Performance, Feedback, Revision

Baba Brinkman might just be the smartest rapper out there. I recommend you listen to his entire Rap Guide to Evolution album, but this track stands out.

How is tweaking a lyric just like natural selection? Creativity and mutation leads to performance, selection or audiences provide feedback, and the genome or the rapper continue to revise. 

This. Is. Awesome.

Evolution is really just kind of an algorithm that goes like this: Performance, Feedback, Revision

(If you’re more into classical literature, Baba Brinkman also took a stab at The Canterbury Tales)

Source: youtube.com

The NWA of DNA

I’ve talked about Baba Brinkman before, the Evolutionary MC. This past year or so has been a huge one for this science-minded rapper, with a live show off-Broadway in NYC and an album of evolution-inspired rap songs funded by The Wellcome Trust. It’s good, too.

Above is his ode to DNA, the code that underlies all life. Many more videos of his at the link above.

(via Creatology, Scientific American Blog Network)

Source: blogs.scientificamerican.com

Hey NYC Tumblr friends! You have a treat going down in your town this month!

The world’s greatest (and only) evolutionary rapper, Baba Brinkman, has opened his live show The Rap Guide to Evolution at Soho Playhouse. It’s an award-winning hip-hop journey through evolutionary biology, and you should see this.

Maybe we should get David and the Tumblr Staff out on a little field trip to go see this and get some Science up in ‘em. Lookin’ at you here, Strle (science editor and staffer)!

Check out the video from TEDxKids above to see what you’re in for. 

“Perfomance, feedback, revision.”

Source: youtube.com