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高野八誠さんのツイート: “このコンビニひどいな。 https://t.co/60n71TkDiq”
EDUCATIONAL YOUTUBE CHANNEL MASTERPOST
Science
Vertasium
Vsauce
MinutePhysics
MinuteEarth
SmarterEveryDay
SciShow
Periodic Videos
Sixty Symbols (Physics and Astronomy)
ASAPScience
Khan Academy
Crash Course
Brit Lab
Math:
Numberphile
SingingBanana
Vi Hart
Khan Academy
History:
Crash Course
Khan Academy
Cannot Be Classified (But still hella interesting):
CGP Grey
TED
The Good Stuff
Feel free to add anything you think should be here! This is my first masterpost so if there’s any mistakes, be sure to let me know! Cred to my boyfriend for most of these. He spends a lot of time on YouTube and knew a lot of them because he watches them so much. Check them out!
What gesture can teach us about emoji
In the last year or so we’ve been thankfully having fewer conversations about emoji becoming a new language or emoji killing English. The novelty has worn off, and while emoji are being used in new ways, and things like the skin tone and gender modifiers are creating new flexibility in the little images, they’re becoming a normalised part of (some genres of) our written life.
I have never been concerned with the idea of emoji becoming a language. The reason for this is because gesture, and the way it works as part of communication, can teach us a lot about emoji and their relationship to written speech.
Iconicity only gets you so far
Gesture and emoji have iconicity in common. The word coffee doesn’t look anything like the beverage, but a coffee cup emoji ☕️ does, and making a drinking gesture or pointing at a coffee cup can also convey the meaning of coffee (in the right context). As you can see, they would need to add a lot more emoji, and then you would only be able to communicate about things in the physical world. Same for gestures.
Researchers have known for a long time that gesture doesn’t have many of the things that makes language. That’s a feature, not a bug. It means gestures can combine with spoken language to create a richer whole. Gestures can add an additional channel of meaning, particularly about things that speech isn’t inherently good at, like spatial relations or size of objects. Similarly, emoji are used as a way to add things that are missing to spoken language, like the tone of the message.
There are cultural differences
Emoji aren’t going to be any kind of Universal communication tool, because like every other feature of communication that humans have, there are cross-cultural differences in how they’re used and what meaning they have. Even people who speak the same language may have different emoji preferences or meanings, just like how you’re a palm rotation from the peace sign gesture to deeply offending a British person.
Stable meaning can emerge… in a context
Rachael Tatman ran a short experiment looking at how people represented events in photographs with emoji. Although there were no stable structures like you see with language, there are trends to represent events and their participants either in relation to their physical location in space, or their relation to each other in the sentence. This later strategy partly explains why emoji don’t point the ‘correct’ way for English speakers. Similarly research on gesture shows that in the absence of speech stable gestures meaning particular objects appear, and the order the gestures are performed in indicate things like who the actor (or subject) was in relation to a patient (or object).
If you spent enough time building the kind of compositional grammar into gesture that would allow you to use it as a language you’d have… a sign language. Similarly, if you did the same with Emoji you’d end up with a language, or using emoji as a writing system structure for an existing language.
These are just some of the ways emoji and gesture are similar. Both are iconic, both show cultural variation, even when two cultural groups speak the same language, and both can show the emergence of language-like features, but that means they’re becoming language, which is a different thing. What both of them excel at is working in combination with spoken or written language to give people richer multimodal communicative options.
Great further reading to A Linguist Explains Emoji and What Language Death Actually Looks Like.
Herd immunity is the idea that if enough people get immunized against a disease, they’ll create protection for even those who aren’t vaccinated. This is important to protect those who can’t get vaccinated, like immunocompromised children.
You can see in the image how low levels of vaccination lead to everyone getting infected. Medium levels slow down the progression of the illness, but they don’t offer robust protection to the unvaccinated. But once you read a high enough level of vaccination, the disease gets effectively road-blocked. It can’t spread fast enough because it encounters too many vaccinated individuals, and so the majority of the population (even the unvaccinated people) are protected.
