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Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents – (Part One) | WIRED
Dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik and a host of other linguists and language experts (Nicole Holliday, Megan Figueroa, Sunn m’Cheaux, and Kalina Newmark), take a look at some … Continue reading
COLOUR WORDS: The astounding origins of “blue”, “black”, “orange”, “red” & other colors
Prepare to be amazed by the surprising origins of the English words for colours (or colors for our American friends). I promise you’ll have at least one “wow” moment as I reveal: 🔵 Why the Ancient Greeks had no word … Continue reading
In Craig Walsh’s ‘Monuments,’ Enormous Projected Portraits Illuminate the Selective Histories of Public Art | Colossal
AUGUST 31, 2022. GRACE EBERT Charlotte’s Descendents (2022) for Charlotte SHOUT! All images © Craig Walsh In the mid-nineties, Australian artist Craig Walsh created his first projection at Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland. Made with photographic slides, the massive installation temporarily transformed … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – The Lost Sounds Orchestra
Sounds of the past to come to life through the technology of the present. For the vast majority of the 200,000 years humans have been on the earth, let alone its first 4.6 billion years of existence, the sonic story … Continue reading
Indigenous voices in water planning – ABC Radio National
Ocean waves from above. What does it take to survive on the driest inhabited continent on Earth? Indigenous people have tens of thousands of years of knowledge about this, but their place in the conversations about water planning and management … Continue reading
To Infinity And Beyond | A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail on Acast
In the final episode of this series, Steve gives faint stars the side-eye, Helen sings a relatively short song about relativity and Matt gives a standing ovation to the desktop calculator that rerouted a space probe. Up, up and away! … Continue reading
Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger?
[…] We’re often told just how productive a capitalist economy is. We produce far more than we need…so why are there still so many hungry and malnourished people? In this episode we’ll investigate the real cause of world hunger, and … Continue reading
Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
There is one – and only one – group of mammals that doesn’t have alpha-gal: the catarrhine primates, which are the monkeys of Africa and Asia, the apes, and us. […]
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