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Laoshu – Foreign Language Roadrunning
Yesterday, we lost a local legend. Moses “Laoshu” McCormick was a giant among polyglots, having developed his own Foreign Language Roadrunning method to practice and speak dozens of languages. He recently became internet famous for finding foreigners and surprising them with conversations in their native languages. I’m fortunate to have met Moses and Marcell at our local fighting game meetups and Asian Festivals, and I’m glad Moses could pass on his knowledge through his online courses.
Source: Laoshu505000 and Foreign Language Running
Common MythConceptions
Information is Beautiful is here to tell you you’re wrong. This infographic goes over dozens of common misconceptions in an easy-to-read color-coded format. Read it; you might learn something!
Six video posts in a row? Really? You guys seem to like the image posts more, so I'll try to do them more often. Click this to go to the full infographic.
Source: Information is Beautiful via several Tumblr users via Kuroutsubasa; infographic sources Wikipedia
"Weird Al" Yankovic – Word Crimes
“Weird Al” Yankovic is fed up with your misspelled and misused words. It’s not that hard, people. Even on phones, keyboards like Swype make it easy enough to use proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation. There’s plenty of red pen in this video, but this is the first time since high school that I’ve seen a sentence diagram. I heard this song at RiffTrax Live’s screening of The Room, a legendary bad movie that commits crimes against words, storytelling, logic, anatomy, and football.
Source: YouTube via the trivia slides for RiffTrax Live: The Room, parody of Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell
personal take from a research freak that i think most folks will agree with past the ol’ library sentiments is how much cheap n’ otherwise used books should not be so underestimated, if it says it is in usable condition, with atleast no pages missing amongst the otherwise advertised damages, you should snatch em up
in most cases it will be a little weather beaten, carry lingering touches both gentle and roughed up, yearning for knowledge at the height of it's quintessence cannot be accomplished without acknowledging what might be wiped out entirely
be the aesthetic academician™️ you want to fantastize about being
You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).
Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.
Morning jewels: "the eye was born, knowledge was born, wisdom was born, science was born, light was born. It is always seeing through knowledge or wisdom, and not believing through blind faith." #whatthebuddhataught #budism #bookstagram #books #jewels #wisdom #knowledge #selfdevelopment #journey
"In positivity, balance = negativity..." Dirty Rotten Scoundrel. I want nothing but lyrics, bruh, no junk on my set. #jeruthedamaja #creativity #knowledge #wisdom #understanding #90shiphop #90shiphopjunkie #mcs #gangstarr
You fell in love
With my black cherry lips
Without the knowledge
Of the pit within