of the past two centuries of climate science discoveries.
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Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-climate-chaos
Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-rap-guide-to-climate-chaos/1144600580
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/32iFtZIcD4R4KeOxMBFjpi
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Greenhouse-feat-Aaron-Nazrul/dp/B01KXBBO32
Further Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_science
https://www.skepticalscience.com/history-climate-science.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-15874560
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Featuring Bill Nye (filmed at NECSS 2016, New York, NY)
Music by Tom Caruana
Chorus Vocals by Aaron Ross
Keys by Simon Kendall
Guitar by Tom Van Deursen
Original Backing Video by Olivia Sebesky
Edited by Buck Bowen -
Ballad of a Zombie – Baba Brinkman Music Video
A zombie anthem exploring the evolutionary science of parasitism, from pathogens to social media.
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Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/track/ballad-of-a-zombie
Apple: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1536246364
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0wSt1kxSR6pTuw5dleJVzY
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Zombie-Baba-Brinkman/dp/B08LD8WL77
Further Reading:
• https://www.popsci.com/zombies-mind-control-and-body-snatchers-natures-horrifying-parasites/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/zombies-in-nature-science-2019-5
• https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mattsimonauthor/zombies-are-real-and-nature-is-terrifying
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music Written, Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Mr. Simmonds
Additional Vocals by Aaron Ross
Animation by Anna C. Gilmore
Zombie Illustrations by Neil Smith
Parasite Illustrations by Noel Planet
Video Edited by Roberto De Jesus
Scientific Consultation by Athena Aktipis and Dr. Joe Alcock
Made with Support from the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Alliance
http://www.zombiemed.org/
