{"id":9378,"date":"2010-02-20T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/evolution-that%e2%80%99s-a-rap-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-02-20T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T00:10:07","slug":"evolution-that%e2%80%99s-a-rap-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/evolution-that%e2%80%99s-a-rap-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Evolution: that\u2019s a rap | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met Baba Brinkman at TAM London, and wasn&rsquo;t sure what to make of him. He&rsquo;s a big guy, noticeably white, and raps. About evolution.<\/p><p>OK then. Well, being a skeptic I had to wait for the evidence. So when he performed on stage I was attentive, and my scientific curiosity was quickly satisfied: he&rsquo;s the real deal. He&rsquo;s a great rapper, spontaneous, funny, and very intelligent. He had everyone in the audience rapping with him, which was awesome to behold. <\/p><p>And, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2010\/02\/15\/the-rap-guide-to-evolution\/\">via Hemant Mehta&rsquo;s The Friendly Atheist blog<\/a>, you can <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VM9nNa84U24\">see for yourself<\/a>:<\/p><p><\/p><p>Cool. If you get a chance to see him perform, take it. <\/p><p>Word<sup><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=b1f7827b1dfe342d3c7cc9be64d477ac#footnote\">*<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"footnote\"><\/a><\/p><hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\"><em><sup>*<\/sup> Or whatever the kids these days are saying when they&rsquo;re on my lawn.<\/em> <p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W9OL9-P79v9ZWhEhy2mSo5-VslY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a09aa_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W9OL9-P79v9ZWhEhy2mSo5-VslY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a09aa_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a09aa_BvXG_mSDOvk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a09aa_wTKokn-t2JA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Baba Brinkman at TAM London, and wasn&rsquo;t sure what to make of him. He&rsquo;s a big guy, noticeably white, and raps. About evolution.OK then. Well, being a skeptic I had to wait for the evidence. So when he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/evolution-that%e2%80%99s-a-rap-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}