YouTube description: It varies from town to town, or even within families. Part of the problem with the word pecan has to do with the way it came into the English language. Produced for Mental Floss,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 7 months 1 week ago • 656 views • 3:17

Made from choux pastry, profiteroles are a classic dessert from the 80's. Gordon's take are filled with chantilly cream and topped with chocolate sauce. Beautiful. From Gordon Ramsay's The F Word

posted by Gratefulmom 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 625 views • 2:27

YouTube description: Machine translation's a useful tool, don't get me wrong. But if you actually try to use it for regular conversation, it'll fall down really quickly. Why? What makes it so difficult? ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 559 views • 5:05

The Game Of Life. It's a family game night staple. But what you may not know is that this classic board game would not exist if it weren't for the follicular furnishings of Abraham Lincoln. In other words,... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 8 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 66 views • 1:55

YouTube description: Welcome to the world of contronyms, where words mean something--as well as its opposite. Produced for Mental Floss. (via digg)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 728 views • 3:10

YouTube description: Why does English have so many words that have twins? Here's how we got to have two vocabularies, one based in Germanic roots, and one based in Latin. Produced for Mental Floss. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 622 views • 2:20

Who else misread the title? [missed the word IN!] YouTube: In this week's SciShow News, we discuss two new types of sensors being developed. One tracks the content of certain molecules in your sweat... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 181 views • 5:06

Nerdwriter broke down the words Donald Trump uses when he answers questions.

posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 8 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 794 views • 6:54

YouTube: Take a trip through our star area, using only the ten hundred most used words, inspired by Randall Munroe of XKCD.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years ago • 80 views • 3:52

YouTube: We’ve already discussed drug names, generic and “brand” ones. But are there differences beyond the words? That’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 weeks ago • 293 views • 9:17

From YouTube: Do you want to go to space? Do you want to learn about bending computers and boxes that make clothes smell better and sky boats with turning wings? Then point your pointer here and press down.

posted by Zifnab 9 years 2 weeks ago • 1,892 views • 2:58

Amazing? ... not the first word that comes to mind [for me anyway].

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 weeks ago • 66 views • 3:09

YouTube: You know that feeling, when you know a word but it’s just out of reach, stuck on the tip of your tongue? Well, why does it happen? And what can you do about it?

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 weeks ago • 137 views • 4:05

From http://boingboing.net/2015/06/16/the-evolution-of-the-word-du.html ...

posted by ant 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 898 views • 2:25

Some languages have longer words than others -- but that's not just a simple choice. There's a lot of different ways to mix up morphemes, even if they all mean the same thing in the end.

posted by blacklotus90 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 599 views • 4:37

"For SIGBOVIK 2015 I did this little hack to produce a portmanteau (that's a jammin' together of two words, like caviar + armpit = caviarmpit) of all 100,000+ words in English. This video is a little illustrated... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 9 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 141 views • 8:56

Prepare to be as amazed and stupefied as I! YouTube: Byron Ferguson travels the world doing live exhibition. I should note, that Byron doesn't call himself the "Best" archer, or the "Most Amazing" archer... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 703 views • 6:44

The word for 'yes' in most of Sweden is 'ja', but in the north of the country a unique sound is used instead, as The Local's Oliver Gee discovered in the city of Umeå.

posted by rasch187 9 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,152 views • 1:53

Youtube description: Peter Lee, Microsoft Research corporate vice president, shares insights and a sneak peek into the Skype Translator, derived from decades of research in speech-recognition, automatic-translation,... continue reading

"James Bond needs a doctor, and not just any doctor: a specialist. He can't read the word on the inside of his jacket and even though he looks so cool with his dark glasses on, its pretty embarassing for... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 9 months ago • 173 views • 3:29