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How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?

...Latin. (Other audio demonstrations are available here) “We’ve explicitly focused on reproducing sound changes and etymologies that the established analyses already suggest, rather than seeking to overturn them,” says Coleman, whose research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. They have discovered words that appear to correctly ‘fall out’ of...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage
Science, Maths & Technology

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage

...Latin tectonicus and from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikos), meaning 'pertaining to building'). Transcript Take a ride through how the Earth’s surface has looked from 540 million years ago to the present day! In the last video it was clear that the Atlantic Ocean is still opening but the Pacific Ocean is closing and will close completely after about...
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Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge
Languages

Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge

...Latin) or his full name (Harijs Poters in Latvian, Haris Poteris in Lithuanian, and Hari Poter in Serbian). Ron Weasley has a few minor alterations except in Norwegian, where he becomes Ronny Wiltersen, and Hermione keeps her name pretty much intact (even the Norwegian translator keeps her name recognisable with Hermine Grang) but the pronunciation of her name is mostly...
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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...Latin Americans and Eastern Europeans as the ‘New Europeans’ most likely to exercise their newly acquired right of onward migration to the UK. Looking at the breakdown of these ‘New Europeans’ in 2013, 30,200 Moroccans, 38,900 Colombians and 38,400 Ecuadorians were granted citizenship in Spain, which also has the highest number of new citizenships granted...
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John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...Latin, that of the theological tract is in English. Assuming the contents are likewise in these two languages (which they are, in fact), we might begin to conjecture from this that Napier had different readers in mind. Given the substantial vernacular textbook tradition by this time (seventy or so years after the first appearance of Record’s works), we may infer that...
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The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...Latin, which boast a wealth of precise words describing specific kinds of love. Lee identified three primary forms of love. “Eros” denotes passion and desire, “ludus” refers to flirtatious, playful affection, and “storgē” describes familial or companionate bonds of care. He then paired these primary forms to produce three secondary forms: ludus plus storgē...
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To the Moon and beyond
Science, Maths & Technology

To the Moon and beyond

...Latin ‘mare’ meaning ‘sea’. Watch the video below as Tara Hayden discusses the structure of the Moon. Transcript Mini lecture Living on the Moon Tara Hayden: 50 years ago, the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon and this mission and the missions that followed it returned samples to earth that we then studied to understand the moon's makeup and also the volatiles...
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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...Latin America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Rose, Tricia (1994) Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press. Spitta, Silvia (1995) Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America. Houston: Rice University Press. Sundaram, Ravi (2010) Pirate Modernity: Delhi’s Media Urbanism, Oxon:...
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