{"id":1261,"date":"2012-06-13T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T15:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2012-06-13T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T15:17:02","slug":"better-science-communication-through-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/13\/better-science-communication-through-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Better Science Communication Through Hip-Hop&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3WjRDTn8hwk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1262\" title=\"Baba Video\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a>Canadian rap artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bababrinkman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baba Brinkman<\/a> riffed on mathematical biology this spring as NIMBioS <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/songwriter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Songwriter-in-Residence<\/a>. In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3WjRDTn8hwk\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>, Baba talks about what it&#8217;s like to be the bard of modern biology as resident songwriter at NIMBioS. The video also includes clips from his excerpted performance at the University of Tennessee of his award-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/rapguidetoevolution.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rap Guide to Evolution<\/a>, co-sponsored by NIMBioS and <a href=\"http:\/\/eeb.bio.utk.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UT&#8217;s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<\/a>. To listen to the song in its entirety, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/songwriter.html\" target=\"_blank\">NIMBioS songwriter webpage<\/a>. The track will be the lead single on Baba&#8217;s forthcoming &#8220;Informatic EP.&#8221; More tracks for NIMBioS are in the works. Baba has been busy since leaving NIMBioS. Just released is Baba&#8217;s newest Rap Guide to Evolution music video, <a href=\"http:\/\/rapguidetoevolution.co.uk\/artificial-selection\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cArtificial Selection,\u201d<\/a> the final in a series of ten produced with support from the UK\u2019s Wellcome Trust. Later this week, Baba will share a stage with Stephen Hawking as a part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlesciencefestival.org\/Luminaries-Series\/luminaries-series\" target=\"_blank\">Luminaries Series<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlesciencefestival.org\">Seattle Science Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian rap artist Baba Brinkman riffed on mathematical biology this spring as NIMBioS Songwriter-in-Residence. In this interview, Baba talks about what it&#8217;s like to be the bard of modern biology as resident songwriter at NIMBioS. The video also includes clips &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/13\/better-science-communication-through-hip-hop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}