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Data Science – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Rap battle between a data scientist and a classical statistician, arguing for predictive algorithmic models versus inferential data models respectively.
Download the audio:
https://soundcloud.com/bababrinkman/data-science
Learn more:
https://soundcloud.com/altereverything/43-data-science-through-the-eyes-of-statisticians
https://towardsdatascience.com/thoughts-on-the-two-cultures-of-statistical-modeling-72d75a9e06c2
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/predictive-modeling-striking-a-balance-between-accuracy-and-interpretability
https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.4642
Music Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Mr. Simmonds
Video by Haley Monson
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Andrew Murray – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Download "The Rap Guide to Religion" album:
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-religion
Now playing off-Broadway:
https://www.sohoplayhouse.com/rapguide
Support my videos on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/bababrinkman
Baba Brinkman explores the Darwinian origins of religion in his own family tree, through his Scottish and South African Murray ancestors who demonstrate the link between faith and fertility.
Further reading:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/gods-little-rabbits-religious-people-out-reproduce-secular-ones-by-a-landslide/
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Feelings for Reasons – Baba Brinkman Music Video
New album "See From Space" available now:
Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/see-from-space
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-from-space/1472326163
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/See-Space-Baba-Brinkman/dp/B07V3DF34W
The evolutionary origins of emotions and mental illness, contemplated in a time of grief and depression.
Inspired by the book "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings" by Randy Nesse. http://goodreasons.info -
Redemption (feat Jessie Davis) – Baba Brinkman Music Video
New album "See From Space" available now:
Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/see-from-space
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-from-space/1472326163
Become a Patreon supporter:
https://www.patreon.com/bababrinkman
Scientific Consultation by Dr. Gary Yohe and Dr. Michael E. Mann
Lyrics and Sources:
http://goo.gl/hFAwm5
Track Credits:
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Chorus by Jessie Davis
Video Directed by Baba Brinkman
Video Edited by Buck Bowen
Camera by Buck Bowen, Farbeon & Mimi Hayes
Music by Tom Caruana
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See From Space – Baba Brinkman Music Video
New album "See From Space" available now:
Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/see-from-space
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-from-space/1472326163
An alien rap song inspired by the book "The Ape that Understood the Universe" by Steve Stewart-Williams, now available from Cambridge University Press.
Learn more:
https://www.cambridge.org/apethatunderstood
Support my videos on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/bababrinkman
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Chorus Vocals by Aaron Nazrul
Piano, Synth, and Additional Vocals by Simon Kendall
Video Directed by Baba Brinkman
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Confessions of a Skeptic – Baba Brinkman Music Video
New album "See From Space" available now:
Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/see-from-space
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-from-space/1472326163
Skepticism and the scientific method are not articles of faith, but we can profess our devotion to them with no less fervor. Confess it!
Support my videos on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/bababrinkman
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Piano and Organ by Simon Kendall
Video Edited by Buck Bowen
Video Directed by Baba Brinkman
Made with support from the Skeptics Society and from patrons on Patreon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IDUZ1glnes
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Science Is Everywhere with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Brian Greene | StarTalk @ BAM | Full Episode
Science really is everywhere! From the Big Bang to quantum mechanics to free will to ice skating, we explore it all featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, theoretical physicist Brian Greene, neuroscientist Heather Berlin, rapper Baba Brinkman, and Olympic silver medalist figure skater Sasha Cohen.
Recorded live at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on March 9, 2018
Note from StarTalk Editors...
For further reading on the complex topic of ice melting under pressure, Dr. Tyson recommends the following two scholarly articles on the subject, one on the general topic of slippery ice (https://www.dropbox.com/s/ykmfo4yez04wllo/Why%20is%20ice%20slippery.pdf?dl=0), and the other on the Capt. Robert Falcon Scott expedition to the South Pole (https://www.dropbox.com/s/2swrz12vs158v30/PNAS%20on%20RF%20Scott.pdf?dl=0), whose diary entry noted, "The (ice) surface, lately a very good hard one, is coated with a layer of woolly crystals [...] (that) cause impossible friction to the runners. God help us, we can’t keep up this pulling, that is certain.” -
Performance Feedback Revision - Hammersmith Apollo
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Baba Brinkman's freestyle rap "Performance, Feedback, Revision" from "The Rap Guide to Evolution', live in front of 3,500 people at Robin Ince's "9 Lessons and Carols for Godless People" comedy variety show December 20 2009 at the Hammersmith Apollo, London. Instrumental beat by Nokz from Tehdit.
