Venice is flooded by the highest tide since 1960
Australia is under catastrophic bushfires
In California over 94000 acres have already burned
We are living the 6th mass extinction (remember dinosaurs?)
We ingest 5 gr of plastic every week
Trump confirms US will leave the Paris climate agreement
Jane Fonda got arrested 4 times in a row because of her activism
AND YOU ARE DOING NOTHING.
LOL.
Design / Animation: Nerdo
Sound: Smider
Created in direct response to the Australian Bushfire crisis, Darcy Prendergast’s new film #TomorrowsOnFire is a rallying cry for hope, in a country increasingly scarce of it.
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian — that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. “The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,” Boroditsky says. “Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.”
How language shapes the way we think
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian — that suggest the answer is a…
It turns out that Google searches for the cost of something vary widely depending on the country of interest. via fixr. A big thanks to George for bringing this to my attension
