PLAYLISTS
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Science of Science – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The science of science, aka SciSci, is the study of statistical trends in scientific publication, citation, innovation, and productivity, measuring the impact of individual papers, researchers, and teams working in collaboration from partners to co-authorship in the hundreds.
Learn more about the subject:
https://www.dashunwang.com/book/the-science-of-science
Made with support from the Center for Science of Science and Innovation at Northwestern University:
https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/science-of-science.aspx
Learn more about Book Summary raps and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/book-summary -
Real Recognize Real – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The neuroscience of consciousness faces a singular challenge: explain human subjective experience as a product of material processes in the brain, just physical stuff pushing physical stuff. Is that a hard problem? No problem.
From the album "The Rap Guide to Consciousness" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-consciousness
Scientific consultation by Prof Anil Seth:
https://www.anilseth.com/being-you/
Made with support from the University of Sussex
Learn more about Event Rap and book a custom rap video:
https://www.eventrap.com/ -
Stirling Engine – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The humble Stirling Engine was invented in 1816 by Scottish Engineer Sir Robert Stirling and for almost 200 years it failed to find widespread commercial applications. Now, this "little engine that could" is having a renaissance, like a slept-on rapper with an improbable path to stardom.
From the 2021 album "Bright Future", available on vinyl, CD, and digital:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/bright-future
Made with support from Qnergy:
https://www.qnergy.com/
Learn more about Baba Brinkman and custom rap videos:
https://www.eventrap.com/
Learn more about Stirling Engines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine
Track Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Mr. Simmonds
Video by Anna C. Gilmore
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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
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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)
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TEP Rap Up - The Compass
This rap by Baba Brinkman summarizes the ideas from The Entrepreneur's Playbook / Entrepreneurial Strategy class -- https://www.ent-strategy.org/
Learn more about Baba Brinkman and Rap Up sets at https://www.eventrap.com/ -
Contentment Foundation – Baba Brinkman Rap Up
Baba Brinkman attends the 2022 "State of the Union" meeting for the Contentment Foundation and creates an on-site rap summary of their mission and new initiatives.
Learn more about the Contentment Foundation:
https://www.contentment.org/
Learn more about rap ups and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/ -
AirMiners Conference Rap Up - Baba Brinkman (May 13th, 2020)
May 13th, 2020
Rap Up performed LIVE by the incredible Baba Brinkman: https://bababrinkman.com/
At the AirMiners Conference: Foundations for a Carbon Negative Future http://airminers.org/
Our Zoom audience of 300+ attendees LOVED it
"Baba is a master"
"that rhyme with carbonic anhydrase is a mic drop"
"Baba! Blow my mind! Genius!"
"Baba killing it!"
"Baba soaked up knowledge like a sponge, how does he do it?"
"Skillz on the mic, yo!"
Featuring inspiration from:
Kim Stanley Robinson : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson
Dr. Klaus Lackner : https://www.linkedin.com/in/klaus-lackner/
Dr. Lisa Dyson : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dysonlisa/
The Seastars : http://theseastars.com/
Alexsandra Guerrera : https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexsandraguerra/
Eri Gentry : https://www.linkedin.com/in/erigentry/
Nicholas Eisenberger : https://www.linkedin.com/in/neisenberger/
Diego Saez-Gil (Pachama): https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsaezgil/
Heidi Lim (Opus 12): https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidiheidilim/
Dr. Peter Eisenberger (Global Thermostat): https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-eisenberger-17322766/
Christian Shearer (Regen Networks): https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-shearer-b8877312/
Daniel Egger (Climeworks): https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-egger-b16ba5174/
Jason Grillo : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasongrillo/
Tito Jankowski : https://www.linkedin.com/in/titojankowski/
Beat by Mr. Simmonds http://mrsimmonds.com/
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Event Rap Kickstarter Video
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bababrinkman/event-rap-the-one-stop-custom-rap-shop
Support the launch of my new company (and new album) on Kickstarter April 27 - May 27 2021.
