I love nerds! Meet the Genomic Dub Collective and blending of reggae and science.
Objectives:
To give birth to a new musical genre, Genomic Dub, that:
- engages the interest, quickens the pulse and hi-jacks the brain of the listener.
- encodes biological sequence data into dub music.
- celebrates the achievements of science, particularly in the field of genomics.
- celebrates the lives and works of scientists engaged in biomedical science.
- highlights the common threads that link current scientific and social issues with the past, with a particular emphasis on the lives and works of Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari) and their contemporaries.
- explores the interface between science and society.
- brings an appreciation of science to a wider public.
- brings an appreciation of reggae and of Jamaican history and culture to a scientific audience.
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