More about the show:
http://www.rapguidetoevolution.com
Download the Rap Guide to Evolution:
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Baba Brinkman's Skeptic Rap (world premiere)
Sumptuous brain food.
Rap with an intellectual bent.
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist based in New York. He is best known for his "Rap Guide" series of science-based hip-hop albums and theatre shows, including Rap Guides to Evolution, Climate Change, and Religion. Check him out at:
http://bababrinkman.com
http://music.bababrinkman.com
https://twitter.com/bababrinkman
https://www.facebook.com/bababrinkman
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The world premiere of this rap was performed at a live variety science show hosted by Dr. Michael Shermer, in partnership with YouTube Space NY in late September 2017, celebrating 25 years of Skeptic magazine and the Skeptics Society combating ‘fake news.’ The event explored the question: ‘How Can We Know What’s True?’.
The Skeptics Society is one of America’s leading non-profit science education organizations. For the past quarter century, our mission has been to ensure that the information surrounding the world’s biggest controversies is properly communicated. For so many issues: from evolution and the Holocaust, to climate and vaccinations, to alternative medicine and alternative archaeology, to religion and politics, to policy-making and economics, the ultimate question is: is it really true?
Check us out at:
https://www.skeptic.com
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You play a vital part in our commitment to promote science and reason. Your ongoing patronage will help ensure that sound scientific viewpoints are heard around the world.
Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/skeptic -
Baba Brinkman: 'Fahrenheit 45' World Premiere
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SpectorDance Ocean Trilogy Sunset Ctr evening complete
SpectorDance Ocean Trilogy performance at Sunset Center Carmel 4-25-2019
Evening performance, complete. -
Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Climate Chaos | Talks At Google
In Rap Guide to Climate Chaos, Baba uses prodigious rhythmic phrasing, engaging visual projections, wit, enthusiasm and peer reviewed facts to present a series of character‐driven song chapters on the subject of climate change, covering the salient causes, consequences, and solutions.
http://www.bababrinkman.com/
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Rap Guide to Evolution - Baba Brinkman
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, 5-28-2010 http://babasword.com/
Subscribe to JesusSavesAtCitibank:
http://www.youtube.com/JesusSavesAtCitibank -
Baba Brinkman: Rap Evolution
Reaching out with rap? Canadian rapper Baba Brinkman explains Charles Darwin's theory of evolution with rap. This month's contribution to The Agenda's continuing Learning 2030 series. -
Rappin' Chaucer
A Vancouver artist raps old English stories to a high school audience. Tales like Beowulf, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and even Darwin's Evolutionary Theory. As Monica Martinez reports, Jay-Z and Ludacris may have more in common with Chaucer and Darwin that you had thought.
shooter/editor/reporter - Monica Martinez -
Rap Guide to Religion on BBC Sunday Morning Live
Baba Brinkman's "Rap Guide to Religion" features on BBC TV in a segment with Reverend George Hargreaves and Hardeep Singh Kohli about the relationship between religion and comedy.
Learn more about the show: http://www.rapguidetoreligion.com -
Rap The Canterbury Tales at Colgate University
Baba Brinkman, creator and performer of Rap the Canterbury Tales speaks of his performances. -
Interview with The Science Rapper Baba Brinkman - AGU 2017 Fall Meeting
AGU TV interviews science rapper Baba Brinkman about his approach and why he chose hip-hop as a way to communicate his science. Baba performs a freestyle at the end of the interview.
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A brief history of rhyme | Baba Brinkman | TEDxNavesink
In this talk, rap artist Baba Brinkman demonstrates that rap music isn't just music, it's also an innovative poetry form rich in linguistic playfulness. In the same way Shakespeare was a lyrical entertainer of the past, Brinkman believes that "rappers are the main lyrical entertainers of the present." Rap is simply a modern, innovative, and playful form of poetry—a contemporary style of a timeless art form.
In this entertaining talk, with examples spanning Eminem and Jay-Z to Chaucer and Lord Byron, you will learn how the techniques used rappers for crafting memorable rhymes have ancient antecedents.
Find more great content at http://TEDxNavesink.com
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations) -
TEDxSMU - Baba Brinkman - Rap Guide to Evolution
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian actor and rap artist and former tree‑planter who has personally planted more than one million trees. Baba has received international acclaim for his rap comedy theatre shows, which cover topics as diverse as evolutionary psychology, the Canterbury Tales, democracy, and civil disobedience. Last year he won the Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe for his "Rap Guide to Evolution," which is transferring to New York in 2011. When he is not on tour, Baba resides in his hometown of Vancouver.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.) -
Rap-up summary of PLAY | Baba Brinkman | TEDxNavesink
Here is an end-of-the-day summary of TEDxNavesink Play, skillfully put into rhyme by rap artist Baba Brinkman in one of his signature "rap-ups". For those of of you unable to attend the event, just check out the other videos from TEDxNavesink PLAY to see the talks he's referencing.
