September 18, 2004

The Sound of the Universe

Sounds remarkably like scratching. Almost 100 years ago, Dr. Ernest Everett Just was interested in cell division. Although contemporary wisdom posited a strict hierarchical process, Just believed something else was at work. Something akin to the individual improvisation he found in jazz. He used his knowledge of jazz to spark a hypothesis about biology that led to an intellectual revolution in the field.

What will hip-hop tell us?

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