"Darwin supporters use cartoons and rap music to push their message to humans—and aliens.
Without choking or spitting, Jon Cohen reports for Science Magazine, “Here’s what happens when you combine science with hip hop, comic books, and zombies.” His smile seems to suggest that he thinks this is a great idea. Whatever gets the YouTube culture to accept evolution can’t be all bad:
Remember when the first life was cells in soup? Now they’re everywhere from my brain to the chicken coop. Those were lyrics a middle school science teacher threw down at “Comics, Zombies, and Hip-Hop”, a session today at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science).
Over at NASA-funded Astrobiology Magazine, the cartoon series “The Abominable Snow Aliens of Europa” is up to episode 19. The NASA astrobiologists are very excited to be spending taxpayer dollars this way:
National Geographic elaborated on the theme, “We are stardust,” with a hat tip to Joni Mitchell at Woodstock. Reporter Simon Worrall gives Karel and Iris Schrijver an open mike in which to speculate on all the ways stardust effects are lives (after it formed us in the first place), based on their new book, Living With the Stars: How the Human Body Is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars. Joni Mitchell was right, Worrall says; “Was she ever!” is their reply, as they trace the human body back to primordial hydrogen and helium.
ABC News is worried about sending messages to the aliens. “Should We Call the Cosmos Seeking ET?” AP science writer Seth Borenstein asks. “Or Is That Risky?” Not to worry; the SETI researcher gang (Seth Shostak, Doug Vakoch, Frank Drake etc.) explain that by the time aliens pick up our signals, we’ll be long gone, goner than the Romans are to us." CEH
Without choking or spitting, Jon Cohen reports for Science Magazine, “Here’s what happens when you combine science with hip hop, comic books, and zombies.” His smile seems to suggest that he thinks this is a great idea. Whatever gets the YouTube culture to accept evolution can’t be all bad:
Remember when the first life was cells in soup? Now they’re everywhere from my brain to the chicken coop. Those were lyrics a middle school science teacher threw down at “Comics, Zombies, and Hip-Hop”, a session today at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science).
The teacher, Tom McFadden of the Nueva School in Hillsborough, California, explained how he builds enthusiasm for science by having his students write hip hop lyrics and then make videos. In a packed room at the meeting, he danced through an evolution song his students wrote, “This is How Life Builds from 3.5 ’Til,” – a send up of hip-hop act Souls of Mischief’s “’93 ’Til Infinity”. McFadden chanted:
So there’s this is [sic] little theory, some people fear it,
But if you want to know the history of life, you gotta hear it
Over at NASA-funded Astrobiology Magazine, the cartoon series “The Abominable Snow Aliens of Europa” is up to episode 19. The NASA astrobiologists are very excited to be spending taxpayer dollars this way:
Astrobiology Magazine is proud to launch a new comic strip, “The Abominable Snow Aliens of Europa.” This fictional series is inspired by the classic alien invasion tales of the early 20th century, and will visit science topics like terraforming, climate change, icy moons, alien communication, and “life as we know it.”
In episode 19, the evil U.S. military brass are about to launch an invasion against the Europa snowmen who are just trying to help earthlings fight global warming.National Geographic elaborated on the theme, “We are stardust,” with a hat tip to Joni Mitchell at Woodstock. Reporter Simon Worrall gives Karel and Iris Schrijver an open mike in which to speculate on all the ways stardust effects are lives (after it formed us in the first place), based on their new book, Living With the Stars: How the Human Body Is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars. Joni Mitchell was right, Worrall says; “Was she ever!” is their reply, as they trace the human body back to primordial hydrogen and helium.
ABC News is worried about sending messages to the aliens. “Should We Call the Cosmos Seeking ET?” AP science writer Seth Borenstein asks. “Or Is That Risky?” Not to worry; the SETI researcher gang (Seth Shostak, Doug Vakoch, Frank Drake etc.) explain that by the time aliens pick up our signals, we’ll be long gone, goner than the Romans are to us." CEH
I have seen the foolish taking root:
Job 5:3