Learn more about Event Rap: https://linktr.ee/EventRap -
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
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Molten Salt – Lyric Video
From the album "Bright Future", out now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/bright-future
https://linktr.ee/bababrinkman
Molten Salt Reactors are a potentially game-changing energy and heat-generating technology, significantly safer than current Light Water Reactor nuclear power, which itself is already way safer – both for human health and climate change – than fossil fuel-generated electricity.
Cheap, safe, unlimited energy, let's make it happen!
Further Reading:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/nuclear-technology-abandoned-decades-ago-might-give-us-safer-smaller-reactors
Further Reflection:
https://gotnuclear.net/
Made with support from Generation Atomic and the Thorium Energy Alliance.
https://www.generationatomic.org/ / https://thoriumenergyalliance.com/ -
Parasite Wars – Lyric Video
Infectious diseases are the product of a co-evolutionary arms race between parasites and their hosts. From the album "The Rap Guide to Medicine".
Download and Stream the Track:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/track/parasite-wars
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ymAPVv5m0vlMWTf3CtICu?si=T9Q6hvryRKOpJm5Zd5uBrg
Further Reading:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150316-ten-parasites-that-control-minds
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/mammals-made-by-viruses#.VQcoAkJ3FAs -
Bright Future – Lyric Video
Nuclear power is an essential part of any clean energy strategy to combat climate change.
Download and stream the track:
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/track/bright-future
Further reading:
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/climate-change-nuclear-power.html
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/11/25/nuclear-power-does-slow-climate-change/#65e315d47202
• https://www.generationatomic.org/why-nuclear
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Mr. Simmonds
Chorus Vocals by Eric Meyer
Made with support from Generation Atomic
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CARTA – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Baba Brinkman tells the story of CARTA, the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny, a research unit at UCSD that supports multidisciplinary collaboration on the scientific study of human origins.
Learn more about CARTA:
https://carta.anthropogeny.org/
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/ -
Science of Science – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The science of science, aka SciSci, is the study of statistical trends in scientific publication, citation, innovation, and productivity, measuring the impact of individual papers, researchers, and teams working in collaboration from partners to co-authorship in the hundreds.
Learn more about the subject:
https://www.dashunwang.com/book/the-science-of-science
Made with support from the Center for Science of Science and Innovation at Northwestern University:
https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/science-of-science.aspx
Learn more about Book Summary raps and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/book-summary -
Real Recognize Real – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The neuroscience of consciousness faces a singular challenge: explain human subjective experience as a product of material processes in the brain, just physical stuff pushing physical stuff. Is that a hard problem? No problem.
From the album "The Rap Guide to Consciousness" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-consciousness
Scientific consultation by Prof Anil Seth:
https://www.anilseth.com/being-you/
Made with support from the University of Sussex
Learn more about Event Rap and book a custom rap video:
https://www.eventrap.com/
TOPICS
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Dylan – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The evolution of consciousness begins with the evolution of cognitive and behavioral capacities, each wired up on a "need-to-know" basis for some adaptive purpose. So what is it helpful for a newborn to know?
From the 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 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 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
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This or That – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The world faces a stark choice, rapidly phase out fossil fuel use, or suffer the ecological, economic, and human consequences of catastrophic climate change. What's it going to be, this or that?
Endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty:
https://fossilfueltreaty.org/
Baba Brinkman live at COP26 November 9, 2021:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/baba-brinkman-live-at-cop26-tickets-189761671267
From the album The Rap Guide to Climate Chaos (2016):
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-climate-chaos
Inspired by the original song "The Choice is Yours" by Black Sheep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9F5xcpjDMU
Credits:
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Cuts by Corey J fka Illspokinn
Piano and Organ by Simon Kendall
Vocal Mix & Master by Mr. Simmonds
Instrumental Mix by Tom Caruana
Instrumental Master by Mozu Mastering
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Cloud Feedback – Baba Brinkman Music Video
From the album "Bright Future", out now:
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/bright-future
https://linktr.ee/bababrinkman
The wide range of possible warming scenarios found in climate models is mostly due to cloud feedback effects, which both influence global temperature and also respond to it. We just need clouds to spill their secrets.
