Rappin’ Science

Author: Heather Speckman, PhD candidate studying big data and tree physiology
Most rappers don’t rap statistics.
Most rappers don’t rap neuroscince.
Most rappers don’t rap natural selection.
Most rappers aren’t Baba Brinkman.

I don’t usually listen to rap.  But when I do, it’s Baba Brinkman.

When having a Bachelor’s degree isn’t enough, Baba Brinkman went the extra mile for a Master’s — in literature of all subjects!  Strange hobby for a guy who spent his years planting trees and studying primatology and human evolutions.  And then he went and married a neuroscientist!

For the last decade Baba Brinkman has map a living rapping about all sorts of subject from Canterbury Tales, evolution, climate change, Bayesian statistics, religion, DNA, and psychology.

You know, it seems strange for me to tell you about a showman.  So I’m just going let Baba Brinkman about genetics and heterozygote advantages:

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