Irish classical and folk violinist Aoife Ní Bhriain and keyboard player Rick Wakeman are Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe’s first guests as they begin a brand new series. Valentine’s Day vibes are in the air so expect a bit of love as we embark on a new playlist, taking us from a sweet disco classic to a precocious pop/country megastar via Thor and Mozart.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe
The five tracks in this week’s playlist:
[03’55] Love is in the Air by John Paul Young
[11’07] Love’s Dream by Rick Wakeman ft Roger Daltrey
[18’40] Thor: Ragnarok by Mark Mothersbaugh
[25’45] Allegro moderato from Violin Concerto No 1 in B-flat Major by Mozart
[33’40] The Outside by Taylor Swift
Other music in this episode:
Berghain by Rosalía ft Björk
Whip it by DEVO
Arena Fight by Mark Mothersbaugh
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A tribute to Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has marked the first day of the iconic carnival parades in Rio de Janeiro.
The samba school Acadêmicos de Niterói traced Lula’s life as a boy growing up in poverty in the Brazilian northeast, to a metalworker, union leader and then president, showcasing giant figures to honour the president.
The parade drawn criticism from the opposition because Brazil’s next general election, which will also elect the country’s president, will take place in October. Critics argue the tribute can be seen as early electioneering and a possible violation of campaign rules ahead of the election.
Rio’s carnival parades take place over three days, featuring four top samba schools each day.
Video edited by Marina Costa
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PsiQuantum are world leaders in the race to utility-scale quantum computing, but they have been shrouded in mystery for over a decade…until now.
Thanks to some good fortune and incredible generosity from the PsiQuantum team I was able to get behind the scenes and see what makes their ground-breaking quantum computer ‘click’.
You can see their public paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158…
0:00 Silicon Valley’s Most Secretive Quantum Computer
1:38 A Quantum Computer that runs on Light
6:03 How to Create a Single Photon
9:00 How to Build a Quantum Clock
10:48 Ad Read
11:54 Detecting Single Photons
15:00 Creating the Perfect Material
18:19 How to do math with light
21:45 How to Build a Scalable Quantum Computer
24:27 Converting Space to Time
27:25 The First Photonic Quantum Computer Demonstrator
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I asked my subscribers for their burning word origin questions. They provided me with a goldmine of curious queries. In this video, I answer a few of them.
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==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:09 The chicken or the egg?
1:19 Why passenger not passager?
3:30 Celtic words in English
6:40 Silent H in rhythm and where
12:59 Two meanings of “maroon”
14:48 English trends that came back
17:40 Why are donkey and monkey said differently?
19:00 Why are first and third germanic, but second isn’t?
22:25 William spelled Pilliam
27:37 Overhelmed, underwhelmed but not whelmed
29:34 English in 1000 years
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