Further Reading:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-low-end-climate-sensitivity-can-now-be-ruled-out
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/world-without-clouds-hardly-clear-climate-scientists-say
Track Produced and Mixed by Tom Caruana
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Chorus by Skillz FJ
Guitar and Additional Percussion by Skillz FJ
Keys by Simon Kendall
Scientific Consultation by Stefan Buehler, University of Hamburg
Caption Translations by:
German: Sabrina Harich / Stefan Buehler
Italian: Nico Cimini
Spanish: Yanmichel Morfa Avalos
Brazilian Portuguese: David Marcolino Nielsen
Korean: Doyeon Kim / Yechul Shin / Hanjun Kim
Chinese: Ge Cheng
Made with Support from
The German Research Foundation
aka The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Under Germany’s Excellence Strategy, EXC 2037
CLICCS: Climate, Climatic Change, and Society
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Greenhouse Effect – Baba Brinkman Music Video
A hip-hop history of the past two centuries of climate science discoveries.
Download or Stream the Track
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
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Andrew Murray – Baba Brinkman Music Video
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)
Download "The Rap Guide to Religion" album:
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-religion
Support my videos on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/bababrinkman -
Religion Evolves – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Evolutionary religious studies devises and tests scientific hypotheses that help to explain the origins and details of the complex behaviors we associate with faith traditions across cultures. Even if we aren't sure how exactly genes and culture come together to make happen, one thing we can be sure of is this: 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 -
God of the Gaps – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The earliest evolutionary origins of religion probably lie in a highly adaptive "agency detection" bias in our brains, a tendency to see minds and intentions where there are none, just to be safe.
"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/
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Parasite Wars – Lyric Video
Infectious diseases are the product of a co-evolutionary arms race between parasites and their hosts. From the album "The Rap Guide to Medicine".
Download and Stream the Track:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/track/parasite-wars
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ymAPVv5m0vlMWTf3CtICu?si=T9Q6hvryRKOpJm5Zd5uBrg
Further Reading:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150316-ten-parasites-that-control-minds
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/mammals-made-by-viruses#.VQcoAkJ3FAs -
Revenge of the Somatic – Baba Brinkman Music Video
A cancer cell rebels against the tyranny of the body, revealing the hidden evolutionary logic behind carcinogenesis.
Download and Stream:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/track/revenge-of-the-somatic-2
https://music.apple.com/us/album/revenge-of-the-somatic/979284324?i=979284825
https://open.spotify.com/track/7yIptNDl9az4joEsfP6zNi?si=B27hVlrKRrmM0dDpuBLmgA
https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-of-the-Somatic/dp/B00V3YA41W
Further reading:
https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/cancer-has-been-with-us-since-the-origins-of-multicellularity.html
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691163840/the-cheating-cell
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/science/cellular-cheaters-give-rise-to-cancer.html
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Mr. Simmonds
Animation by Dave Anderson
Scientific Consultation by Athena Aktipis
Made with support from the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center
https://cancer-insights.asu.edu/ -
Stay Home – Baba Brinkman Music Video
From the album "Bright Future", out now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/bright-future
https://linktr.ee/bababrinkman
The science of the COVID-19 outbreak in rap format. Music video produced from home.
Sources:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56
Instrumental Sample Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7bobc-vRbQ
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Track Produced by Mr. Simmonds
Additional Bass by Mark Fitzpatrick
Video by Anna C. Gilmore
Featuring:
Akash Balaji, Alex Andorra, Anna Gilmore, Atticus Ratan, Carl Bergstrom, Chelsea Grunert, Chuck Nice, Colin Wansink, Dan Paradies, Dante DeSantis, Dylan Brinkman, Evan Fitzpatrick, Georgia Wluka, Hannah Brinkman, Helen Bergstrom, Isla Luskoff, Janelle London, Jesse Rifkin, Jordan Luskoff, Laura Wheeler, Leslie Peone, Lillian Peone, Lin Gardiner, Lucie Pohl, Luke Grunert, Madhusudan Katti, Mariella Price, Mark Fitzpatrick, Mark Pallen, Mason Fitzpatrick, MC Lars, Mike Carter, Mollie Pettit, Myq Kaplan, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Nate Lombardi, Noelle Janasiewicz, Raylan Peone, Richard Lenski, Robby Ratan, Robert Brinkmann, Roberto De Jesus, Sanzari Aranyak, Shanique Alladen, Tad Johnson, Thelonius Ratan, Tom Frew, Vivienne Wluka, Will Naameh
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Ballad of a Zombie – Baba Brinkman Music Video
From the album "Bright Future", out now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/bright-future
https://linktr.ee/bababrinkman
A zombie anthem exploring the evolutionary science of parasitism, from pathogens to social media.