Find out more here.
my mitochondria clearly aren’t working because this bitch has NO FUCKING ENERGY
Mitochondria machine broke
actually the funny thing is that this post is basically describing what researchers now think is the underlying cause in chronic fatigue syndrome (as in there is notable dysfunction in mitochondria that means less ATP is produced, especially under stresses)
THIS BITCH EMPTY
Y E E T
すずゆきさんのツイート: “やり逃げに失敗した人 https://t.co/efK39F3cEY”
Silbo Gomero also known as el silbo (‘the whistle’), is a whistled register of Spanish used by inhabitants of La Gomera in the Canary Islands to communicate across the deep ravines and narrow valleys that radiate through the island. It enables messages to be exchanged over a distance of up to 5 kilometres. Due to this loud nature, Silbo Gomero is generally used in circumstances of public communication. Messages conveyed could range from event invitations to public information advisories.
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How to Study Like a Harvard Student
Taken from Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, daughter of the Tiger Mother
Preliminary Steps 1. Choose classes that interest you. That way studying doesn’t feel like slave labor. If you don’t want to learn, then I can’t help you. 2. Make some friends. See steps 12, 13, 23, 24. General Principles 3. Study less, but study better. 4. Avoid Autopilot Brain at all costs. 5. Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time. 6. Write it down. 7. Suck it up, buckle down, get it done. Plan of Attack Phase I: Class 8. Show up. Everything will make a lot more sense that way, and you will save yourself a lot of time in the long run. 9. Take notes by hand. I don’t know the science behind it, but doing anything by hand is a way of carving it into your memory. Also, if you get bored you will doodle, which is still a thousand times better than ending up on stumbleupon or something. Phase II: Study Time 10. Get out of the library. The sheer fact of being in a library doesn’t fill you with knowledge. Eight hours of Facebooking in the library is still eight hours of Facebooking. Also, people who bring food and blankets to the library and just stay there during finals week start to smell weird. Go home and bathe. You can quiz yourself while you wash your hair. 11. Do a little every day, but don’t let it be your whole day. “This afternoon, I will read a chapter of something and do half a problem set. Then, I will watch an episode of South Park and go to the gym” ALWAYS BEATS “Starting right now, I am going to read as much as I possibly can…oh wow, now it’s midnight, I’m on page five, and my room reeks of ramen and dysfunction.” 12. Give yourself incentive. There’s nothing worse than a gaping abyss of study time. If you know you’re going out in six hours, you’re more likely to get something done. 13. Allow friends to confiscate your phone when they catch you playing Angry Birds. Oh and if you think you need a break, you probably don’t. Phase III: Assignments 14. Stop highlighting. Underlining is supposed to keep you focused, but it’s actually a one-way ticket to Autopilot Brain. You zone out, look down, and suddenly you have five pages of neon green that you don’t remember reading. Write notes in the margins instead. 15. Do all your own work. You get nothing out of copying a problem set. It’s also shady. 16. Read as much as you can. No way around it. Stop trying to cheat with Sparknotes. 17. Be a smart reader, not a robot. Ask yourself: What is the author trying to prove? What is the logical progression of the argument? You can usually answer these questions by reading the introduction and conclusion of every chapter. Then, pick any two examples/anecdotes and commit them to memory (write them down). They will help you reconstruct the author’s argument later on. 18. Don’t read everything, but understand everything that you read. Better to have a deep understanding of a limited amount of material, than to have a vague understanding of an entire course. Once again: Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time. 19. Bullet points. For essays, summarizing, everything. Phase IV: Reading Period (Review Week) 20. Once again: do not move into the library. Eat, sleep, and bathe. 21. If you don’t understand it, it will definitely be on the exam. Solution: textbooks; the internet. 22. Do all the practice problems. This one is totally tiger mom. 23. People are often contemptuous of rote learning. Newsflash: even at great intellectual bastions like Harvard, you will be required to memorize formulas, names and dates. To memorize effectively: stop reading your list over and over again. It doesn’t work. Say it out loud, write it down. Remember how you made friends? Have them quiz you, then return the favor. 24. Again with the friends: ask them to listen while you explain a difficult concept to them. This forces you to articulate your understanding. Remember, vague is bad. 25. Go for the big picture. Try to figure out where a specific concept fits into the course as a whole. This will help you tap into Big Themes – every class has Big Themes – which will streamline what you need to know. You can learn a million facts, but until you understand how they fit together, you’re missing the point. Phase V: Exam Day 26. Crush exam. Get A.
