http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/n...nce-through-hip-hop.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
shyt might've just got a little too post-modern. Some highlights:
Christopher Emdin is a Columbia University professor who likes to declaim Newtons laws in rhyme
GZA, 46, who was born Gary Grice, had just finished an extraordinary round of meetings with physicists at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, culling ideas for a coming solo album about the cosmos.
You never know, Gza said of their collaboration. This could turn into something in the future as big as the spelling bee.
A hip-hop cypher is the perfect pedagogical moment, where someones at the helm of a conversation, and then one person stops and another picks up, Dr. Emdin said, his checked bow tie bobbing under his chin. Theres equal turns at talking. When somebody has a great line, the whole audience makes a whoo, which is positive reinforcement.
Unique Clay rapped about hearing gunshots while he wrote his rhymes; Michael Johnson rapped about an abused 6-year-old; Cai Moore punned on the name Peter Piper, but fizzled after a few lines; Anna Zivian, a teacher, rapped about having three mothers.
Dr. Tyson, the planetarium director, said he saw a thread of science geekery lurking in hip-hop, where delivering knowledge is called dropping science.
shyt might've just got a little too post-modern. Some highlights:
Christopher Emdin is a Columbia University professor who likes to declaim Newtons laws in rhyme
GZA, 46, who was born Gary Grice, had just finished an extraordinary round of meetings with physicists at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, culling ideas for a coming solo album about the cosmos.
You never know, Gza said of their collaboration. This could turn into something in the future as big as the spelling bee.
A hip-hop cypher is the perfect pedagogical moment, where someones at the helm of a conversation, and then one person stops and another picks up, Dr. Emdin said, his checked bow tie bobbing under his chin. Theres equal turns at talking. When somebody has a great line, the whole audience makes a whoo, which is positive reinforcement.
Unique Clay rapped about hearing gunshots while he wrote his rhymes; Michael Johnson rapped about an abused 6-year-old; Cai Moore punned on the name Peter Piper, but fizzled after a few lines; Anna Zivian, a teacher, rapped about having three mothers.
Dr. Tyson, the planetarium director, said he saw a thread of science geekery lurking in hip-hop, where delivering knowledge is called dropping science.
