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Popnography

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We live in an age where being a slave to our impatience and short attention spans is almost a virtue, where watching television has made room for channel hopping, where listening to music involves skipping to choruses and jumping between tracks, where our attentions are constantly being pulled in a thousand different directions by our internetworked world.

It comes then as little surprise that one road to success is to cash in on our restlessness. Take a year’s worth of successful tunes, juice them, dissect them, distil their catchiness, then splice, blend and sew together a Frankenstein of audial goodies. That’s what you get with Daniel Kim’s Pop Danthologies: a highly concentrated concoction of successful pop anthems, a luxurious blend of first flush leaves, condensed and refined, the scion of sonic addiction grafted onto the stock of all that is pop.

This isn’t a danthology. This is hardcore popnography.

Autocue My Life

Sometimes a little punctuation goes a long way.

Language as a Window

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In Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker explains how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings, looking at cursing, metaphors and the issue of common knowledge. This video is only part of the full talk, brilliantly animated by RSA. ((Video of the complete talk available is on YouTube here.))

Die Sprache als Fenster zur menschlichen Natur

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In Language as a Window into Human Nature erklärt Steven Pinker, wie wir in unserem Hirn die begrenzte Menge an Sprachbausteinen in eine unbegrenzte Vielzahl an Bedeutungen umwandeln. Dabei bedient er sich des Fluchens, der Metaphern und des Allgemeinwissens. Dieses Video ist nur ein von RSA schön illustrierter Ausschnitt der gesamten Vorlesung. ((Das Video in voller Länge findet man auf YouTube hier.))

Why?

Great little short film on YouTube, asking some of the age-old questions, and answering some more pertinent ones, like why I won’t be committing suicide with British Rail.

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