Sell all talks from PLAY at http://TEDxNavesink.com/Play
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations) -
How Did You Get Into That? | Baba Brinkman | TEDxAsburyPark
Understanding evolution leads to understanding yourself and others.
Hip-hop music and culture is more sophisticated than you think.
We are all cut from the same cloth, so we should love and respect each other.
Both genes and the cultural inheritance that shapes our identities are subject to unmistakably Darwinian evolution, and can be studied scientifically. Using rap music, digital media and pop-culture as a locus of identity-construction and identity-performance, we can apply this scientific analysis to achieve a deeper understanding of ourselves and the many ways our identities are capable of uniting and dividing us.
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist, playwright, and former tree planter based in New York City. He is best known for his "Rap Guide" series of science-based hip-hop albums and theater shows, including Rap Guides to Evolution, Climate Change, and Religion.
Baba is also a pioneer in the genre of “lit-hop” or literary hip-hop, known for his adaptations of The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and Gilgamesh. He is a recent recipient of the National Center for Science Education’s “Friend of Darwin Award” for his efforts to improve the public understanding of evolutionary biology.
Baba tours and performs regularly and has spoken at several TEDx conferences and performed at the World Science Festival.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx -
Baba Brinkman – Rap Guide to Religion
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Rap Guide to Climate Chaos | Baba Brinkman | TEDxEast
A hip-hop performance about climate change.
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist, award-winning playwright, and former tree-planter who has personally planted more than one million trees.
Best known for his "Rap Guide" series of plays and albums, Baba has toured the world and enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and off-Broadway in New York. The Rap Guide to Religion was nominated for a 2015 Drama Desk Award in the category "Unique Theatrical Experience" and The Rap Guide to Evolution (“Astonishing and brilliant” NY Times), won a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination for "Outstanding Solo Performance", and was featured on US national TV on The Rachel Maddow Show and at the Seattle Science Festival opening for Stephen Hawking. In 2014 the show enjoyed a sold-out week at the Sydney Opera House.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 - Baba Brinkman's Final Rap Up
Rap artist Baba Brinkman summarises the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 in his own musical style! -
Social Norms: That's a Wrap
Baba Brinkman's "rap up" of the first day's discussions at the DySoC/NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Social Norms, April 23-25, 2019. About 40 scholars from fields diverse as anthropology, economics, neurobiology, psychology and more heard some of the themes of the day in a "rap up," which Baba wrote and performed after sitting in on the workshop and taking really excellent notes. Find out more at http://www.nimbios.org/wordpress/2019/04/24/baba-brinkmans-different-kind-of-beatbox/ -
Rap-up summary of PLAY | Baba Brinkman | TEDxNavesink
Here is an end-of-the-day summary of TEDxNavesink Play, skillfully put into rhyme by rap artist Baba Brinkman in one of his signature "rap-ups". For those of of you unable to attend the event, just check out the other videos from TEDxNavesink PLAY to see the talks he's referencing.
Sell all talks from PLAY at http://TEDxNavesink.com/Play
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations) -
First Ever Lease Accounting Rap Song by Baba Brinkman
Filmed at the Enterprise Lease Accounting Summit in Dallas, TX in June 2019, Baba Brinkman provides a summary of the first half day. This is the first-ever known recording of rap song about lease accounting. -
18c Baba Brinkman Wrap Up
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The Real Seth Greenberg?
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Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide to Consciousness – Trailer
Edinburgh Fringe August 2-28: https://goo.gl/xqH2Rm
Support the IndieGogo campaign: https://igg.me/at/consciousrap/x
A new hip-hop play about the neuroscience of human experience, from brain cells to beats and rhymes, from the world's only "peer reviewed rapper."
Catch it at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. Full length studio album coming soon! -
The Rap Guide to Evolution - TV Ad
The Rap Guide to Evolution is now available for touring: http://www.rapguidetoevolution.com contact bookings@bababrinkman.com -
Rap Guide to Climate Chaos – Trailer
Climate Chaos Album Available Now:
http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-climate-chaos
More info at: http://rapguidetoclimate.com
Baba Brinkman breaks down the politics, economics, and science of global warming, following its surprising twists from the carbon cycle to the global energy economy. To paraphrase the Notorious BIG: “Mo’ carbon, mo’ problems.” A searing and heartfelt hip-hop manifesto addressing the world’s hottest topic.
