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Dutch Language | Can English speakers understand it? | #1
Can English speakers understand the Dutch language? 🤓 Watch the video and play along to find out! 😁 LINKS: 🙏 Volunteer your language skills for the future videos → https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA… 🤓 Join the Ecolinguist DISCORD Server → https://discord.gg/xKBQCc3V57 🏋️♀️ Support … Continue reading
Jamaican Patois (NOT English!)
This video is all about Jamaican Patois, aka Jamaican Creole, the English-based creole language of Jamaica.[…]
Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky – Moscow Nights (Подмосковные вечера) (2013)
“Moscow Nights” (Russian: Подмосковные вечера, tr. Podmoskovnie vechera) is a Russian song, one of those best known outside its homeland. The song was originally created as “Leningradskie Vechera” (“Leningrad Nights”) by composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Matusovsky in 1955 … Continue reading
Sand and Currency from Dozens of Countries Converge in an Endless Interchange of Culture and Economics | Colossal
Corrie Francis Parks’s absorbing stop-motion short “Foreign Exchange” is all about perspective. Through a continuously evolving landscape of minuscule stones and banknotes, mini-universes emerge that meld the two materials into culturally significant tableaus. “Between the dazzling layers of currency and sand … Continue reading
Scientists Reawaken 24,000-Year-Old Microorganism in Siberian Permafrost
By Madeleine Muzdakis on June 9, 2021 This microorganism was frozen in Siberian permafrost for 24,000 years, but scientists were able to bring it back to life! What does this mean for the rest of us? From Han Solo in … Continue reading
The Circles of Friendship | Kottke
This chart caught my eye yesterday: It’s from Robin Dunbar’s recent book, Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships. You might recall the author’s name from his concept of Dunbar’s number:that on average people can maintain about 150 … Continue reading
The Popol Vuh: The Maya Story of Creation
Explore the Maya story of creation as recorded by the K’iche Maya and see how the Maya saw the world around them. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ancientamericas Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AncientAmericas Sources and Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x…
How radical gardeners took back New York City
Seed bombs, the “tree lady of Brooklyn,” and the roots of urban gardening. Subscribe and turn on notifications (🔔 ) so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO New York City looked a lot different in the 1960s and 1970s. A … Continue reading
Chuj Boys of Summer
Speaking only his native language a Guatemalan teenager begins his new life in rural Colorado. A true story starring those who live it. Winner: SXSW Special Jury Award Winner: National Board of Review Student Award Winner: NYU Graduate Film Wasserman/King … Continue reading
Indian Classical Dance | Edge of Humanity Magazine
Photographer Raj Laxmi Singh is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘Capture the Beautiful Movement of Dancers ’. Dance is the form of vibration of our body and mind. It is a form … Continue reading
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