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Promo with Caitlin Nienaber on Breakfast, 2018-05-16: RTRFM promo for Pint of Science live show
Get ready, because our live show is coming! Daniel Midgley and Troy Reynolds talk to Caitlin Nienaber on Breakfast about what will be going down tonight.
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Promo with Rewi Lyall, 2018-05-22
Daniel and Rewi chat about the live show, and Daniel proposes a rather unusual game. Rewi raises a question about the alphabet: was A always the first letter?
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Show notes
Download the slides for this event
http://danielmidgley.com/files/tttpos2018.pdf
Google puts gun emoji back in holster with switch to water pistol
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/25/google-gun-emoji-switch-water-pistol-android-update-apple
Nigerian Sues Oxford University Over Wrong Dictionary Definition
https://theeagleonline.com.ng/nigerian-sues-oxford-university-over-wrong-dictionary-definition/
Apple washes Siri’s mouth out with soap over vulgar definition of ‘mother’
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article210097244.html
Hey Siri, define the word “mother”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R99yRpvJCJk
siri swearing in Australian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd8RPugW3MY
You’re never too old to become fluent in a foreign language
https://theconversation.com/youre-never-too-old-to-become-fluent-in-a-foreign-language-96293
A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027718300994
The Baby-Name Trend That Unites America
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/05/popular-baby-names-vowels/560207/
The Top Baby Names Of The Year From The Social Security Administration Are Here, & They Prove Classics Are Totally In Style
https://www.romper.com/p/the-top-baby-names-of-the-year-from-the-social-security-administration-are-here-they-prove-classics-are-totally-in-style-9063242
Help Us Solve This Debate About What “IMHO” Stands For
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/what-do-you-think-imho-means
There Is Only One Thing IMHO Can Mean
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/there-is-only-one-thing-imho-can-mean/559481/
The ‘H’ In IMHO Does Not Mean Humble or Honest
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/the-h-in-imho-does-not-mean-humble-or-honest/559514/
xkcd: IMHO
https://xkcd.com/1989/
A New Scientific Study Supports Putting Two Spaces After a Period … and a Punctuation War Ensues
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/a-new-scientific-study-supports-putting-two-spaces-after-a-period.html
What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel pic.twitter.com/jvHhCbMc8I
— Cloe Feldman (@CloeCouture) 15 May 2018
Laurel or Yanny? Listen to the New Viral Video Driving the Internet Crazy!
https://www.eonline.com/shows/peoples_choice_awards/news/935602/laurel-or-yanny-listen-to-the-new-viral-video-driving-the-internet-crazy
“Yanny” or “Laurel”: the audio clip that’s tearing the internet apart
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/15/17357684/yanny-or-laurel-audio
A Linguist Explains Why ‘Laurel’ Sounds Like ‘Yanny’
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/dont-rest-on-your-laurels/560483/
We Made a Tool So You Can Hear Both Yanny and Laurel
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html
MUST READ: Yanny vs. Laurel: an analysis by Benjamin Munson
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=38274
Gammon : the bottom piece of a side of bacon, including a hind leg.
Also (recently) slang : Middle aged red-faced white male, usually ranting about Brexit, immigrants and political correctness gone mad. (origin : 2017 BBC) pic.twitter.com/BNZ3Bro0NZ
— Tattooed Mummy (@tattooed_mummy) 14 May 2018
Why your social media is covered in gammon
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-44108080
Owen Jones: No, ‘gammon’ is not a racial slur. Now let’s change the conversation
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/14/gammon-not-racial-slur-change-conversation
I’ve written a poem about gammon pic.twitter.com/mTUc4urocP
— Oldfirmfacts (@Oldfirmfacts1) 14 May 2018
180 years ago, the 26 year old Charles Dickens used the word “gammon” to describe a large, self-satisfied, middle aged man who professes an extreme patriotism in large part to disguise his essential selfishness and corruption.
(Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 16) pic.twitter.com/gli8AiyxyE— Alan Ferrier (@alanferrier) 14 May 2018
Tom Wolfe: “I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was ‘jejune’ and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.”
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/tom_wolfe_653861
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