"This show could change your life."
★★★★★ — Edinburgh Reporter
“Smart, funny, well-sustained"
★★★★ — The Times
"Exceptionally talented, brilliantly lyrical... paints a compelling picture"
★★★★ — The Scotsman
“Close to perfect... an artist at the absolute top of their game." ★★★★★ — The Skinny -
Rap Guide to Religion – Trailer
Reviews and more information here:
http://www.rapguidetoreligion.com
Get the album:
http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/religion-evolves -
The Canterbury Tales Remixed - Trailer
Written and performed by Baba Brinkman
Music and turntablism by Mr. Simmonds
Directed by Darren Lee Cole
http://www.bababrinkman.com/rap-guides/canterbury-tales-remixed/
A high energy mash up of 14th Century literature and hip-hop storytelling by the reigning master of such oddball but highly compelling juxtapositions, "The Canterbury Tales Remixed" retells three of Chaucer's classic stories (those of the Pardoner, Merchant and Wife of Bath), along with new adaptations of the pre-Chaucer legends of Gilgamesh and Beowulf.
Show Business Weekly summarizes the experience thus: "Warriors clash, badass thieves and thugs receive a brutal comeuppance, husbands fight a losing battle against wily wives and seducing lothiarios, villages are plagued by sinister forces of nature... Like ancient listeners gathered around the fire, we want to hear more."
The New York Times adds "A delightful one-man show... Over the course of a snappy 85 minutes (no intermission), Mr. Brinkman has convincingly intellectualized hip-hop and (re)popularized Chaucer, for skeptics of any stripe."
"It's a conceit that's not only audacious, but also astute (there is a certain correlation between oral storytelling traditions and today's music)... the fleet show proves to be a diverting -- and impressive -- showcase for the performer's unique talents." TheatreMania
Recording now available for download: http://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/the-canterbury-tales-remixed
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Rap Guide to Evolution - Trailer
After a five-month smash hit run off-Broadway, the Rap Guide to Evolution is now available for touring. More information online at http://www.rapguidetoevolution.com or contact bookings@bababrinkman.com
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Dylan – Baba Brinkman Music Video
From the new album "The Rap Guide to Consciousness"
Bandcamp: http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-consciousness
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1282574809?ls=1&app=itunes
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rap-Guide-Consciousness-Baba-Brinkman/dp/B075LPDRX8
Music produced and mixed by Tom Caruana
Keys by Simon Kendall
Cuts by Mr. Simmonds
Video animation by Olivia Sebesky
Further reading:
• http://www.pnas.org/content/106/Supplement_1/10061.full
• www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-do-babies-really-know/ -
Zombie – Baba Brinkman – Philosophy of Mind Rap
From the new album "The Rap Guide to Consciousness"
Bandcamp: http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-consciousness
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1282574809?ls=1&app=itunes
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rap-Guide-Consciousness-Baba-Brinkman/dp/B075LPDRX8
Music produced and mixed by Tom Caruana
Keys by Simon Kendall
Video animation by Olivia Sebesky
Further reading:
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
• pp.kpnet.fi/seirioa/cdenn/unzombie.htm -
Room – Baba Brinkman – Philosophy of Mind Rap
From the new album "The Rap Guide to Consciousness"
Bandcamp: http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-consciousness
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1282574809?ls=1&app=itunes
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rap-Guide-Consciousness-Baba-Brinkman/dp/B075LPDRX8
Music produced and mixed by Tom Caruana
Keys by Simon Kendall
Video animation by Olivia Sebesky and Don Cieslik
Further reading:
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
• ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/searle.htm -
Mary – Baba Brinkman – Philosophy of Mind Rap
A deaf scientist explores the neural basis of auditory experience, specifically rap music.
From the new album "The Rap Guide to Consciousness"
Bandcamp: http://music.bababrinkman.com
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1282574809
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rap-Guide-Consciousness-Baba-Brinkman/dp/B075LPDRX8
Music produced and mixed by Tom Caruana
Keys by Simon Kendall
Video animation by Olivia Sebesky
Vocals by Heather Berlin
Further reading:
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
• ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/RoboMaryfinal.htm
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Tucson Consciousness Rap Up - Baba Brinkman
The 2014 Tucson Consciousness Conference http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu featured talks by Dan Dennett, Dave Chalmers, Ned Block, Christof Koch, Deepak Chopra, Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, Bernard Baars, Heather Berlin, Henry Markram, Karl Deisseroth, Sue Blackmore, Christof Koch, Giulio Tononi, and many others.
