The beautiful languages of the people who talk like birds
The Hmong still use their whistled language, particularly in traditional ceremonies (Credit: Getty Images) Their unusual whistled speech may reveal what humanity’s first words sounded like. If you are ever lucky enough to visit the foothills of the Himalayas, you may hear a remarkable duet ringing through the forest. To the untrained ear, it might sound like musicians warming up a strange instrume
Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 (Published 2017)
Jean Sammet, who brought computing into the business mainstream, at the University of Maryland in 1979 to deliver a lecture.Credit...Ben Shneiderman Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in Maryland. She was 89. She lived in a retirement community in Silver Spring and died at a
NASA Is Launching a Probe to a Star
For one NASA mission, flying too close to the sun isn’t a concern. It’s the whole point. On Wednesday, the space agency announced some details about its planned mission to send a robotic spacecraft into the sun’s upper atmosphere, a first for humanity. NASA said it would rename the Solar Probe Plus mission after Eugene Parker, an American astrophysicist who first wrote about the dynamics of solar
How air conditioning changed the world
BBC World Service, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy Imagine we could control the weather - pushing a button to make it warmer or cooler, wetter or drier. The implications would be enormous. No more droughts or floods, no heat waves or icy roads. Deserts would become verdant. Crops would never fail. In fact climate change has sparked some crazy-sounding ideas for hacking the climate, such as
Jazz for Cows - YouTube
http://www.newhot5.com. The New Hot 5, American-based jazz band plays for a herd of cows in Autrans, France. The unedited footage is now uploaded on our channel in two parts. If you want to hear more, check out our other videos of concerts for humans. The two songs in this video are both in the public domain: 1. "When the Saints Go Marching In" is a traditional early American folk hymn of unknown
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