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
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Parasite Wars – Lyric Video
Infectious diseases are the product of a co-evolutionary arms race between parasites and their hosts. From the album "The Rap Guide to Medicine".
Download and Stream the Track:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/track/parasite-wars
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ymAPVv5m0vlMWTf3CtICu?si=T9Q6hvryRKOpJm5Zd5uBrg
Further Reading:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150316-ten-parasites-that-control-minds
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/mammals-made-by-viruses#.VQcoAkJ3FAs -
Revenge of the Somatic – Baba Brinkman Music Video
A cancer cell rebels against the tyranny of the body, revealing the hidden evolutionary logic behind carcinogenesis.
Download and Stream:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/track/revenge-of-the-somatic-2
https://music.apple.com/us/album/revenge-of-the-somatic/979284324?i=979284825
https://open.spotify.com/track/7yIptNDl9az4joEsfP6zNi?si=B27hVlrKRrmM0dDpuBLmgA
https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-of-the-Somatic/dp/B00V3YA41W
Further reading:
https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/cancer-has-been-with-us-since-the-origins-of-multicellularity.html
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691163840/the-cheating-cell
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/science/cellular-cheaters-give-rise-to-cancer.html
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Mr. Simmonds
Animation by Dave Anderson
Scientific Consultation by Athena Aktipis
Made with support from the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center
https://cancer-insights.asu.edu/
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Veni Vidi Vici – Baba Brinkman (feat. Aaron Nazrul)
Support my videos on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/bababrinkman
Download The Rap Guide to Wilderness:
http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-wilderness
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 -
Baba Brinkman - Tranquility Bank ft. Aaron Nazrul
Recharge your batteries in nature, periodically.
Buy this track from iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-rap-guide-to-wilderness/id940111159
Download The Rap Guide to Wilderness:
http://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-wilderness
This video was made with support from the Wild Foundation: http://wild.org -
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.
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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. -
Off That (Rationalist Anthem) - Baba Brinkman
Track available from Bandcamp:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/track/still-off-that
Released in 2010, "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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Data Science – Baba Brinkman Music Video
From the album "Bright Future", out now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/bright-future
https://linktr.ee/bababrinkman
Rap battle between a data scientist and a classical statistician, arguing for predictive algorithmic models versus inferential data models respectively.
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.nature.com/articles/nmeth.4642
Music Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Mr. Simmonds
Video by Haley Monson
Made with support from alteryx -
Stirling Engine – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The humble Stirling Engine was invented in 1816 by Scottish Engineer Sir Robert Stirling and for almost 200 years it failed to find widespread commercial applications. Now, this "little engine that could" is having a renaissance, like a slept-on rapper with an improbable path to stardom.
From the 2021 album "Bright Future", available on vinyl, CD, and digital:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/bright-future
Made with support from Qnergy:
https://www.qnergy.com/
Learn more about Baba Brinkman and custom rap videos:
https://www.eventrap.com/
Learn more about Stirling Engines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine
Track Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Mr. Simmonds
Video by Anna C. Gilmore -
Qubits – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Quantum computers can now perform certain kinds of tasks faster than the world's most powerful classical computers, and quantum processing power doubles with each new qubit (quantum bit) added to the system. How high can an exponential go?
Further Reading:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/biggest-flipping-challenge-quantum-computing
From the album "Bright Future", out now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/bright-future
Track Produced and Mixed by Mr. Simmonds
Additional Vocals by Jessie Davis
Video by Anna C. Gilmore
The song "Qubits" was written and produced on commission with support from the Google Quantum AI Lab and premiered at the Google Quantum Summer Symposium 2020, along with this freestyle set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YhjWhpq71Y
And this rap up performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AuT2dShMeA
Learn more about rap ups, custom raps, and freestyle sets:
https://www.eventrap.com/