Baba Brinkman wrote a 3-4 minute rap summary of each day of the five day conference and performed the full "Rap Up" at the end of the conference. This version is abridged, but the full raps are embedded in the Consciousness Central UStream Broadcasts here:
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Baba Brinkman on Consciousness Central -- TSC 2016
Five daily wrap-up raps from Baba Brinkman at The Science of Consciousness conference 2016, Tucson.
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Freedom Ain't Free – Lyric Video
Support my videos on Patreon:
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been arguing for Democrats to become the party of freedom, by emphasizing the kinds of freedoms protected by government services and civil rights, a well as the loss of freedom caused by failing to restrict harmful behaviors.
I agree, and wish Mayor Pete the best of luck in the Primary.
The audio on the intro comes from this interview:
https://youtu.be/gsrjkQt60vI?t=535
"Freedom Ain't Free" was originally released in 2016 on the album "The Rap Guide to Climate Chaos"
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-climate-chaos -
Redemption (feat Jessie Davis) – Baba Brinkman Music Video
New album "See From Space" available now:
Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/see-from-space
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-from-space/1472326163
Become a Patreon supporter:
https://www.patreon.com/bababrinkman
Scientific Consultation by Dr. Gary Yohe and Dr. Michael E. Mann
Lyrics and Sources:
http://goo.gl/hFAwm5
Track Credits:
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Chorus by Jessie Davis
Video Directed by Baba Brinkman
Video Edited by Buck Bowen
Camera by Buck Bowen, Farbeon & Mimi Hayes
Music by Tom Caruana
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Destruction – Trump vs Global Warming Music Video
New album "See From Space" available now:
Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/see-from-space
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-from-space/1472326163
Become a Patreon supporter:
https://www.patreon.com/bababrinkman
Lyrics and Sources:
https://goo.gl/qPW5BF
Song Credits:
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Video by Nicholas Castel
Scientific Consultation by Dr. Gary Yohe
Chorus Vocals by Aaron Nazrul
Guitar by John Ellis
Piano and Organ by Simon Kendall
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Interview with The Science Rapper Baba Brinkman - AGU 2017 Fall Meeting
AGU TV interviews science rapper Baba Brinkman about his approach and why he chose hip-hop as a way to communicate his science. Baba performs a freestyle at the end of the interview. -
Erosion – Baba Brinkman Music Video
New album "See From Space" available now:
Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/see-from-space
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-from-space/1472326163
Lyrics and Sources:
http://goo.gl/iKz8Uk
Support on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/bababrinkman
Read More:
https://medium.com/@AlexSteffen/trump-putin-and-the-pipelines-to-nowhere-742d745ce8fd#.4469apiqb
Credits:
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Guitar by Tom Van Deursen
Chorus Vocals by Aaron Nazrul
Piano and Chorus Vocals by Simon Kendall
Commissioned and Peer Reviewed by Gary Yohe
Wesleyan University Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies -
Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Climate Chaos | Talks At Google
In Rap Guide to Climate Chaos, Baba uses prodigious rhythmic phrasing, engaging visual projections, wit, enthusiasm and peer reviewed facts to present a series of character‐driven song chapters on the subject of climate change, covering the salient causes, consequences, and solutions.
http://www.bababrinkman.com/
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Andrew Murray – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Download "The Rap Guide to Religion" album:
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-religion
Now playing off-Broadway:
https://www.sohoplayhouse.com/rapguide
Support my videos on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/bababrinkman
Baba Brinkman explores the Darwinian origins of religion in his own family tree, through his Scottish and South African Murray ancestors who demonstrate the link between faith and fertility.
