Donald is learning these new languages nobody speaks so he can communicate with immigrants.
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"Duolingo is an educational app that helps you to learn foreign languages. But what if it already existed in the 1980s? Well, here it is, Duolingo in 1980's style! ..."
posted by ant 1 year 3 weeks ago • 37 views • 4:41Sam Harris speaks with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan about the origins of the COVID pandemic. They discuss the evidence of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, media and academic censorship of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 year 2 months 4 weeks ago • 273 views • 58:27In this video, I help a Labrador mix, Jet. Jet has been having aggressive problems. It is important to pay attention to what the dog is telling you through its energy and body language. A dog... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 46 views • 4:55YouTube description: Check out Otherwords, a new show about language & linguistics! https://youtu.be/d2UccTPnl4w It might surprise you but cephalopods have a pretty good fossil record, with one major... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 384 views • 8:22Professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz along with a band of Dartmouth undergraduates invent the Basic computer language.
posted by bobknight33 3 years 2 months ago • 9 views • 38:13The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 15 views • 3:56From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 55 views • 26:02Dr. Robin DiAngelo speaks about her book, "White Fragility" and systemic racism, "bringing language to the emotional structures that make true discussions about racial attitudes difficult. With clarity... continue reading
posted by alcom 3 years 11 months ago • 11 views • 1:23:31For three centuries, farmers living in the remote mountains of northern Turkey have communicated great distances by whistling. It’s a language called kuş dili that is still used to this day, though... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 100 views • 2:41YouTube description: You are probably aware of the fact that elephants make trumpeting noises - but did you know that most of their communication is so low pitched that humans can’t even hear it? ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months ago • 489 views • 6:05YT: The International Phonetic Alphabet: one sound for each symbol, and one symbol for each sound. Except for the sounds we can't make. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
posted by Fantomas 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 883 views • 6:31Curiosity Show - We all wear denim jeans, but how did they get their name?
posted by pigeon 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 125 views • 1:44YouTube description: Danny Dimian, Visual Effects Supervisor, and Josh Beveridge, Head of Character Animation, for "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," share exclusive breakdowns and talk about their... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 425 views • 13:28YouTube description: Scientific language can be difficult to parse through for anyone not well-versed in the field. That’s where acclaimed actor Alan Alda comes in. Through the Alda Center for Communicating... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 498 views • 3:16YouTube description: Technical details about what we're doing: We're working on a time-series problem called a Sequence Classification. Recurrent Neural Networks called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months ago • 566 views • 10:41❤️❤️The kindergarten class in Tennessee learned "Happy Birthday" in sign language to celebrate the 60th birthday of their custodian. James Anthony, who is hard of hearing, has been working with... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 7 months ago • 421 views • 28 secs"... A Quiet Place star and deaf actress Millicent Simmonds teaches you how to sign iconic lines from horror movies in American Sign Language..."
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