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What would an alien language look like?
Disappointed by the alien languages you see in movies? I have good news! There is a new branch of linguistics—Xenolinguistics—dedicated to imagining what an alien language might actually look like! In this video, I want to explore the weirdness of … Continue reading
Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426
Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Yahoo Finance: https://yahoofinance.com – Listening: https://listening.com/lex and use code LEX to get one month free – … Continue reading
Why is it a “murder” of crows?
From a ‘business (or ‘busyness’) of ferrets’ to a ‘drunkship of cobblers’: join Jess and Rob to collectively explore the weird world of collective nouns. Hear all about the bizarre book that coined scores of these terms, which are also … Continue reading
Are you getting these wrong too?
Join word nerds Jess Zafarris and Rob Watts (aka RobWords) as they discuss amusing mis-heard phrases and vocabulary snafus known as “eggcorns,” “malapropisms,” and “mondegreens.” 👂LISTEN: https://podfollow.com/words-unravelle… or search for “Words Unravelled” wherever you get your podcasts. […]
Fay Dowker: Wormholes, Quantum Gravity, and Causal Set Theory | Robinson’s Podcast #156
Fay Dowker is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, where she works broadly on quantum gravity, and more particularly on an approach called causal set theory that takes the most basic pieces of the universe to be atoms … Continue reading
International Mother Earth Day | United Nations
Picture taken by the Apollo 11 crew on their way home. PHOTO:NASA (image restored by Toby Ord) Mother Earth is clearly urging a call to action. Nature is suffering. Oceans filling with plastic and turning more acidic. Extreme heat, wildfires … Continue reading
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