It's been a long time since I did a linguistics video, but today Alex has stepped in and done a brilliant job. Song translations usually suck: and it's because you either have to lose the meaning or the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 328 views • 4:25Videos (197) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Tadashi Tokieda is back. This time talking about stability, instability and train wheels.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 200 views • 7:25YouTube description: Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes — from a childhood... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 155 views • 13:08Yttrium, terbium, erbium and ytterbium were all named after one small town on the Stockholm archipelago. But it could have been different, and there could have been many other names. From a snowy bit of... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 17 views • 2:16Inmates who realize they can't change the past try to change the future by reaching out to kids about gun violence before it's too late.
posted by Ashenkase 7 years 3 months ago • 236 views • 6:07Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink | TEDxUniversityofNevada From YouTube: War is hell, but war is also a brutal teacher. War teaches you about brotherhood, honor, humility, and leadership. In this riveting... continue reading
posted by chicchorea 7 years 3 months ago • 115 views • 13:50John talks about Trump's Executive Order on Immigration in detail, what it means short term for refugees and permanent residents, and what we are still unsure about.
posted by eric3579 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 565 views • 7:22YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,726 views • 3:13Place your bets! YouTube: Comedian Matt Kirshen tests Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye to see if they can decipher whether something is a real mechanical problem or science fiction.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,034 views • 2:39At Autodesk's Pier 9 workshop in San Francisco -- and no, this isn't an ad, pull down the description for more! -- there are giant robot arms using welders to 3D print with stainless steel. Which seemed... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months ago • 782 views • 4:51"That's Badass!" YouTube: Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how Albert Einstein correctly predicted the existence of gravitational waves.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 6 months ago • 489 views • 2:07For two years, I went to a British public boarding school, and recently, I attended a reunion. I talk about them.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months ago • 20 views • 8:24"I might casually say: 'you're crazy'." YouTube: Comedian Jim Gaffigan urges us not to be dismissive. Talk to people who are different from you. Widen your friendship circle, watch a wide range of news... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 940 views • 5:41Is what is said ... what is implied? YouTube: Last week we talked about language and meaning. Today, Hank explores some of the things that complicate meaning and how we get around that. We’ll explain... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 596 views • 9:11YouTube: Virtual particles are a way of talking about fields and their interactions as though particles are doing all the work. This is why there is some controversy around using the term 'virtual particles'.... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 26 views • 8:43It's not about how many times one does it. YouTube: I spend a fair amount of time talking about how social determinants of health come into play, with respect to health care outcomes. I also talk a... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 568 views • 3:35Are you? From YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqN_2jDVbOU "Geordie Rose, Founder of D-Wave (recent clients are Google and NASA) believes that the power of quantum computing is that we can... continue reading
posted by chicchorea 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 850 views • 19:38YouTube: Kids are weird. They eat mud, talk to bugs, and stick things up their noses... but the changes kids go through as they grown out of infancy and into childhood are even weirder!
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 25 views • 9:07YouTube: We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other!
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 126 views • 9:18YouTube description: In which John visits the Za'atari refugee camp in northern Jordan and talks with refugees there about their hopes, ambitions, fears, and complex lives. Thanks to everyone at UNHCR,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 144 views • 3:31