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April 16, 2009
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A human biology rap — for real

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Jay Z’s “Money Ain’t a Thang” has gone scientific. Biology instructor, Tom McFadden is 22 and graduated from Stanford University in 2008. He now teaches human biology to sophomores at the university.  

Using Jay Z’s hip-hop “Money Ain’t the Thang,” Tim rewrote the lyrics to explain to his students complicated biology terms and concepts.

For example, in “Regulatin’ Genes” Tim raps “How you tell a cell it should be in the spleen? Or your lung? Or your tongue? Yo, you regulate its genes.”  See the video of “Regulatin’ Genes”on YouTube.

Other raps include Timbaland’s “It’s Too Late to Apologize” renamed “It’s Too Late to Apoptize,” and the Notorious B.I.G. hit “Going Back to Cali” parodied as “I’m Going Back to Plasma Membrane.”

Regarding his unique teaching methods, Tim commented “Ultimately, the videos were just to get the kids excited about the materials and make a really fun experience for them.”

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Judge Tom is the founder and moderator of AsktheJudge.info. He is a retired juvenile judge and spent 23 years on the bench. He has written several books for lawyers and judges as well as teens and parents including 'Teen Cyberbullying Investigated' (Free Spirit Publishing) and 'Every Vote Matters: the Power of Your Voice, from Student Elections to the Supreme Court' (Free Spirit Publishing). In 2020, the American Bar Association published "Cyberbullying Law," the nation's first case-law book written for lawyers, judges and law students. When he's not answering teens' questions, Judge Tom volunteers with the American Red Cross and can be found hiking, traveling and reading.

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