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Mike Wesch

How English erased its roots to become the global tongue of the 21st century | Books | ... - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 18 May 10 - Cached
  • Mike Wesch on 18 May 10
     
    "journalist Ben Macintyre writes: "I was recently waiting for a flight in Delhi, when I overheard a conversation between a Spanish UN peacekeeper and an Indian soldier. The Indian spoke no Spanish; the Spaniard spoke no Punjabi. Yet they understood one another easily. The language they spoke was a highly simplified form of English, without grammar or structure, but perfectly comprehensible, to them and to me. Only now do I realise that they were speaking "Globish", the newest and most widely spoken language in the world.""
scross

Second Life affair ends in divorce - CNN.com - 0 views

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shared by scross on 24 Nov 08 - Cached
  • scross on 24 Nov 08
     
    A British couple who married in a lavish Second Life wedding ceremony are to divorce after one of them had an alleged "affair" in the online world."> text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Matthew Schuler

Smarty Plants: Inside the World's Only Plant-Intelligence Lab - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 24 Jan 08 - Cached
  • "If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us," says Mancuso, dressed in harmonizing shades of his favorite color: green. "Not only are they 'smart' in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it without neuroses. Intelligence isn't only about having a brain."
  • plants have a lot to contribute in fields as disparate as robotics and telecommunications. For instance, current projects at the LINV include a plant-inspired robot in development for the European Space Agency. The "plantoid" might be used to explore the Martian soil by dropping mechanical "pods" capable of communicating with a central "stem," which would send data back to Earth.
  • Mancuso decided to use the controversial term "plant neurobiology" to reinforce the idea that plants have biochemistry, cell biology and electrophysiology similar to the human nervous system.
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  • In addition to studies on the effects of music on vineyards, the center's researchers have also published papers on gravity sensing, plant synapses and long-distance signal transmission in trees.
  • "Plants communicate via chemical substances," Mancuso says. "They have a specific and fairly extensive vocabulary to convey alarms, health and a host of other things. We just have sound waves broken down into various languages, I don't see how we could bridge the gap."
Mike Wesch

YouTube - How to do the Asian squat - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 30 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Mike Wesch on 30 Jul 08
     
    My friends in New Guinea squat like this and can't understand why I have so much trouble doing it. Even after watching these helpful instructions I still can't do it right.
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