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This riddle posed by Richard Feynman sounds silly, but the answer contains one of the most important discoveries in physics.
Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen (she/her)
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October 23, 2025
Nature
Photography
Grace Ebert
Qingrong Yang, “Synchronised Fishing.” All images © the photographers, courtesy of the National History Museum
From a record-breaking 60,636 submissions, the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition (previously) has selected 100 images that capture the breadth of life on Earth. The 61st annual contest, helmed by Natural History Museum, London, features a diverse array of habitats, from a brown hyena skulking through an abandoned Namibian diamond mine to an orb weaver spider illuminated by the kaleidoscopic glow of headlights. Together, the photos present a timely consideration of our impact on the environment, along with an astounding glimpse at the planet’s many gems. […]
Simone Baumeister, “Caught in the Headlights”
Quentin Martinez, “Frolicking Frogs”
Luca Lorenz, “Dawn Watch”
More: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/2025-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year/
The creative fields allowed us to put out our ideas into the world in the pursuit of self expression, storytelling, or even just for the fun of it. No matter what medium you pursue, whether it be art, literature, music, or anything else, everyone has their own motivations for doing what they do. As long as you understand what drives you to create, then there isn’t a wrong path to go down, whether you want success, or self-improvement.
I made my first anime commentary video one year ago in October, and what better way to celebrate than to look back at this series! I originally had different video planned for October, but I couldn’t end up writing that one to my liking. This video was a little troubling too, the more I heard myself while editing the audio, the more I just wanted to scrap it all, but I figured that I was already so far with it that I might as well finish it. I don’t think it’s as bad as I thought it was on retrospect though.
Music used in the video:
Natsu no Daisankaku – SubaHibi
夢の歩みを見上げて – Sakura no Uta
月の眼球譚 – Sakura no Uta
Holiday – Kara no Shoujo
Omoide no Kakera wo Sukuu You ni – HimaNatsu
yakusoku – Minecraft
A Familiar Room – Minecraft
Anime used in the video:
Look Back (movie)
Official Translation of Look Back Manga used in video by: VIZ Media
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University of Cambridge Research Fellow Dr. Stephen Turton joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the logic (and many quirks) of the English language. Why are so many English words not pronounced the way they’re spelled? Why is the plural of ‘child’ not ‘childs’ but ‘children?’ ‘Foot’ becomes ‘feet’ but ‘boot’ does’t pluralize to ‘beet?’ How do we know what Old English sounded like? Why is the letter R pronounced so different across languages? What does a pineapple have to do with either pines OR apples? Answers to these questions and many more await on Etymology Support.
0:00 English Etymology Support
0:14 Foot Feet but not Boot Beet? Why?
1:17 Whoops
1:52 Get a clue
2:18 Why Ghoti = Fish
3:48 Who What Where When Why
4:49 Salary
5:11 What’s going on with the word “child?”
5:45 Deadline
6:11 Why are there multiple words that mean the same thing?
7:07 TUVWX…but Y?
7:58 Formal You
8:59 It’s Raining Cats and Dogs
9:34 Does language alter thinking?
11:40 Break a leg!
11:55 How do we know what old English sounds like?
13:01 Dictionary approved new words
13:45 Bring back sardine’s whiskers I say
14:16 Pineapples, man
14:49 Thou and hath
15:46 Funny collective nouns
16:20 Ok
16:53 “But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?”
17:36 Quarantine
17:57 How meanings change
19:08 Meet your meat words
19:58 English pronunciation
21:21 Common sayings between languages
22:00 💪
22:57 Homonyms
23:29 How etymologists do what they do
24:21 “Did youreet?”
25:00 Why is the letter R pronounced so differently in each language?
Director: Lauren Zeitoun
Director of Photography: Davide Bianco
Editor: Alex Mechanik
Expert: Stephen Turton
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Supervising Casting Producer: Thomas Giglio
Camera Operator: Ashley Raim
Gaffer: Jake Newell
Sound Mixer: Mark Hennessey
Production Assistant: Grace OConnor
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Additional Editor: Sam DiVito
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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From mountain high to valley low, Rob Watts and Jess Zafarris are exploring the origins of geography words.
🐻❄️ Why are the poles called ‘poles’?
🗻 What is the difference between a hill and a mountain?
🧭 What do the points of the compass literally mean?
These questions answered – and many more – in another worldly, wordy and nerdy episode of Words Unravelled.
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