{"id":336647,"date":"2010-02-18T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=11835"},"modified":"2010-02-18T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:05:07","slug":"evolution-that%e2%80%99s-a-rap-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/336647","title":{"rendered":"Evolution: that\u2019s a rap | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met Baba Brinkman at TAM London, and wasn&#8217;t sure what to make of him. He&#8217;s a big guy, noticeably white, and raps. About evolution.<\/p>\n<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&#8217;s the real deal. He&#8217;s a great rapper, spontaneous, funny, and very intelligent. He had everyone in the audience rapping with him, which was awesome to behold. <\/p>\n<p>And, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2010\/02\/15\/the-rap-guide-to-evolution\/\">via Hemant Mehta&#8217;s The Friendly Atheist blog<\/a>, you can <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VM9nNa84U24\">see for yourself<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VM9nNa84U24&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/iframe><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Cool. If you get a chance to see him perform, take it. <\/p>\n<p>Word<sup><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~3\/wTKokn-t2JA\/#footnote\">*<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"footnote\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\">\n<font size=\"-2\"><em><sup>*<\/sup> Or whatever the kids these days are saying when they&#8217;re on my lawn.<\/em><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W9OL9-P79v9ZWhEhy2mSo5-VslY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W9OL9-P79v9ZWhEhy2mSo5-VslY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W9OL9-P79v9ZWhEhy2mSo5-VslY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W9OL9-P79v9ZWhEhy2mSo5-VslY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/BvXG_mSDOvk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/wTKokn-t2JA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Baba Brinkman at TAM London, and wasn&#8217;t sure what to make of him. He&#8217;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 performed on stage I was attentive, and my scientific curiosity was quickly satisfied: he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}