In the early 1990s, a scandal rocked evolutionary biology: scientists discovered that songbirds — once thought to be strictly monogamous — engaged in what's politely called "extra-pair copulation." In this unforgettable biology lesson on animal infidelity, TED Fellow Danielle N. Lee shows how she uses hip-hop to teach science, leading the crowd in an updated version of Naughty by Nature's hit "O.P.P."
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your father i mean hip hop raps about murder and drugs more than any other genre. Name another genre that does?
+Louis Cotteta Metal. If hip-hops subject matter was half as explicit as metals is, it would be banned. But even if hip hop does have a fair share of songs about drugs and gangbanging, it’s still not fair to just dismiss the genre. Some of the best musicians of this generation are hip-hop artists.
your father Fair, metal has some horrible undertones and I would rank it as second worst (under hip-hop). The reason is because hip hop is a lot more widely listened to and normalized into our culture. I appreciate the civil response 🙂
Louis Cotteta
I agree with you but it wasn’t black artist that self promoted gangsta rap, at least not at first.
People will sell whatever there is a demand for, TV, Hollywood or record labels all push extremist
Media because of societies demand that makes these acceptable.
Mike C i dont think it has anything to do with the color of the consumers. It has to do with hip-hop being so mainstream and accessible to so many people
Lol
Fun video…taught me nothing about how hip hop helps people learn science though
because it doesn’t you’re just bein click baited
A thank you for a word “click bait” . I study english in Korea and you tube is a good thing to develop my english skills.
there we go….
How Snoop Dogg teach us m- theory
Marijuana theory?
@D.O.A. m theory is a theory that unifies all dimensional string theories into an overarching model
This is super fun, but the central premise is fairly flimsy.
u can’t touch this.
GZA for the followup?
Amusing, but a bit of a reach.
haw ya doing?
It’s sad to see how many people jumped to conclusions and disliked the video before even watching it wow
What did you learn about hip-hop and it’s direct correlation to science understanding from this TED talk?
Ted Pop Culture.
I do not like hip hop…but…cool video I guess…
Just clicked to see how many thumbs down there are. I am not disappointed. haha
Any tool that can improve learning and knowledge retention is, by its basic definition, good!
Who is “us”?
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