Exposing grammar myths and mistakes with Grammar Girl

Posted on July 17, 2025 by agogo22

Is it “on accident” or “by accident”? Should “red, white, and blue” have that second comma? Is “10 items or less” okay? Jess and Rob are joined by the internet’s Grammar Girl, Mignon Fogarty, to examine some common grammatical myths and mistakes.

🥳 Is it wrong to use “fun” as an adjective?
🏎️ Is “drive SLOW” bad grammar? (or just a flat adverb?)
🥃 Why does “tonic and gin” sound weird?

These questions answered, as well as many more, on Words Unravelled.

Mignon’s podcast: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/gra…

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Nahre Sol | Making friends with a piano… 💕

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The 8 Eye Colors and What Evolutionary Advantage They Hide

Posted on July 16, 2025 by agogo22

Do you know that the color of your eyes is not just an aesthetic issue?
In this video, we reveal the 8 most common eye colors in humanity, how they originated, and what evolutionary advantages they might hide.

🔍 From genetics and melanin content to environmental influence and climate adaptation: each iris color tells a story about the evolution of our species.
Do brown eyes have more sun resistance? Do light-colored eyes see better in low light? Here you will find the answers.

👁️ Discover what your eye color says about you, and why evolution may have favored certain tones in different regions of the world.

🎵 Music used:
Sleeper, Pt. 2 – Vindsvept (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license)
⇒ You can hear more of their music on their YouTube channel!

Tavern Loop One – Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
Thanks to Free Stock Music for allowing its free use.

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Nahre Sol | Practicing is 80%👂🏻🎶, 12% 🧠, 8% 👐🏻

Posted on July 16, 2025 by agogo22

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Inby | Subtle movement 🌊

Posted on July 16, 2025 by agogo22

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The price you pay for being smart.

Posted on July 16, 2025 by agogo22

 

Anti-intellectualism is on the rise. And by “anti-intellectualism” we mean the backlash to scholars in fields like the humanities.

According to two intellectuals, Dr. Ally Louks (https://x.com/drallylouks?lang=en) and Jason Stanley (https://campuspress.yale.edu/jasonsta…) , the humanities help us better connect to other humans. According to a lot of online haters, they’re worthless. In November 2024, Dr. Louks recently posted her Cambridge University dissertation online and was piled on by a loud group of right-wing anti-intellectuals.

Today, Brittany revisits her convo with Dr. Louks, and Jason Stanley, a professor of Philosophy at Yale University. They investigate the backlash to Dr. Louks, higher education at large, and why “anti-intellectualism” is prevalent in Republican politics. For more, read Jason Stanley’s book Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (#ErasingHistory: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future) .

This episode originally published January 27, 2025.

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Baboons crossing a busy road in Cape Town. They even have their own crossing guard.

Posted on July 16, 2025 by agogo22

Baboons crossing a busy road in Cape Town. They even have their own crossing guard.
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Why trams leaving MediaCityUK always stop twice

Posted on July 16, 2025 by agogo22

When you think a Metrolink tram is departing MediaCityUK, it always stops again before actually leaving. This movement is seen every single time, and here’s why it’s necessary to the operation of the MediaCity branch on the Eccles Line.

Manchester Metrolink map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi…

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Mou Waho, An island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island, New Zealand

Posted on July 16, 2025 by agogo22

Mou Waho, An island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island, New Zealand
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Ancient trick to calculate ANY square root

Posted on July 15, 2025 by agogo22

An ancient formula is astoundingly accurate. Why didn’t we learn this in school?

0:00 history
2:32 calculations
7:22 sqrt 2
10:19 intuition

Babylonian tablet YBC 7289
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YBC_7289
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
Babylonian numerals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
Josell7, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/… via Wikimedia Commons
Babylonian Method of Computing the Square Root, Olga Kosheleva
https://www.cs.utep.edu/vladik/2009/o…
A 3D-print of ancient history
https://ipch.yale.edu/news-events/3d-…
tecmath video square root
• Square root of ANY number instantly – shor…
Square Root Approximations in Old Babylonian Mathematics: YBC 7289 in Context, David Fowler, Eleanor Robson
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…
Math! Science! History! It Didn’t Belong to Pythagoras
• MATH! SCIENCE! HISTORY! It Didn’t Belong t…

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