“Here Comes Science” is a children’s album and animated DVD that teaches science to kids created by They Might Be Giants, and it comes out September 1st and is available for pre-order through Amazon.They Might Be Giants are also going on tour in September. I'm excited. I think they may just have made a huge fan out of one spacepunk. Said spacepunk for one will be belting out these tunes in my (I mean his or her) car and shower.
Music videos promoting science are made of win. We will have to combine this with some Kompressor for a Spacepunk kids' learning program to compliment The Polymath's Primer. This would also be a great way to combine learning music with learning science. Combine this with some guitar hero gameplay and real instrument Scool of Rock-style gameplay and you have win.
Also, if you buy the album through the link, we get a tiny associate reward to help fund spacepunk!
Trekenomics is an earthhacking social experiment of Spacepunk.org to explore ways in which humans can share resources like hackerspaces to liberate their time and energy towards empowering purposes.
Trekenomics Trekonomics's Star Trek inspiration is summed up in this scene from First Contact in which Picard explains that in the future, people work not for profit but to better themselves and serve humanity.
Trekonomic experiments can work with market economics and even promote entrepeneurial and career development. It's not like we're advocating space communism, it's like we've developed a massive scarcity deficiency.
The first public talk about spacepunk took place on an abandoned Titan missile base in the Eastern Washington desert. The talk was a 5 minute Ignite talk with 20 slides, 15 seconds each. Afterwards, interested spacepunks began a discussion and mailing list, and talks continued throughout Toorcamp.
Video of the talk was shot and is forthcoming just as soon as the videographers can be contacted. If you know how to contact those who shot the video at Toorcamp, please let us know.
