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Can Animals Talk? - the linguistics behind animal language

Is language just for humans? Do other animals speak? Take a few minutes to explore animal communication with me. Aristotle may snip humans off from rest of the Animal Kingdom, but animals do communicate with each other. Ants leave pheromone trails, bees perform information-rich waggle dances, birds

The language of lying — Noah Zandan

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-language-of-lying-noah-zandan We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we’ve spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved unreliable. I

08 Finding Lewis Formulas

Lewis formulas describe the connections of atoms within a molecule. This screencast describes how these formulas can be determined when different types of atoms are involved. Original: "Wolfgang Dukorn" Original: German. All translations in this video have been done by the alugha AI.

Q12 Half Titration - Part 5

Part 5 on acid-base titrations. The performance of a half-titration is explained and its purpose for determining the pKs values of weak acids (or weak bases). Original: "Wolfgang Dukorn" Original: German. All translations in this video have been done by the alugha AI.

How computers translate human language - Ioannis Papachimonas

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-computers-translate-human-language-ioannis-papachimonas Is a universal translator possible in real life? We already have many programs that claim to be able to take a word, sentence, or entire book in one language and translate it into almost any othe