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Science Outreach via Rap + “Particle Business” Mastering

August 24th, 2009 | By 49

The “Science Outreach via Rap” speech/paper/presentation hit the web today. You can get it on Rapbassador.com. Be sure to post in the comments section with suggestions so that all the teachers that read that page can hear your examples too.

Also, The HT is in the midst of the mastering process for the “Particle Business”. YES THE HT FROM EMPULSE RECORDS STUDIO 6 THE HT. For posterity’s sake, the credit will look like this:

“Mixed and Mastered by The HT @ Studio 6, Port Orange, FL”
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Science Outreach via Rap Presentation

August 14th, 2009 | By 49

Last Tuesday I gave a presentation in the Wilson Hall at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. It was about Science Outreach via Rap. If you don’t mind RealPlayer, please give it a watch. You can also read the speech at my Rapbassador.com website [speech]

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Fermilab Tuesday

August 11th, 2009 | By 49

TODAY ROCKED! First, check out what’s on a bulletin board at the Wilson Hall


I guess mainly because this day was going to stress me out the most. Giving a speech to a room full of scientists when the most education I have is a simple Bachelors degree?

Today couldn’t have started off any worse. That Taco Bell Volcano Nachos I had last night? Bad idea. I was getting torn up from the inside. Breakfast was some yogurt and a few grapes and a vitamin (which made my stomach even more upset!)

I shaved with store brand disposable razor blades. Let’s call them Mach Faux’s because they kinda suck. Drove out to Fermilab bumpin Kanye. It’s a good liiiiiiife I told myself. I started to believe. Took this great shot of the Wilson Hall (errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr HIGHRISE) and sent a tweet bout it. I hung out in the room the presentation was going to be in and talked with the AV guys, Al and Jim a bit. They were cool. I wanted to spend as much time as possible in the room to get used to it. Around 10:30 I met up with Aria and she took me on a tour of cool stuff… like where the anti-matter is stored! First was the Cockcroft-Walton where things start with a simple bottle of hydrogen (H) and they hit it with an extra electron so its H-. From there we saw a bit of the Linac which starts to accelerate the H- in a pulse.

funky49 with Cockcroft-Walton generator

Did I mention I saw where anti-matter gets stored? We had to walk down there with a real Geiger counter!


Aww! But I wanna see the Linac! (not that bad tho)

Panning shot of the main control room of the Tevatron

Chillin with Aria in the Master Control Room

After the awesome tour with Aria, I got to have lunch with her and her boyfriend Aaron. Aaron plays bass for the Drug Sniffing Dog and Aria will sing with them. Aaron works at Fermilab too. He is in the communications center between CERN & Fermilab, the Remote Operations Center. They went back to work (ha! ha!) and I did mic checks with the Al and Jim the AV guys. I also spoke with Rachel from Fermilab communications and tried to chill out. I was getting more nervous by the minute. I went outside to go over my notecards again and thought the wind almost took them from my hands! The person who chilled me out the most was Kevin the security guy. We spoke about Chicago and the Cubs and Wrigley field. Thanks Kevin! He directed someone with a mad grip of cameras on the neck to the room I was speaking in! WOW! The press is gonna be here! Ben didn’t tell me about this until today! Even tho Kevin chilled me out I was still very nervous. Ben introduced me to the audience and I could feel my lower legs tremble.

BUT when I got into the speech and was getting such a positive reaction from people I relaxed a LOT! I started to speak quicker but slowed myself down. We did a Q&A immediately afterward and there were some good questions asked. Thankfully Ben helped answer them! After the presentation I changed from my button down shirt and put on my grey funky #49 jersey complete with ‘geek bling’ that mCRT & his fiancee Katcha gave me at Nerdapalooza. (Weirded me out having the press’ cameras still flashing while I’m taking off my shirt…) Thus equipped, I did a performance of the Fermilab Rap “Particle Business” and afterward went over my lyrics. To close, I played some science-rap videos and had some more one-on-one time with people. I left a bunch of funky49 Starblazer CDs on the table and they were all taken. Some people also had me sign them! A few members of the press chatted with me little bit afterwards. I hope they spoke with Ben and other Fermilab people too.

Afterward Ben told me I did a good job and we went out for beer. Mmm beer!

With Ben just after the “Science Outreach via Rap” presentation

Hanging with 3.5 Atom Smashers
 (Ben Kilminster, John Conroy, Robin Erbacher and Ian)
from the PBS documentary, The Atom Smashers

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