PLAYLISTS
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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/
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/ -
I'm Human – Baba Brinkman Music Video
What's a human? Just an altered ape with a few novel traits and solutions.
Baba Brinkman unpacks some of the findings and also some of the unanswered questions in the field of "Anthropogeny" aka the Study of Human Origins.
Filmed on location in the Rising Star caves, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, with cinematography by Lee Berger, John Hawkes, and Patrick Randolph-Quinney.
Made with support from CARTA:
https://carta.anthropogeny.org/
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/rapsode -
Insulate It – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Buildings are 40% of emissions and 90% of the ones that we live in today are gonna be with us after 2050, so get them insulated!
Baba Brinkman breaks down the science and the rationally-compelling but unsexy appeal of retrofit insulation as a key factor in emission reductions to combat climate change.
Made with support from University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder County, and the City of Boulder.
Learn more about the topic:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-20/climate-change-insulation-hvac-are-construction-solutions-to-emissions
Learn more about sustainability initiatives in Boulder City and County:
https://bouldercounty.gov/environment/sustainability/
https://bouldercolorado.gov/future-climate-action
Learn more about CU Boulder "Inside the Greenhouse"
https://insidethegreenhouse.org/
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/rapsode
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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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Wizard of Odds – Baba Brinkman Lyric Video
The science of "predictive processing" reveals how our brains engaged in a constant cycle of prediction and error-correction, comparing the "expectations" generated by internal top-down mental models with the streams of bottom-up raw data coming in from the senses, the body, and surrounding environment.
In other words, perception is a form of controlled hallucination, and hallucination is a form of uncontrolled (or less-controlled) perception.
How else could a blind lump of meat in a silent boney cage make sense of the world?
Scientific consultation by Anil Seth:
https://www.anilseth.com/
Learn more about book summary raps made on commission and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/book-summary/
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Chorus Vocals by Aaron Ross
Keys by Simon Kendall
From the album "The Rap Guide to Consciousness":
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-consciousness -
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
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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/
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/ -
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
Learn more about custom raps and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/rapsode -
Insulate It – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Buildings are 40% of emissions and 90% of the ones that we live in today are gonna be with us after 2050, so get them insulated!
Baba Brinkman breaks down the science and the rationally-compelling but unsexy appeal of retrofit insulation as a key factor in emission reductions to combat climate change.
Made with support from University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder County, and the City of Boulder.
Learn more about the topic:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-20/climate-change-insulation-hvac-are-construction-solutions-to-emissions
Learn more about sustainability initiatives in Boulder City and County:
https://bouldercounty.gov/environment/sustainability/
https://bouldercolorado.gov/future-climate-action
Learn more about CU Boulder "Inside the Greenhouse"
https://insidethegreenhouse.org/
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/rapsode
TOPICS
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Can't Stop Remix (feat Mariella) – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Featuring world-renowned philosophers and scientists, "Free Will? A Documentary" is an in-depth investigation into the most profound philosophical debate of all time: Do we have free will?
Watch the film now:
https://www.freewilldocumentary.com/watch
Version Without Lyrics:
https://youtu.be/uDfrRUXZ7Ww
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Remix from the album "See From Space" (2019):
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/see-from-space
Original track from "The Rap Guide to Consciousness" (2018):
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-consciousness
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Chorus Vocals by Mariella
https://www.instagram.com/coldiehawn/
Produced and Mixed by Lin Gardiner
Original Beat Produced by Dan Moross
Cuts by Mr. Simmonds
Featuring:
Coleman Hughes
Massimo Pigliucci
Heather Berlin
Dan Dennett
Alex O’Connor
Sean Carroll
Derk Pereboom
And John Kirbow as the bar manager
Quantum Animation Credit: www.toutestquantique.fr
Digger Wasp Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbnbFQxVRtw
#freewill #physics #dandennett #seancarroll #neuroscience #philosophy -
Wizard of Odds – Baba Brinkman Lyric Video
The science of "predictive processing" reveals how our brains engaged in a constant cycle of prediction and error-correction, comparing the "expectations" generated by internal top-down mental models with the streams of bottom-up raw data coming in from the senses, the body, and surrounding environment.
In other words, perception is a form of controlled hallucination, and hallucination is a form of uncontrolled (or less-controlled) perception.
How else could a blind lump of meat in a silent boney cage make sense of the world?
