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Rob and Jess are talking tech! In this episode, they explore the linguistic origins of terms from technology, Sci-fi and the internet.
🧌 Who was the first internet troll?
🤖 What does ‘robot’ literally mean?
🔫 Does Jedi actually mean something?
⌨️ Are we pronouncing ‘meme’ correctly?
These questions answered, and a whole lot more, in an extra nerdy episode of Words Unravelled.
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It’s January and it’s cold. So I’m sat at sat indoors, at my desk, showing you my favourite Google Streetview before-and-after sequences from across the UK’s biggest cities outside London: Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Sheffield, Bradford and Leeds.
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Chapters
00:16 – Birmingham
02:56 – Liverpool
04:37 – Manchester
06:37 – Sheffield
07:20 – Bristol
08:56 – Leeds
11:10 – Bradford
12:45 – Edinburgh
14:20 – Glasgow
More information on Sheffield’s fantastic Grey to Green scheme: https://www.greytogreen.org.uk/
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For over 20 years, Professor Toshitaka Suzuki dedicated his life to show that birds don’t just make noise, but rather, combine sounds in structured ways that resemble complex language. Through years of careful observation and creative experiments, he discovered something incredible: these birds have specific words for objects much like we do and can combine these words to form sentences.
We explore this in detail in Part 1: • After 20 Years, This Scientist Proved Bird…
Where we look at how he proves that birds can in fact talk and use grammar in detail.
In this video, we go beyond grammar and into communication itself. Looking at how early birds seem to learn language in their life, whether different species can understand one another, and even whether birds can lie.
Together, these findings challenge the idea that language is uniquely human and suggest that communication, meaning and understanding may have evolved far earlier than we once believed.
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After hours of discussing nuclear weapons, economic security, and rare minerals, the leaders of Japan and South Korea decided to let loose. In an impromptu act of harmony, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea hit the drums, belting out K-pop hits, including BTS’ Dynamite and Kpop Demon Hunters’ Golden.
The jam session followed a recent summit held in Takaichi’s hometown of Nara, an ancient capital in southeastern Japan. For the performance, both leaders sat side by side and donned personalized track jackets emblazoned with their names written in cursive. The Japanese prime minister had hatched the idea herself, as a nod to her love of heavy metal and her past as an amateur drummer throughout her college days. But, beyond that, she also knew that playing the drums was a longtime dream of Lee’s.
The jam session followed a recent summit held in Takaichi’s hometown of Nara, an ancient capital in southeastern Japan. For the performance, both leaders sat side by side and donned personalized track jackets emblazoned with their names written in cursive. The Japanese prime minister had hatched the idea herself, as a nod to her love of heavy metal and her past as an amateur drummer throughout her college days. But, beyond that, she also knew that playing the drums was a longtime dream of Lee’s.
“When we met at APEC last year, [Lee] said it was his dream to play the drums, so we prepared a surprise,” Takaichi wrote in a social media post. The concert, which lasted about 20 minutes, culminated in the leaders exchanging signed drumsticks, and Lee receiving one of the drum kits as a gift from Takaichi. […]
More:Â https://mymodernmet.com/sanae-takaichi-lee-jae-myung-drum-duet/
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