Previous Episode: 95 - Language

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/ 

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 SciShowTangents.Org!

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