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| − | Not sure how much ancient history I'll post on this site, but this podcast, called ''[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew The Fall of Civilizations]'', is now watchable on a new YouTube channel. | + | Not sure how much ancient history I'll post on this site, but this podcast, called ''[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew The Fall of Civilizations]'', is now watchable on a new YouTube channel. Only the first 8 episodes have been converted to videos as of this writing, the newer (and longer) [https://soundcloud.com/fallofcivilizations podcasts] (Aztec, Byzantine, Han) can be found on Soundcloud. |
I won't embed the videos here, because for language learners it's always better to watch the video on youtube (after having clicked on CC -- on the lower right-hand side of the player -- to be sure you have the subtitles if you want them). | I won't embed the videos here, because for language learners it's always better to watch the video on youtube (after having clicked on CC -- on the lower right-hand side of the player -- to be sure you have the subtitles if you want them). | ||
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* Kieren McCarthy, "[https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles]", ''The Register'', 26 August 2020. | * Kieren McCarthy, "[https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles]", ''The Register'', 26 August 2020. | ||
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| + | *Alex Kelly, "[https://medium.com/the-gleaming-sword/hildegard-von-blingin-cornelius-link-and-the-rise-of-bardcore-9ce00a745933 The Rise of Bardcore]", ''Medium'', 18 July 2020. | ||
| + | *:Cf. [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ_jwWjf8u5mdtac71Be8QA Hildegard von Blingin'] | ||
Latest revision as of 12:02, 31 August 2020
Some recent finds:
Fall of Civilizations
Not sure how much ancient history I'll post on this site, but this podcast, called The Fall of Civilizations, is now watchable on a new YouTube channel. Only the first 8 episodes have been converted to videos as of this writing, the newer (and longer) podcasts (Aztec, Byzantine, Han) can be found on Soundcloud.
I won't embed the videos here, because for language learners it's always better to watch the video on youtube (after having clicked on CC -- on the lower right-hand side of the player -- to be sure you have the subtitles if you want them).
8. The Sumerians: Fall of the First Cities (published August 2020)
- 0:00 -- 5:00 The introduction sets the stage nicely with the story of an Italian who "rediscovered" cuneiform & the city of Ur.
- 23:15 -- theory of flood (origin? of Sumerians)
- 31:43 -- 34:06 Al Jazeera
- 35:08 -- (metals + mathematics 360°, 24h, 60m, etc.)
Scots Wikipedia
- Kieren McCarthy, "Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles", The Register, 26 August 2020.
Bardcore
- Alex Kelly, "The Rise of Bardcore", Medium, 18 July 2020.
