You feel as though you are being pushed into the ground not because of a force called gravity, but because time is moving faster for your head than for your feet.
I love these Wired videos
This is about language just because 
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Excellent cautionary video about AI fakery on YouTube:
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Outside of Go, I am a filmmaker and lecturer at Fresno State and Fresno City College in Film, Animation, and Media-related subjects.
I have been working for the last year and a half on a documentary about my grandfather’s role in the history of raisins in Fresno and the Central San Joaquin Valley.
This project was funded by the City of Fresno through Measure P funding, administered by the Fresno Arts Council, and CMAC (Central Valley Media Access Collaborative) was our fiscal sponsor.
We also had assistance from the Fresno County Library Heritage Center, Andres Jaguerai of the Fresno State Business Department, Sunmaid, and AJ’s Armenian Cuisine. Thank you all for your support!
Please like and comment if you are so moved, and share the link with anyone you think might be interested in this story. Here is the link:
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Raisin-talk from Plum_Talk 
I enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing!
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Nice story, thanks, I LOVE raisins.
And BTW, when I was little and my mother told me that raisins were dried grapes, I didn’t believe her and thought she was kidding me 
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California raisins get dried in the sun, so they dry out slowly (Sun Made - Sunmaid), develop more antioxidants to protect the fruit as it dries, as well as a slightly earthier flavor compared to what you would get if you were to dehydrate seedless grapes. No, it isn’t particularly noticeable. This year, the crop will be half the normal size because of rain in late summer.
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Good documentary! I, too, love raisins. I eat some almost every morning on my cereal. When I was hiking, raisins and peanuts were my daily lunch. They are light and they keep practically forever when kept dry. They are a great survival food. The only problem in daily life is that they are high in calories, so I’m careful not to eat too many.
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Very interesting documentary about Deep Mind:
From playing games to folding proteins
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German video but … just turn on translated subs and listen to the examples 
Mirabile! Thema est pronunciatio linguae Latinae.
(Fascinating! The topic is the pronunciation of Latin.)
Fortunately my favourite Latin teacher (R.I.P., Herr Otte!), whom IIRC I had for five years, was also very interested in pronunciation, so most of this wasn’t new for me.
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In music school, we learned Latin pronunciation in Counterpoint class when we were studying 16th-century religious songs. It was later reinforced in Conducting class, which included one semester of choral conducting.
There are some pronunciation disputes, such as soft “C” or hard “C.” This dispute is highlighted in a scene in the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939).
I didn’t listen to the whole video, but he says that the “v” must sound like “w” like in “water”, and then he pronounced “virumque” with the “v” like “w” in “Wasser”.
I learnt latin between grades 8 and 10, but don’t remember much. We used more or less the correct pronunciation, except that we didn’t roll the “r”, and we said “magnus” like “mag-noos”.
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A video on the failure of a couple of governments to secure funding from the parliament in colonial Victoria, as well as the shenanigans they got up to to fund it without appropriations.
It’s part of a series Twomey is doing on the Whitlam dismissal, there’s a playlist of all the videos on her youtube page.
Seems that the dispute is not happening anymore?
The movie you’re referencing is from 1939, as you write
And IIRC it also depends where in the word the “C” is, if it is in the beginning, like with “caesar”, then it seems to be a hard C, as explained in the video.
The movie reference is to the end of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th century, when English schools switched from a soft “C” to a hard “C,” and Mr. Chips refused to teach “Cicero” as “Kickero.” I’ve read James Hilton’s novella upon which the movie was based, but don’t remember if that episode is in the book. However, I have read a separate written reference to the issue a long time ago, so I take it as real. Today, “Cicero” is universally pronounced “Sisero.” That would suggest that the issue is settled. However, the fact that it has bounced around over time, gives me no confidence in either side.
I take it that the dispute is connected to origins in Greek or Latin. For example, Celt was Keltoi (Gr.) or Celtae (L.). Today it is spelled with a C but pronounced Kelt. Meanwhile, the Boston Celtics, whose name is derived from the Irish Celts, is pronounced Seltics.
This concludes the usual OGS digression into linguistics.