🤔 Where do our emotions come from? In this episode of Words Unravelled, Rob and Jess dive deep into the fascinating origins of the words we use to express how we feel! From the familiar words like “sad,” “mad,” and “glad,” to the more complex emotions of feeling “mortified” or “envious,” we explore the linguistic history that shaped these terms and how their meanings evolved over time.
Join us as we uncover the surprising roots and cultural influences that color our emotional vocabulary. Whether you’re a language lover, a curious mind, or just along for the linguistic ride, you’re in for an engaging journey through the language of emotion.
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Get ready to embark on a side-splitting adventure as we take an American’s first look at the incomparable comedic genius of Philomena Cunk! If you’re not familiar with Philomena Cunk, she’s the fictional, brilliantly dim-witted TV presenter portrayed by the talented Diane Morgan. Known for her unique take on historical and current events, Philomena offers a perspective that’s both astoundingly misguided and endlessly hilarious.
Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more reactions to British comedy gems!
Original Videos: • Cunk asking about Soviet Onion #bbc …
• Philomena Cunk on America Part 2
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October 30, 2012
Design
Christopher Jobson
So what do you get when you cross one of the world’s most popular video games of all time and a giant orange squash? Pumpktris. The days of goblins, witches, and slack-jawed faces carved into pumpkins are officially over, and forget hyper realistic zombie hoards. Nathan over at the DIY website HahaBird upgraded his pumpkin this year using 125 embedded LEDs and other hardware that makes use of the pumpkin’s stem as a joystick resulting in a playable game of Tetris that can even keep score. […]
More: Pumpktris: A Fully Playable Version of Tetris Inside a Carved Pumpkin
29 Oct 2024 LANCASTER
“There is a brief and rapidly closing window…to prevent civilisational collapse” – Rupert Read. A vote was taken after I spoke, a straw poll: incredibly, the clear majority agreed with my assessment, a few thought I hadn’t gone far enough, and not one person thought that I had overegged the pudding.
Across the UK in communities, workplaces and wherever they have power, people from all walks of life are organising the kinds of serious climate action that will make governments take notice. The Climate Majority Project is a rallying place for citizen climate action. We help projects to grow, get funding, and connect with as many willing hands as possible. https://ClimateMajorityProject.com
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20 Oct 2023 #flooding #urbanplanning #planeta
After a flash flood that sent dead rats floating through the streets of Copenhagen, the city began reimagining itself. Away from concrete and asphalt and towards softer, “spongier” settlements that work with the natural flow of the water cycle. With cloudbursts increasing in intensity because of climate change, many cities from Beijing to Chennai are trying this too – and Copenhagen offers some good lessons.
#planeta #flooding #urbanplanning
Credits:
Reporter: Aditi Rajagopal
Camera: Omkar Phatak
Video Editor: Aditi Rajagopal
Animation: William Bryan
Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge
Factcheck: Kirsten Funk
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Interviewees:
Jan Rasmussen, director, Cloudburst Management Plan
Jes Clouson-Kaas, project manager, HOFOR
Read More
All about the cloudburst management plan: https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/e…
Lessons from Copenhagen: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10….
Chapters:
00:01 Intro
00:52 Hidden in plain sight
03:01 The heart of future Copenhagen
05:37 Machine cities to sponge cities
07:24 Flooding children’s parks
08:49 The numbers
09:40 Mitigation before adaptation
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This new formula is something else 😳
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Ramanujan video: • Solving Mathematics in ‘The Man Who K…
Note, at 9:27, the n values should be minus 1 and the expression on the righthandside should be multiplied by 4. What I meant to write was:
n = 1: 4(1 – 1/3) ~= 2.66
n = 2: 4(1 – 1/3 + 1/5) ~= 3.42
n = 3: 4(1 – 1/3 + 1/5 – 1/7) ~= 2.89
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29 Oct 2024
The single principle that underpins all of physics. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial and get 20% off an annual premium subscription.
A massive thank you to Prof. Steven Strogatz for his expertise and enthusiasm.
A huge thank you to Prof. Haithem Taha, Prof. Anthony Bloch, Dr. Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda, Dr. Sarah Millholland, and Dr. Andrew Mitchell for all their help with finding the story and getting it right.
A special thanks to Dr. Aurèle Adam, Ron Haaksman, Marc Serra Peralta, and everyone at the Delft Makerspace for their help with preparing and performing experiments.
00:00 One rule that replaces all of physics
00:51 The problem of fastest descent
05:09 Fermat’s principle
07:17 Bernoulli’s solution
10:38 Maupertuis’ principle
12:28 Maupertuis attacked and ridiculed
14:01 Euler & Lagrange to the rescue
17:22 The general approach to solving these problems
19:32 Writing the principle into its modern form
23:17 Why the principle works
27:08 Another way to do mechanics
30:19 A “spooky” breakthrough
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