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Early Latin borrowings: construction
Words such as museum, formula and ratio instantly give away their Latin origin, but did you know wall, street, and kitchen come from Latin too? They were borrowed during the Roman occupation of the part of Europe where Proto-West Germanic was spoken, the ancestor of English and its West Germanic sister languages.
Today’s infographic about construction terms shows six of these early borrowings and their descendants in English, Dutch, and German. Next time: food words.
How can you identify early loanwords from Latin? By analysing three aspects: stress shift, vowel reduction and certain preserved consonants. My short article below (750 words, tier 1) tells you all about it.
Livrustkammaren, Stockholm, Sweden
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if astrology was real it ought to be affected by anthropogenic space objects. imagine being like yeah this month has sucked for me bc the iss is in sagittarius
there is gold in the sky
I. Mass bends spacetime. In the proximity of mass, points separate in space draw closer together (i.e. a distant observer watches stuff fall toward the centre), and points separate in time pass slower (i.e. the same distant observer watches physics slow down). This phenomenon is known as "gravity." II. Gravity is pretty weak compared to the electromagnetic force. If the mass isn't that dense, then spacetime keeps flowing inward but the atoms inside spacetime bump up against each other. Their electrons stop each other from falling. This phenomenon is known as the "ground." III. The ground has a limit to its strength; gravity does not. IV. If the mass is denser, then atoms collapse into themselves, and the protons and electrons merge into neutrons. But gravity is even weaker compared to the strong nuclear force, so if the mass isn't super-dense, then spacetime keeps flowing inward but the neutrons bump up against each other. Their quarks stop each other from falling. This phenomenon is known as "neutronium." V. Neutronium has a limit to its strength; gravity does not. VI. If the mass is even denser, then weird shit happens. There's no physical mechanism which lets quarks collapse in on themselves, but there's also no physical mechanism which lets them not collapse, because the quarks beneath them are falling even faster. The quarks at the centre keep falling into the centre even though they're already at the centre. There is no more up; there are only different speeds of down. This phenomenon is known as a "black hole." VII. Even for distant observers, black holes still have a measurable size, mass, rotation, and duration within spacetime. Weirdly, the size is proportional to the square root of the mass, instead of the cube root like normal matter. It's as if the whole mass gets smeared out onto an oblate spherical shell, with nothing on the inside. This kind of makes sense if you think about a distant observer watching physics slow down: at a black hole boundary it slows down all the way to zero, so you can never actually watch anything go through that shell, only get shellacked onto the outside. This phenomenon is known as a "firewall," and physicists are still debating whether it's real or an observational artifact. I prefer to think of it as "weird shit." VII. Logically it is ridiculous to suppose that spacetime keeps falling forever into whatever is at the centre of mass. We have conservation laws. How can spacetime just keep flowing out of the universe? So there are theories about black holes being wormholes to white holes that spew matter outward, or about white holes being other universes' big bangs, or about spacetime just kind of getting denser and denser as it rotates around the centre, because gravity might have no limit but neither does centrifugal force, or about spacetime getting stuck-for-real in the firewall until the black hole evaporates, or about gravity being mediated at tiny scales by a quantum particle that spins all the way around every 180 degrees. All of these theories are supported by viable mathematics. None of them has been proven. This phenomenon is known as "theoretical physics." VIII. In order to preserve any semblance of conservation of spacetime, something has to be holding up the universe at the centre of a black hole, whether it's centrifugal force, or a firewall, or an equal-and-opposite white hole at the big bang of our own universe, or whatever else. IX. Physicists can sometimes get lost in the math and miss the obvious. X. The dude holding up the inside of a black hole is obviously Atlas. I will not be taking questions at this time.
new kind of guy dropped
he's unironically 100% correct and i will hear nothing against him
>named viktor
>loses
stocktausch
>heißt viktor
>verliert
the lichen knowledge iceberg i have constructed on request
I'm going to steal all the instruments from musictown!
some fern embroidery for spring <3
i’m going to an ostara celebration today! this is the second time that i’ve embroidered ferns, and i’m happy with how it turned out. i started with a darker green and integrated a lighter color as i got closer to the ends of the fronds to create a gradient :)
I don't know if this necessarily counts as a sign but I thought it might fit. Found in Denver, CO
Franny Choi, Soft Science
Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)
this is how they look
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, CRUSTACEAN.
my tags need to go in the main part of the post actually
There's a different species of barnacle, Sacculina, that parasitizes crabs in a similar way to this. It has a very cursed lifecycle and I assume the crab is also having a weird time.
I think i've heard of this one.
I just looked it up—it injects itself into the crab's body and replaces the crab's genitals with itself, grows roots into the crab's organs (including its brain), and controls the crab's behaviors so the crab will take care of the Sacculina larvae as a female crab would its own babies—if the crab is male, the Sacculina parasite will make the crab's body produce female hormones to basically change it to female.
This is so cool...how did this even develop? How did the parasite evolve to do that? How ancient would this relationship have to be for something so complex to form?
Wait, wouldn't this guy be a parasitoid rather than a parasite, even if it doesn't kill its host, because it totally eliminates the host's ability to reproduce?
Parasitism is wild because it ranges from organisms that are using another organism's resources but have a very minimal negative effect and for the most part are just hanging out, to stuff like this where the parasite is basically piloting the host's body like a mech suit.
The fun thing about it is that symbiosis exists on a kind of spectrum between parasitism and mutualism, and sometimes organisms can switch between parasitism, commensalism and mutualism throughout their evolutionary history and even individually depending on an organism's situation.
But I think it's usually at the extreme ends of the spectrum where you see these freaky levels of codependency where organisms become unrecognizable in the process of merging together.
I find this art compelling in that it makes me imagine the point of view of the parasite for some reason. It feels so vulnerable to be so specialized—if your host goes extinct, you go extinct too, there is no other option. If you have shaped your body to fit into a familiar body and that body disappears, you are nothing. You also disappear.