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Tim Griffin IF
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Tim Griffin has been filking for fun and money for about 30 years now. He loves writing and sharing new music with kids and seeing how they not only get excited about the STEM and other subjects his songs teach, but actually perform better on standards-based assessments of their knowledge and vocabulary after working with his music. Tim has performed to great hilarity and edification for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Science Teachers’ Association, the California Science Teachers’ Association, Mensa, dozens of science fiction & filk conventions, plus a few hundred schools, libraries, museums, and other places of learning. In 2014, Tim won the Pegasus Award for best songwriter/composer. |
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Representative Work for the 2019 Pegasus Awards A long, long time ago I went to UC Berkeley intending to major in astrophysics. Four and a half years later, I graduated with a major in rhetoric and a minor in ethnomusicology. Long story. Anyway, my wife pointed out recently that I'd never written a song using anything from my college major. So here it is: everything I can remember from four and a half years in one song. -Tim Griffin 44 Philosophers (mp3) Copyright © 2011 by Tim Griffin- All rights Reserved Diogenes the cynic held a lamp to find an honest man Heidegger questioned common sense and wondered what it means to be Augustine imported ancient Greece to Christianity Hobbes agreed the sovereign should have absolute authority Hume declared that humans run not on reason but desire Thales chose geometry instead of pure mythology Epicurus argued it was atoms made the human soul |