Tag Archives: Technology

The Canterbury Tales, or, How Technology Changes The Way We Speak: The London History Show

[…] Sources and further reading: British Library accents and dialects archive: https://tinyurl.com/3zz66jam McGillivray, M. 2013. Canterbury Tales 1 – 541 read aloud: https://vimeo.com/56602418 Robson, D. 2016. Has The Queen Become Frightfully Common? https://tinyurl.com/2p8usbah Strycharczuk, P. et al. 2020. General Northern … Continue reading →

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A school of fish showing affection to a friendly dog. ðŸ’•

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Amazing tornado captured by Amie Kuxhaus.

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The insane potential of Pumped Storage Hydropower.

Pumped Storage Hydro had, until recently, been all but written off as a fully exploited dead-end for energy storage expansion. According to new research though, it turns nothing could be further from the truth! It could literally be the lynch … Continue reading →

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Top Breeder, 2018 | @kensukekoike

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Overdue Library Book Is Finally Returned 119 Years Late | My Modern Met

By Regina Sienra on July 27, 2023 hoto: zatletic/Depositphotos Forgetting to return a library book is common. But 119 years late? Have you ever returned a library book late? Perhaps by a day or two or maybe even a week? … Continue reading →

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Master driver!

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Some driving skills.

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How an advanced civilisation vanished 2,500 years ago – BBC News

The Tartessos were an advanced Bronze Age society that flourished in the Iberian Peninsula in southern Spain around 3,000 years ago. But 500 years later, the civilisation vanished mysteriously. Now new research is investigating how and why the Tartessos disappeared. … Continue reading →

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Could an Orca Give a TED Talk? | Karen Bakker | TED

What if we could hear nature’s ultrasonic communication — and talk back? From a bat’s shrill speech to a peacock’s infrasound mating call, conservation technology researcher Karen Bakker takes us through a sound bath of animal noises that are far … Continue reading →

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Scientists Announce a Puzzling Discovery At The Large Hadron Collider

The Higgs boson is considered to be the cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics. Its discovery in 2012 created ripples in the scientific community as it was the last missing piece of the Standard Model. However, the model … Continue reading →

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Woman Rescues Kookaburra Bird with Head Stuck in Fence

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