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Jenny Slate, Drunk History s03e01

This week: Awkward dancing, first jobs & young love. Grandma Lill digs into her past: http://bit.ly/1iDajrc

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This week on #ChatterBoxPBS: Grandma Lill’s Drunk History spin-off. Stay tuned!

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NEW VIDEO! The Nature of Memory: An exploration of memory and forgetting.

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Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah travels to James Baldwin's home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, and examines the impact of a writer whose legacy cannot be erased.

This is long and fascinating read.

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Grandma’s home cooking meets microwaveable mini food this week on #ChatterBoxPBS: [WATCH HERE]

New Episode today! Watch Kevin & Grandma Lill swap recipes & experiment with Popin’ Cookin’ http://bit.ly/1iDajrc

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She Rockers, Islam B-Boys, and African Homeboy by Normski, 1987-88.

1980s hip hop style and attitude was often seen as a modern expression of black consciousness. The music culture had a large black following from its beginnings in the Harlem and South Bronx areas of New York, where there were large African American communities. The bold patterns of Kente-cloth, a traditional West African fabric, articulated the pride many people from the black Diaspora retained for their African heritage.

B-Boying is considered one of four original elements of hip hop, alongside rapping, DJing and graffiti. The term refers to break-boying; a style of street dance that originated in New York, largely among African Americans in the early 1970s. The B-Boy stance of leaning back with arms tightly folded was made famous by Run DMC. B-Boy fashion often featured branded trainers and baggy sports clothing, which would be customised to reflect individual identity.

Donna ‘She-Roc’ McConnell, Dupe Fagbesa and Alison ‘Betty Boo’ Clarkson made up the rap trio She Rockers. She Rockers worked with the American hip hop group Public Enemy, after performing an impromptu rap with them at a McDonalds in Shepherd’s Bush. The baseball jackets, snapback caps, Adidas high-top trainers and large earrings worn by the She Rockers show the way in which hip hop trends were adopted in Britain.

Behind the scenes: Grandma Lill mugs for the camera. #ChatterBoxPBS: http://bit.ly/1nB0Gwe

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B.o.B. WROTE A DISS TRACK TO PROVE TO NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON THAT THE EARTH IS ACTUALLY FLAT

It’s hard to argue with logic that is just words strung together, so maybe B.o.B. just made the smartest move of all.

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oh.

Hey, Science Tumblr, can we put together our own diss track?

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I got you, @sciencefriday.

Hey B.o.B. you ain’t beefin’ with just one guy Mess with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, you contending with Bill Nye I shouldn’t even have mention Galileo Galilei He’d drop you down a well if he were here to today Then we’d see how far down you go, to the center of the Earth Then you’d have to ‘pologize to the womb that gave you birth

Everything in nature comes back to a sphere Go and ask yourself what you should really fear Some global-ist conspiracy telling you lies Or walking round the Earth with bullshit in your eyes?

You’re ignoring the knowledge of generations, Bob, You’re in bed with evil popes and fallen nations, Bob You’re no better than the guys who quote Deuteronomy What happened, man, did you get D’s in Astronomy? You want to think in two dimensions, be my guest I’m in the corner with Copernicus, I stand with the best

Everything in nature comes back to a sphere Bob ask yourself, what should you really fear? Some global-ist conspiracy telling you lies? Or walking round the Earth with bullshit in your eyes?

Let’s take it back for a second here, why don’t we? Why do you believe in a flat Earth, B.o.B.? Why in the world did you pick this lie to back You could be rapping ‘bout getting us outta Iraq Or are you just having fun stirring the pot It sells records, who cares if you believe it or not Right?

Everything in nature comes back to a sphere You gotta ask yourself, what should you really fear? Some global-ist conspiracy telling you lies? Or walking round the Earth with bullshit in your eyes?

Flat-Earth and chem-trails and the Moon-landing hoax I’m so sick of celebrities making money off these jokes Listen Bob, as a rapper, I guess you’re kinda alright But can you tell me why the sky turns red at twilight? It’s all got to do with the shape of our atmosphere The operative part of that word, can you hear?

Everything in nature comes back to a sphere You gotta ask yourself, what should you really fear? Some global-ist conspiracy telling you lies? Or walking round the Earth with bullshit in your eyes?

Planets and atoms and eyes are all made of spheres Why is this a fact that you should have to fear? There’s no global-ist conspiracy telling us lies Just some mediocre rapper who can’t open his eyes

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WOAHHHHHHHHHH

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Microbes of New York - Small stories, big city

It’s #MicrobeWeek! Although tbh pretty much every week of your life depends on the millions of microbes in and on your body. This week is particularly special, though, because some our favorite science creators have come together with a special series of videos celebrating all the wee beasties that make up the sentient Petri dish you call “you”.

The first video (up top) from AMNH, Microbes of New York, has some fun with a particularly famous Tumblr while giving a voice to the true feelings of some biologically-important bacteria, ones involved in things like bad breath and obesity… and gentrification, apparently? You might recognize a couple voices in that one :) The AMNH has a new exhibit called The Secret World Inside You, open through August 2016 and dedicated to bringing the secrets of your microbiome to one of the world’s best museums.

Next, BrainCraft takes a look at the surprising connection between your sleep habits and your inner microbial health. It’s been said that our gut, full of nerves and hormone receptors, in combination with all the microbes that live there constitutes a sort of “second brain”. So it makes sense that how you sleep affects what happens down there.

In this Gross Science video, Anna peers deep into your oral cavity to tell you what actually causes cavities. You’ll also learn that the plaque film that forms on your teeth is nothing to necessarily be grossed out by, it’s just a cooperative living structure constructed by the couple hundred mouth microbes that reside in your food hole/smooch receptacle. Like any relationship, though, it can get out of balance and go bad, which is when Anna cues the gross dental pictures…

The final video, from Science Friday, is… um, well let’s just say that I have never once in my life thought about the fact that I am walking around and constantly shedding a fingerprint-like cloud of microbes like some sort of microscopic Pigpen…

…but now I can’t stop thinking about it.

Happy #MicrobeWeek!

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I love this collaboration. Get ready to be fascinated/terrified during Microbe Week!

Our new video is up! It takes time, dedication & a bit of magic to become a #YouTube star - get Kevin and Grandma’s 10 best tips: youtu.be/Pw2dXU5Tntk

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