Further reading:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/gods-little-rabbits-religious-people-out-reproduce-secular-ones-by-a-landslide/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Murray_(minister) -
Baba Brinkman – Religion Evolves
From the album "The Rap Guide to Religion", now available:
http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-religion
Animation by Steven Fahey (full-time animator for the Simpsons)
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Soulful Spider
Co-Production and Mix by Mr. Simmonds
Additional Keys by Simon Kendall
Further Reading 1:
http://www.fos.auckland.ac.nz/~quentinatkinson/Quentin_Atkinsons_Website/Home_files/SFR12_20%20Bulbulia%20et%20al_Author%20Copy.pdf
Further Reading 2:
http://courses.washington.edu/evpsych/DS%20Wilson%20-%20testing%20hypotheses%20about%20religion%20-%20Hum%20Nat%202004.pdf -
Baba Brinkman – God of the Gaps
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"The Rap Guide to Religion" full album now available: http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-religion
God of the Gaps
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Soulful Spider
Chorus Vocals by Gaiaisi
Animation by Dave Anderson
Additional Keys by Simon Kendall
Additional Vocals by Linda Kidder
Mixed by Lin Gardiner
Mastered by Mr. Simmonds
Made with support from the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion (IBCSR)
Further reading:
1. http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/religion-as-anthropomorphism-an-interview-with-stewart-guthrie/
2. http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/04/08/398227737/what-the-god-of-the-gaps-teaches-us-about-science
3. http://www.michaelshermer.com/2013/07/gods-of-the-gaps/ -
Neighborhood Atheism – Baba Brinkman ft. Greydon Square
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Song from the album "The Rap Guide to Religion" available now:
http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-religion
Further Reading:
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-atheists-we-distrust/
• https://evolution-institute.org/article/evolutionary-studies-of-religion-and-of-secularism-2/ -
Rap Guide to Religion on BBC Sunday Morning Live
Baba Brinkman's "Rap Guide to Religion" features on BBC TV in a segment with Reverend George Hargreaves and Hardeep Singh Kohli about the relationship between religion and comedy.
Learn more about the show: http://www.rapguidetoreligion.com -
Rap Guide to Religion – Trailer
Reviews and more information here:
http://www.rapguidetoreligion.com
Get the album:
http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/religion-evolves
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Senescence – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Evolutionary theories of aging and degeneration, from the album The Rap Guide to Medicine
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-medicine
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Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Mr. Simmonds
Animation by Rob Penczak
Made with support from the European Society for Evolutionary Biology -
Baba Brinkman – Gene's Eye View
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From the album "The Rap Guide to Medicine" available now:
http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-medicine
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Mr. Simmonds
Animation by Dave Anderson
Made with support from The Perlstein Lab -
Baba Brinkman – So Infectious
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From the album "The Rap Guide to Medicine" – available now for streaming and download:
http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-medicine
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman http://bababrinkman.com
Animation by Dave Anderson http://bloodsausage.co.uk
Produced by Tom Caruana http://teasearecords.com
Co-Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Jamie Simmonds http://mrsimmondsmusic.com
Made with support from the Society for Applied Microbiology http://sfam.org.uk
Lyrics:
I wanna rhyme like Streptococcus
Jump from throat to throat and get spotted
Hip-hop is such an infectious process
You spread it when you get it embedded in epiglottises
And when I talk to women
I’m so Clostridium botulinum
I just get up in your lips like a botox fix
When I flip it and rock the rhythm
I wanna scratch a record
That’s hard to resist like Staph infection
When I spit a verse, I work ya like MRSA
And get your impetigo itchin’
I got the sickest skills
Lyrically I’m Clostridium difficile
When I run up in the lab with a sample in a bag
Technicians say my shiz-nit is ill
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I colonize beats like petri dishes
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I’m lyrically spirochete twisted
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I colonize beats like petri dishes
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I’m lyrically spirochete twisted
Every time I rhyme on the beat so fly
I’m EHEC E. coli
If a man try to bite me, he goin’ die
But you’ll find I’m benign if you be bovine
What’s this? It’s a hell of a ruckus
It’s hyped up like Roc-a-fella productions
I make crowds go “whoop whoop” when I bust this
Whooping like it’s Bordetella pertussis
I rap now, I used to be a tree planter
I’ll turn a professor into an obscene dancer
Yeah, she’s tenured, but she wants the rapper
Keen for some horizontal gene transfer
I pop champagne like an optimist
You can check my gram stain, I’m positive
Bacillus anthracis rockin’ this
Mainstream rap is so acidophilus
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I colonize beats like petri dishes
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I’m lyrically spirochete twisted
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I colonize beats like petri dishes
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I’m lyrically spirochete twisted
I’m Canadian born, although I dwell in America
I’m known as a hell of a character
I get up in your guts, Salmonella enterica
And make you kind of ill and embarrass ya
My X-Factors give lesser rappers
Peptic ulcers, I’m so Helicobacter
Pylori, that you best step backwards
Or you might start developing cancers
I live to spread my rhymes vicarious
Diplococci? Fine, I’m bi-curious
I wouldn’t wanna be a gonarrhoean, I’m serious
I’m into meninge when it comes to Neisserians
This is my planet and I plan to own it
Any beat, I can breathe on it, I’m anaerobic
I’m a virus too, but that’s a can I haven’t opened
That’ll be my epidemic moment
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I colonize beats like petri dishes
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I’m lyrically spirochete twisted
Infectious, I’m so infectious
In your textbooks like Christians in Texas
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I’m lyrically spirochete twisted
Infectious, I’m so infectious
Like your blood is a club and I’m on the guestlist
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I’m lyrically spirochete twisted
Infectious, I’m so infectious
Man or woman, I don’t care, I’m not sexist
Infectious, I’m so infectious
I’m lyrically spirochete twisted -
CARTA: Baba Brinkman and The Rap Guide to Medicine
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Canadian Rap-Artist, award-winning playwright, and former tree-planter Baba Brinkman brings his singular form of "peer-reviewed" Rap to the CARTA symposium Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health with a very special performance of unique Raps on disease, evolution and even the symposium itself. Recorded on 10/14/2016. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 31611] -
Adaptive Medicine - Lyric Video
A defense of the Obamacare commissioned by Swedish Medical Centre in Seattle http://www.swedish.org and performed at their Health Care Symposium in October 2010.
