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Linguist Answers Word Origin Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
22 Oct 2024 Linguist Gareth Roberts joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the etymologies of English words. How did the first languages first form? Was there once a single common language that all the others evolved from? … Continue reading
What’s the ‘were’ in werewolf? | SPOOKY ETYMOLOGY
23 Oct 2024 #etymology #ghoststories #halloween In this episode of Words Unravelled, Rob and Jess dig into the spooky origins of Halloween words. From ‘ghosts’ and ‘ghouls’ to ‘warlocks’ and ‘witches’, they uncover the hauntingly fascinating roots of supernatural lingo. … Continue reading
São Paulo Metro Project Welcomes First Woman in Latin America to Operate a ‘Worm’ – 21/10/2024 – São Paulo – Folha
Vitória Macedo SÃO PAULO In predominantly male fields like engineering, many women become pioneers. This is the case of Sherry Romanholi, 27, the first woman in Latin America responsible for operating a “worm”—the massive machine that creates space for the … Continue reading
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Scientists Discuss The Science of Perception & AI
Are we all living in a simulation inside our brains? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about the root of perception, if AI really is intelligent, and The Free Energy Principle with theoretical neuroscientist Karl … Continue reading
Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? | Aeon Essays
Death and the word; William conquers Harold and the English language. From Cotton Vitellius A XIII(1) f3v. Photo courtesy British Library No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other … Continue reading
We should steal these words from French
[…] English has already borrowed thousands of words from French. However, there are still many beautiful and useful French words for which English has no equivalent. In this video, I introduce you to 10 of them (and propose we … Continue reading
