Here's some good stuff I've found on YouTube this week: - How do you sing in a tonal language like Chinese? This is a linguistics question that I've definitely thought of asking before... I just never got around to looking it up. Well, now I have the answer -- and it is, of course, more complicated than the initial answer might suggest. This video by Julesy does a good job of breaking it down. (Thanks to Matt for sending this over.)
- Florence Ryan is cycling across Africa, and has just arrived in Ethiopia. This was fascinating to watch: I'm clearly arriving in the middle of the story, but this can be watched as a standalone episode -- and it's from someone who's
attempting a far greater challenge than anything I've ever tried. It's a snapshot of a dangerous time and place, with the cyclists, exhausted, just passing through.
- I keep linking to Alexis Dahl's videos, because they keep being excellent, and in this case made a squishy, biology-based subject interesting to this very non-biology nerd: did you know Michigan isn't supposed to have earthworms?
And around the rest of the web: And finally, a spectacular Instagram video: driving into a hailstorm. Particularly remarkable if you have a device that displays HDR video.
All the best,
— Tom |
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