クエスくんさんはTwitterを使っています: “店員「いらっしゃいませ。お一人様ですか?」 俺「はい」 店員「運動神経はよろしい方ですか?」 俺「えっ?、あ、はい」 店員「ではこちらのお席をどうぞ」 って、この席おかしいだろ。流れてくる寿司が直前まで見えない。 https://t.co/FJXpIIM6BD”
なな:こ15b(ティア)さんのツイート: “雪の宿入れるやつ作った https://t.co/MUkiZi6fY2”
you can take a “what’s your vocabulary size?” quiz here. it has:
english, french, german, spanish, portuguese, italian, polish, russian, chinese, dutch, indonesian, japanese
i have the japanese of an 8-year-old, but i’m pretty sure it’s closer to 4-year-old and i just got some lucky random guesses.
I am screaming, I have the english vocabulary of an 8 year old. For german I at least got into the top 0.19%
i have the english vocab of a 10 year old……..
Top 7%, on par with a white collar worker, for english. Yay!
“ Your vocabulary size is like that of a 14-year-old teenager in the US! ”
ayy maol!
“Sanavarastosi koko on n.10-vuotiaan suomalaisen lapsen tasoa! “
……
How to use written accents in Spanish
People who are studying Spanish struggle a lot with written accents, and some even learn them by heart. But that’s not necessary if you know the rules, which are quite simple! Back when I was 8 and learnt them in school, I discovered that I could write anything without making spelling mistakes (then I forgot the rules and know I just know when to write an accent because I read a lot)
What are accents used for?
In Spanish, accents tell you when you should put more emphasis on a syllable. Also the absence of accents shows you which is the stressed syllable. This is super handy when reading a text with words you don’t know, because you’ll know how to pronounce them. When I had a quite basic English level, guessing how to pronounce something was a nightmare.
The syllable where you put more emphasis is called sílaba tónica, and I will be using that term from now on.
Based on the position of la sílaba tónica, Spanish words can be classified in 4 groups:
AGUDAS
LLANAS
ESDRÚJULAS
SOBREESDRÚJULAS (not that common)
AGUDAS
Agudas have the sílaba tónica AT THE END OF THE WORD (1st position). This word can have as many syllables as you want, but the stress must be on the last one. Always.
Example: CA-FÉ, CRIS-TAL*. – As you can see, the emphasis is on the last syllable of the word.
When do we write an accent on the AGUDAS?
The rules are quite simple. You’ll write an accent if:
- the word ends in a vowel: (ca-fé, a-llá, be-bé, en-con-tra-rá )
- the word ends in -n: (sar-tén, a-le-mán, a-cor-de-ón, co-a-li-ción)
-the word ends in -s: (bur-gués, ho-lan-dés, vi-vi-rás)
NOTE: the words that are agudas and end in consonant + S do not have an accent (ex: robots)
NOTE: The words that are agudas and end in “y” do not have an accent (virrey, convoy, and NOT virréy, convóy)
* CRIS-TAL does not have an accent because it ends with -l, so it is telling you that the emphasis is on the last syllable.
TIPS & TRICKS:
It’s cool knowing the rules, but sometimes is faster to know some tricks
Words that end in -ión have an accent (coalición, religión, contaminación, destrucción…)
A verb in the future simple will carry an accent in every version of the verb, except for the 1 person plural (compraré, comprarás, comprará, compraremos, compraréis, comprarán). As you can see, they all end in a vowel, in -n or -s, and “compraremos” doesn’t have an accent because la sílaba tónica is not the last one.
Words that are agudas and end in -ía always have an accent (geología, filosofía, biología, astronomía, gastronomía, tranvía)
The infinitives of the verbs are agudas and DO NOT have an accent because they end in -r (dormir, comprar, destrozar, aniquilar, cocer)
LLANAS
Llanas have the sílaba tónica on the penultimate (=next to the last) syllable (2nd position). This word can have as many syllables as you want, but the stress will be on the penultimate one. Always. So, when you pronounce it, you’ll make emphasis on the penultimate syllable.
