Baba Brinkman raps up Geek Week on the Rachel Maddow show!

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It is so cool to see Baba Brinkman hit the mainstream media now, after wowing so many of us in smaller shows around the world. We were lucky to get him on our campus early in the Darwin Bicentennial year, when he was performing at the Fresno Rogue Festival. Great to see Rachel Maddow putting him on to rap up her first Geek Week!

What next? The Colbert Report, dare one hope? I'd love to see that rap duel, wouldn't you?

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An evolutionary retrospective on 2009 from rapper Baba Brinkman

Our favorite evolved rapper, Baba Brinkman, who had us rapt in Fresno last February with his Rap Guide to Evolution, offers his retrospective of the just concluded year when we celebrated Charles Darwin's Bicentennial, and the sesquicentennial of a little book he wrote:

Neo-simians,

In the final hours of 2009, let us take a moment to reflect on this: up until 150 years ago, no one had the faintest idea why we look like we do, why we act like we do, or where we came from. Now we know, and we have Charles Darwin to thank. Three cheers!

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