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BBC Radio 4 – Word of Mouth, A Murmuration of Starlings
Most groups of wildlife can be described as a flock or a herd, a swarm or a shoal – but where is the fun in stopping there? From an army of ants to a dazzle of zebras, an exultation of … Continue reading
Did People Used To Look Older?
[…] Follow me: Tweets by tweetsauce https://www.instagram.com/electricpants Carl Sagan High School yearbook: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85590… 2001 Tiger Beat: https://allisontanenhaus.com/tiger-beat Slade on Fabulous: https://i.pinimg.com/474x/23/b3/49/23… Elizabeth Taylor at 17: https://www.vintag.es/2018/04/elizabe… 70s high school students: https://www.criticalpast.com/video/65… Brandon McCarthy tweet: https://twitter.com/bmccarthy32/statu… 80s footballers: https://twitter.com/80sAging 80s high … Continue reading
Could we ACTUALLY grow potatoes on Mars? | OVERTHINKING The Martian
[…] 00:00 – Introduction 01:07 – Is it possible to grow crops in Martian soil? 03:23 – Is human waste as a fertiliser a good idea? (NOPE) 07:16 – What about Mars’ different gravity? 11:30 – Outro 11:52 – Brilliant … Continue reading
What does it mean to be a ‘person’? Different cultures have different answers | Aeon
Robert Launay Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University A 4-month-old baby girl is tended by her grandmother inside a church in Duekoue, Ivory Coast, in 2011. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell The fundamental issue at stake in abortion debates is personhood, which is … Continue reading
Weird plurals in English: Men, geese, sheep, knives and many more
Everyone knows that you make plurals in English by an adding an S. So how come we have “men” instead of “mans” and “mice” instead of “mouses”? And why are “sheep” and “fish” the plural and the singular terms? In … Continue reading
The Maya myth of the morning star
Discover the Maya myth of Venus, the morning star plotting revenge on his brother, the sun, and his allies. — Chak Ek’, the morning star, rose from the underworld to the surface of the eastern sea and on into the … Continue reading
Traditional Cumbia tutorial by Jaime Rodriguez
Colombia has a lot of beautiful rhythms and Cumbia is one of them. The Cumbia in this lesson is the traditional way of playing. Jaime Rodriguez is a great percussion player from Colombia and more info about him and his … Continue reading
Colombia Traditional Drums & Dance
Colombians Showing their African Heritage
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