The Talk the Talk team is taking their show to the Disrupted Festival, and they’re chatting with internet influencer Ketan Joshi about data privacy, science advocacy, and changing minds. Plus their usual antics, games, and the dreaded Words of the Week.

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Video episode 332: Social

Video: 332: Social (featuring Ketan Joshi, live at Disrupted 2018)

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Show notes

Culturally insensitive and sexist language turning Kiwis off
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12091053

Samoan Terms Of Abuse. — Upu Palauvale
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-TuvAcco-t1-body1-d27.html

Google Translate returns some very disturbing results when you type certain phrases
https://www.indy100.com/article/google-translate-phrases-results-reddit-doomsday-clock-8463591

Smoochy Woochy Poochy: The DEA’s 2018 Drug Slang Guide Is Next Level Wow
https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/smoochy-woochy-poochy-the-deas-2018-drug-slang-guide-is-next-level-wow

Here Are The DEA’s Newest Slang Terms for Marijuana: ‘Shoes,’ ‘My Brother’ And More
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/here-are-the-deas-newest-slang-terms-for-marijuana-shoes-my-brother-and-more/

Title of least popular emoji goes to a new loser
https://www.cnet.com/news/title-of-least-popular-emoji-goes-to-new-loser/

Least Used Emoji Bot
https://twitter.com/leastusedemoji?lang=en

Lying in a foreign language is easier
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180719142154.htm

Ketan Joshi: Energy, science and technology
https://ketanjoshi.co

Your Tweets Are Somehow Worthy Of Scientific Study
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/your-tweets-are-somehow-worthy-of-scientific-study/

Dictionary.com: pubes
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pubes

OK NEW THEORY

As a medical term for the pubic region/plural of “pubis”: two syllables. As slang for pubic hair: one syllable, but dictionaries haven’t noticed yet.

— Robin Marwick (@RobinMarwick) 12 July 2018

Strong Language: Pubic education
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/pubic-education/

Teens Are Debating the News on Instagram
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/the-instagram-forums-where-teens-go-to-debate-big-issues/566153/

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