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Ruth Mottram

I can't be the only one who spends weekend mornings doing #housework and listening to podcasts. This was a wonderful episode on black in nature from #Radiolab
The Darkest Dark

wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radio

on the as ever brilliant @AntennaPod
#AntennaPodRecs

Episode link: pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/14/pr

Radiolab Podcasts | WNYC StudiosRadiolab: Podcasts | WNYC Studios | PodcastsInvestigating a strange world.
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Tucker Teague

#OTD in 1938, Orson Welles and the Radio Mercury Theater broadcast their version of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds." In 2008 #Radiolab did an episode on that (in)famous broadcast, and then they replayed it in 2018. Here it is and it's worth the listen:

radiolab.org/podcast/war-world

Radiolab Podcasts | WNYC StudiosWar of the WorldsFor the 80th anniversary of Orson Welles' 1938 radio play "The War of the Worlds," we take a deep dive into one of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history.
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Adrianna Tan

Learned from this #Radiolab episode that Wubi is a huge technological and linguistic achievement, extremely efficient. I wondered why I never learned it and only know pinyin. Turns out if you force people to type in pinyin it makes them rely on Mandarin.

I find pinyin inefficient and as someone who speaks southern Chinese languages before Mandarin, it can be hard to spell correctly all the time. Also it makes me forget how to write characters

radiolab.org/podcast/wubi-effe

Radiolab Podcasts | WNYC StudiosThe Wubi EffectIn the 1980s, as China was modernizing, they ran into a problem. There was no way to fit their 70,000 plus character language on a QWERTY keyboard. Today, the story of how they did it.
#Chinese#Languages
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