Swedish asked me to write a rap song about the debate over US health care reform, and cautioned that it shouldn't be a "partisan rant" but that I was free to express my views. Most of it is directly based on Atul Gawande's writing in the New Yorker.
Sources:
Atul Gawande: "The Cost Conundrum"
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande
Atul Gawande: "Testing, Testing"
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/12/14/091214fa_fact_gawande
Wikipedia: "Canada vs US Health Care"
Wilkenson & Pickett: "The Spirit Level"
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Mr. Simmonds
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Feelings for Reasons – Lyric Video
Rap Guide to Psychiatry
New album "See From Space" available now:
Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/see-from-space
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-from-space/1472326163
The evolutionary origins of emotions and mental illness, contemplated in a time of grief and depression. Inspired by the book "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings" by Randy Nesse. http://goodreasons.info
Credits:
Written by D. Brinkman, T. Caruana and J. Davis
Music Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Tom Caruana
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Additional Vocals by Jessie Davis
Flute, Clarinet, and Sax by Morgan Price
Piano and Synth Keys by Simon Kendall -
See From Space – Baba Brinkman Music Video
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Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-from-space/1472326163
An alien rap song inspired by the book "The Ape that Understood the Universe" by Steve Stewart-Williams, now available from Cambridge University Press.
Learn more:
https://www.cambridge.org/apethatunderstood
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Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Chorus Vocals by Aaron Nazrul
Piano, Synth, and Additional Vocals by Simon Kendall
Video Directed by Baba Brinkman
Video Edited by Buck Bowen -
T.V.O.L. (This View of Life) – Baba Brinkman Music Video
From the new album "See From Space", available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/see-from-space
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Commissioned by TVOL Magazine
http://thisviewoflife.com
An anthem for the evolutionary view of life, which sees Darwinian processes working at multiple levels from genes to individuals to cultural artifacts and symbols, producing the amazing variety of complex behaviours and structures on display in the human and natural world, with no recourse to the supernatural at any level.
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Mr. Simmonds
Chorus Vocals by Aaron Nazrul
Additional Piano and Hammond Organ by Simon Kendall
Bass by Owen Strain
"Tree of Life" art by Evolution Posters
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Darwin Day - Baba Brinkman
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A rap tribute to Charles Darwin and to the biology teachers who carry on his legacy, shining a light on the patterns in nature and helping us to make sense of it all, scientifically. Commissioned by the NABT for their 75th Anniversary, and for Darwin Day 2014.
Clean version for younger audiences here: https://vimeo.com/86794461
Music by Soulful Spider
Filmed by Zachary Boozer
Written by Baba Brinkman
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Artificial Selection - Baba Brinkman - Rap Guide to Evolution Music Videos
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The Rap Guide to Evolution Music Videos, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust.
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Learn more: http://rapguidetoevolution.co.uk/artificial-selection
Lyrics and Performance by Baba Brinkman
Music by Soulful Spider
Chorus Vocals by Noa Bodner
Outro Cuts by Mr. Simmonds
Animated and Edited by Tommy Nagle
Supported by The Wellcome Trust -
Creationist Cousins - Baba Brinkman - Rap Guide to Evolution Music Videos
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The Rap Guide to Evolution Music Videos, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust.
