Friday, 28 January 2022

Metallica mashups

"Hip to be the sandman"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRx4LpYbQ4

 

"You make me feel like dancing (Sad but true)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW3IbwEvR4I

 

Radiohead + Taylor Swift - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y4BcsDqr14



Slayer vs B-52s - "Raining Lobsters"


Wednesday, 26 January 2022

loan word (loanword, loan-word), calque, lexeme

In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, "to calque" means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components. e.g. "skyscraper"

Thus it creates a new lexeme in that language.

 

A lexeme is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection: run, runs, ran, running are forms of the same lexeme, which can be represented by RUN.

 

cognates, or lexical cognates, are words that have a common etymological origin. Cognates are often inherited from a shared parent language, but they may also involve borrowings from some other language. For example, the English words dish, disk and desk, the German word Tisch ("table"), and the Latin word discus ("disk") are cognates because they all come Ancient Greek δίσκος ("dískos", "disk") which relates to their flat surfaces. Cognates may have evolved similar, different or even opposite meanings.

Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Huberman Lab podcast #56 - stress

Stress is manifold, complex; it is bad (stressing people out) yet sometimes good as it helps your body build up and release healthy nutricients and hormones.

Drug vs placebo effect is confusing. Placebo effect has been proving, but the effect of the actual drug is the combined effect of the chemical drug PLUS the placebo effect.

You only stress about things you care about; own the stress, understand why you care.

Thinking you eat healthy while you eat something "average" nutricious is counter productive; your body will think it is still hungry; and ghrelin, the hunger hormone, will not go down as fast. It's better to believe you're eating something delicious and unhealthy when you *are* eating unhealthy, because your mindset will help spur your body into thinking it had enough.

Monday, 24 January 2022

Sinéad O'Connor - "Gloomy Sunday"

Wonderfully sad. Automatic followup after Cyndi Lauper's "If you go away"

Matthew Walker - "Why we sleep"

Slightly terrifying book showing me how my past and current habits fuck up my brain.

Amazing stuff.