Scientific consultation by Anil Seth:
https://www.anilseth.com/
Learn more about book summary raps made on commission and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/book-summary/
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Chorus Vocals by Aaron Ross
Keys by Simon Kendall
From the album "The Rap Guide to Consciousness":
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-consciousness -
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/
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Insulate It – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Buildings are 40% of emissions and 90% of the ones that we live in today are gonna be with us after 2050, so get them insulated!
Baba Brinkman breaks down the science and the rationally-compelling but unsexy appeal of retrofit insulation as a key factor in emission reductions to combat climate change.
Made with support from University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder County, and the City of Boulder.
Learn more about the topic:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-20/climate-change-insulation-hvac-are-construction-solutions-to-emissions
Learn more about sustainability initiatives in Boulder City and County:
https://bouldercounty.gov/environment/sustainability/
https://bouldercolorado.gov/future-climate-action
Learn more about CU Boulder "Inside the Greenhouse"
https://insidethegreenhouse.org/
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/rapsode -
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
Project Number: 390683824 -
Offsetters – Baba Brinkman Music Video
When organizations go "carbon neutral", the hardest emissions to curb are generally 'offset' with carbon removal and pollution reduction projects where cuts can be made more affordably, leading to a massive 'carbon market' trading in credits of various kinds. Can we trust it? And does it actually make net emissions go down, or is it the ultimate greenwash?
Whatever you believe about the industry, the offsetters are not backing down.
Further reading:
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/are-carbon-offsets-joke-response-comedian-john-oliver
Made with support from Agendi:
https://agendi.co/
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/rapsode
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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 -
Patients Waiting – Baba Brinkman Lyric Video
There are thousands of inherited diseases caused by mutations in key metabolic genes, of which just one is Niemann-Pick C, part of a family of lysosomal storage disorders involving lipid transfer in cells.
The CRISPR revolution is at hand, and there are many many patients waiting for it to succeed. Let's go!
Bonus track from the album The Rap Guide to Medicine:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-medicine
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Mr. Simmonds
Video by Rob Penczak
Scientific Consultation by Ethan Perlstein
Song made with support from Perlara:
https://www.perlara.com/
Video made with support from Synthego:
https://www.synthego.com/ -
Baba Brinkman – Gene's Eye View
To understand the origins of genetic diseases, and to help treat and cure them, you have to take the gene's eye view.
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
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I'm Human – Baba Brinkman Music Video
What's a human? Just an altered ape with a few novel traits and solutions.
Baba Brinkman unpacks some of the findings and also some of the unanswered questions in the field of "Anthropogeny" aka the Study of Human Origins.
Filmed on location in the Rising Star caves, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, with cinematography by Lee Berger, John Hawkes, and Patrick Randolph-Quinney.
Made with support from CARTA:
https://carta.anthropogeny.org/
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/rapsode -
Control Systems – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Understanding mental health requires a clear view of how the brain was designed by natural selection, and what it was designed to accomplish.
Further Reading:
https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2021/10/evolutionary-medicine-needs-engineering-expertise
Scientific Consultation by Randy Nesse
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/rapsode -
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
http://www.zombiemed.org/
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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
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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://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alter-Everything/43-Data-science-through-the-eyes-of-statisticians/ba-p/468226
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 -
You Must LENR – Baba Brinkman Music Video
An anthem for the mavericks who continue to scientifically investigate the field of LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) also known as "cold fusion", even in the face of mainstream dismissal. If (or when) they manage to get it to work, we will owe them our gratitude.
Made with support from The Anthropocene Institute and ICCF24:
https://www.iccf24.org/
Learn more about Custom Rap Videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/rapsode
Further Reading:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01683-9
https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/science/lattice-confinement-fusion/#nasa-detects-lattic%20E-confinement-fusion
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-fusion-or-low-energy-nuclear-reactions-us-navy-researchers-reopen-case
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/events/low-energy-nuclear-reactions-workshop -
Cold Fusion Renaissance – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The phenomenon known as "cold fusion" is getting a second look from several world-class scientific research bodies. Maybe we should take a second look at it as well.
Made with support from The Anthropocene Institute and ICCF24:
https://www.iccf24.org/
Learn more about Custom Rap Videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
From the 2023 album "Rapsode" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/rapsode
Further Reading:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01683-9
https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/science/lattice-confinement-fusion/#nasa-detects-lattic%20E-confinement-fusion
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-fusion-or-low-energy-nuclear-reactions-us-navy-researchers-reopen-case
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/events/low-energy-nuclear-reactions-workshop