Buy the album: http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-evolution
Learn more: http://rapguidetoevolution.co.uk/creationist-cousins
Lyrics and Performance by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Directed and Edited by Felix Harrison
Additional Editing by Tommy Nagle
Supported by The Wellcome Trust
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Veni Vidi Vici – Baba Brinkman (feat. Aaron Nazrul)
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Veni Vidi Vici
Written by D. Brinkman, T. Caruana, S. Kendall and A. Ross
Produced by Tom Caruana
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Chorus by Aaron Nazrul
Guitar by Andreas Schuld
Clavinet and accordion by Simon Kendall
Video by Nicholas Castel
Made with support from the Bookend Trust
http://www.bookendtrust.com
Thylacine footage used with permission from the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (Film - Tasmanian Tiger - original zoo footage AB869/1/2934)
Further reading:
https://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/
https://theconversation.com/extinction-just-how-bad-is-it-and-why-should-we-care-13751
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-true-worldwide-billions-annually.html -
WILD10 Rap Up - Baba Brinkman
This is a "rap up" performed for 1000 international delegates at the WILD10 World Wilderness Congress in Salamanca, Spain, October 2013. A "rap up" is a custom-written rap/poem composed during an event and performed as a summarizing conclusion, with no rehearsal or revision.
Previous examples include the NYU Darwin's Business conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04lgTwKW2DA
And the Minerva Foundation Berkeley Play conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6oqv2CF9y4
Contact bookings@bababrinkman.com to organize a custom performance. -
Baba Brinkman - Tranquility Bank ft. Aaron Nazrul
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http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-wilderness
This video was made with support from the Wild Foundation: http://wild.org -
IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 - Baba Brinkman's Final Rap Up
Rap artist Baba Brinkman summarises the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 in his own musical style!
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Confessions of a Skeptic – Baba Brinkman Music Video
New album "See From Space" available now:
Bandcamp: https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/see-from-space
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-from-space/1472326163
Skepticism and the scientific method are not articles of faith, but we can profess our devotion to them with no less fervor. Confess it!
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Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Piano and Organ by Simon Kendall
Video Edited by Buck Bowen
Video Directed by Baba Brinkman
Made with support from the Skeptics Society and from patrons on Patreon. -
Baba Brinkman
Backstage at Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People.
Filmed by Nathalie McDermott (natmc) for www.newhumanist.org.uk (@newhumanist) -
Off That (Rationalist Anthem) - Baba Brinkman
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Annotate the lyrics at: http://rapgenius.com/Baba-brinkman-off-that-rationalist-anthem-lyrics
Track download available from Bandcamp:
http://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/track/off-that-rationalist-anthem
"Off That" is a Geek Pop Festival exclusive produced by Mr Simmonds, lyrics by Baba Brinkman, animation by Tommy Nagle, special thanks to Caspar and Paul at New Humanist Magazine for consultation and images. Oh yeah, and thanks to Jay-Z and Timbaland for the inspiration : )
PS - if you want to know where the God Trumps came from they are on the New Humanist website: http://newhumanist.org.uk/
http://www.mrsimmondsmusic.com
http://www.tommynagle.com/
http://www.geekpop.co.uk
http://www.newhumanist.org.uk
http://www.badscience.net
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk
http://www.libelreform.org
http://www.1023.org.uk -
Baba Brinkman - NECSS 2014 "Rap Up"
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Baba Brinkman's Skeptic Rap (world premiere)
Sumptuous brain food.
Rap with an intellectual bent.
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist based in New York. He is best known for his "Rap Guide" series of science-based hip-hop albums and theatre shows, including Rap Guides to Evolution, Climate Change, and Religion. Check him out at:
http://bababrinkman.com
http://music.bababrinkman.com
https://twitter.com/bababrinkman
https://www.facebook.com/bababrinkman
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The world premiere of this rap was performed at a live variety science show hosted by Dr. Michael Shermer, in partnership with YouTube Space NY in late September 2017, celebrating 25 years of Skeptic magazine and the Skeptics Society combating ‘fake news.’ The event explored the question: ‘How Can We Know What’s True?’.
The Skeptics Society is one of America’s leading non-profit science education organizations. For the past quarter century, our mission has been to ensure that the information surrounding the world’s biggest controversies is properly communicated. For so many issues: from evolution and the Holocaust, to climate and vaccinations, to alternative medicine and alternative archaeology, to religion and politics, to policy-making and economics, the ultimate question is: is it really true?
Check us out at:
https://www.skeptic.com
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