The Grimm Sisters: The Forgotten Women Behind Fairy Tales

Posted on July 17, 2025 by agogo22

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Fairytales didn’t begin with the Brothers Grimm. Long before Jacob and Wilhelm published their famous stories, women were the ones collecting, telling, and preserving these dark, magical tales. In this video, I discuss the forgotten female storytellers behind the Grimms’ success — the young women, spinners, and wise women whose voices were written out of history.

🔗 Sources and references below. (affiliate links included)
The Fairy Tellers, Jubber, 2022: https://amzn.to/3TIDPzu
From Beast to the Blonde, Marina Warner, 1994: https://amzn.to/3ZKoXnQ
Clever Minds, The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales. Valerie Paradiž: https://amzn.to/4ljzVZN
One Fairytale too Many, 1985. John Ellis: https://amzn.to/4k7kjHM

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EarthScope Consortium | Watch the seismic waves from today’s magnitude 7.3 Alaska earthquake ripple across seismic stations in North America

Posted on July 17, 2025 by agogo22

Watch the seismic waves from today's magnitude 7.3 Alaska earthquake ripple across seismic stations in North America.More ➡️ loom.ly/kaJp5I0

— EarthScope Consortium (@earthscope.org) 2025-07-17T03:26:37.721Z

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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… 💕

Posted on July 17, 2025 by agogo22

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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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