Example: ÁR-BOL, IN-VE-RO-SÍ-MIL, CO-CHE. - As you can see, the emphasis is on the penultimate syllable of the word.
When do we write an accent on the LLANAS?
The rules are quite simple. You’ll write an accent if:
-llanas that end in ANY consonant, except for N OR S: (lá-piz, fá-cil, án-gel)
-when the llanas end in two consonants, even if it they are consonant+n // consonant+s (bí-ceps, fór-ceps)
-when the llanas end in -y, they have an accent (pó-ney)
ESDRÚJULAS AND SOBREESDRÚJULAS
ESDRÚJULAS
Esdrújulas have the sílaba tónica in the antepenultimate (=third to last) syllable (3th position).
Example: ES-DRÚ-JU-LA, Ó-PE-RA, CA-Ó-TI-CO.
When do we write an accent on the ESDRÚJULAS?
The rule is THE EASIEST. You’ll write an accent if:
ALWAYS. ALWAYS. ALWAYS.
SOBREESDRÚJULAS
Sobreesdrújulas are really weird, and they are normally verbs with pronouns added to them. Sobreesdrújulas have the sílaba tónica in the syllable before the antepenultimate syllable (4th position)
Example: Á-BRE-ME-LO, BÁ-JEN-SE-LA
When do we write an accent on the SOBREESDRÚJULAS?
The rule is THE EASIEST. You’ll write an accent if:
ALWAYS. ALWAYS. ALWAYS.
THIS SUMS UP EVERYTHING:
If you have any questions, let me know! I know this can be difficult to grasp at first, but once you master it it is a really simple system.
alright im putting this here because idk where else to:
i have to finish my ap japanese curriculum by april 7th, i have 7 chapters in the ap book and 3 left in the japanese 5 textbook
i want to learn all the vocab and have the grammar from these somewhat solidified by friday the 7th of april, thats about 13 weeks from now and thats about 800 vocab words in total so if we do the easy math i need to be learning about 60 words per week
thats reasonable i think
ひろばのさるのさんのツイート: “白シャツに白文字被せるとかいう無能広告マンの手腕で「医学部に行くな」にしか見えない。 https://t.co/3NVU2WzUyM”
Rewriting part of an article about diabetes from this magazine.
糖尿病 とうにょうびょう diabetes mellitus
重なり合う かさなりあう to lie on top of each other; to overlap; to pile up
ブドウ糖 ぶどうとう glucose
脂肪組織 しぼうそしき adipose tissue
すい臓 すいぞう pancreas
蓄える たくわえる to store; to lay in stock; to have a beard; to grow a beard
血糖 けっとう blood sugar
血糖値 けっとうち blood sugar level
medical subfields 6
関連分野 かんれんぶんや related fields
歯学 しがく dentistry
薬学 やくがく pharmacy
看護学 かんごがく nursing science
心理学 しんりがく psychology
健康心理学 けんこうしんりがく health psychology
臨床心理学 りんしょうしんりがく clinical psychology
作業療法学 さぎょうりょうほう occupational therapy
理学療法学 りがくりょうほう physiotherapy
性科学 せいかがく sexual science or sexology
抗老化医学 こうろうかいがく life extension
熱帯医学 ねったいいがく tropical medicine
医用生体工学 いようせいたいこうがく biomedical engineering
医療機器 いりょうきき medical devices
医学教育 いがくきょういく medical education
医学史(医史学) いがくし (いしがく) history of medicine
生命倫理学 せいめいりんりがく bioethics
医療人類学 いりょうじんるいが medical anthropology
病跡学 びょうせきがく pathography
医療社会学 いりょうしゃかいがくmedical sociology
医療経済学 いりょうけいざいがく health economics
宇宙医学 うちゅういがく space medicine
臨床情報工学 りんしょうじょうほうがく clinical computer science or clinical information engineering
生体機能代行装置学 せいたいきのうだいこうそうちがく
I can’t think of how to say this last one concisely, but it’s the study of medical devices that replace biological functions, e.g. heart-lung machines, ventilators, etc.