What do you say to someone who leaves the door open after coming in?

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Kindness + politeness+wisdom

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I’m back in Brazil

A few weeks of my return to Brazil , one of my favourite places in the world
If you took the time to watch I hope you enjoy

love and light

Instagram & Tiktok : @soraelise

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Eye-mazing!! Painted by artist that goes by My Dog Sighs at The Cartford Inn in Lancashire,UK.

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The next 7 generations of this crow’s family will reward this woman

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Relics Of The Akan Empire – Ghana, West Africa…

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Ceiling of the Sagrada Família

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5 weird sounds native English speakers use

British (GB) English is often categorised as using 44 sounds. But native speakers use more – and in this video I explore 5 strange sounds that are actually everywhere:

00:00 INTRODUCTION
00:32 [ɱ] – Labiodental Nasal
01:38 [ɫ] – Dark /l/ (Velarised)
03:33 [ʔ] – Glottal Stop
04:38 /ə/ – Schwa
06:02 [ɦ] – Voiced Glottal Fricative
06:43 SUMMARY

Head to https://pronunciationstudio.com/nativ… for practice sentences and audio.

#phonetics #sounds #accents

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Some recent shots :)

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What Makes People ACTUALLY Change Their Minds About Housing (real experiment)

What actually changes people’s minds about housing?
Researchers at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Yale recently ran a randomized controlled trial to test exactly that. Different videos about cities were shown to participants to see which messages actually made people more supportive of housing and density.
Some focused on economics. Others highlighted how people move between cities and suburbs at different stages of life. Another tackled a common misconception: that cities are unhealthy places to live.
Some arguments that seem persuasive didn’t move opinions at all. Others worked surprisingly well. And certain topics — like homelessness and architecture — turned out to influence housing attitudes even more strongly than expected.
Watch the video to find out which message actually worked.

CHAPTERS
0:00 The context
2:57 The experiment
10:39 The results
13:24 What’s next?

MAIN SOURCES
Housing messaging experiment — David Broockman, Christopher S. Elmendorf, Joshua Kalla
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/kz4…
The Symbolic Politics of Housing — David Broockman, Christopher S. Elmendorf, Joshua Kalla
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/surv9_v2
Cruel Musical Chairs housing video — Sightline
https://www.sightline.org/2017/10/31/…
Journal of Economic Perspectives article on housing supply
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
Aesthetic City research on architecture preferences

Research

ABOUT JUSTINE
I’m a journalist with a background in economics and theater. I worked as a producer and on-air reporter at Yahoo Finance, and I later created a documentary series focused on science and tech at Real Vision. My focus now is on urban design, and I was recently elected to City Council in my hometown of Falls Church VA.

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