http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 05:39:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/when-hip-hop-science-and-edu.html http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/when-hip-hop-science-and-edu.html#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:38:25 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=196982 Oh. Hell. Yes. Meanwhile, GZA is also working with a Columbia professor on an educational program that uses rhyme-writing and some of the cultural trappings of freestyle rap to teach science in New York City public schools. Oh, and it turns out that GZA is pronounced "Jiz-ah", and is derived from "genius". ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/when-hip-hop-science-and-edu.html/feed 19