SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
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episode 42: Language with Deboki Chakravarti
What would a podcast be without language? Perhaps a series of soothing tones? Maybe frog sounds? Wait… that sounds nice…
Need more sweet language knowledge?
Crash Course Linguistics: https://youtu.be/eDop3FDoUzk
Want more Deboki?
Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtu.be/17tug6T-4jc
Crash Course Organic Chemistry: https://youtu.be/bSMx0NS0XfY
And follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/okidoki_boki
And every other Tangents episode! She does a ton of behind the scenes work and we’d, frankly, be screwed without her! Thank you, Deboki!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Mustached bat sounds and syntax
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7962992/
Heaps Law
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/08/27/heaps-law/
Jackass penguin honks
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0589
https://www.livescience.com/jackass-penguin-linguistic-rules.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jackass-penguin-calls-follow-similar-rules-human-speech-180974139/
https://youtu.be/oTOcJj_NNUg
Speed dating communication
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/04/30/151550273/to-predict-dating-success-the-secrets-in-the-pronouns
Prairie dog chatter
https://www.prairiedoghoogland.com/vocalizations
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/79/3/887/859259
[Fact Off]
Facebook machine learning of language
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uops-fuc030620.php
Hypothetical spaceship language
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200706145433.htm
https://zenodo.org/record/3747353#.X1j66nlKiJc
[Ask the Science Couch]
Human language efficiency
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/complex-languages/489389/
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594
http://www.ithkuil.net/00_intro.html
Computer languages
https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/compiled-versus-interpreted-languages/
[Butt One More Thing]
Pumpernickel
https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-devilish-origins-of-pumpernickel/