Leuty Parker

Tag: #bbc

  • The News Quiz Revisited

    I listened to the News Quiz earlier today & it’s really enjoyable, but brought back some bad memories. I used to know & date someone who worked for radio 4 so revisiting the station held some interesting memories.

    (The News Quiz is on radio 4)

    I always used to really enjoy the News Quiz. It does keep me up to date on the news & it amuses me. I want this to be a future weekly thing; logging all the facts I get from the News Quiz, & blogging about it. That way I can make my readers who may be brain injury survivors, or just news enthusiasts interested in my blog.

    My graduation photographer

  • 15/6 -Apocolocyntosis

    I was listening to this download I have which is old episodes of radio 4 programs. This one in particular was an episode of “workaholics” which I imagine the old (& the current) Leuty likes. It does explore etymology amongst other things.

    They do a round on phobias, where it is said that phobias come from the Greek word where “phobos“ which means“fear”.

    “Arigata mayooahtoo” is a Japanese word which means when someone offers to do you a favour & you decline because you think it’d make you worse off, they do it anyway & it goes wrong, but because of social convention you have to behave as if you’re grateful.

    Natalie Hames comments that apppolocyntosis was formed by Senicca & it means the act of turning into a pumpkin. The Romans, for political reasons had to believe that when an emperor dies he turned into a god, this was called apotheosis.

    Seneca mocks Claudius (thinking he was terrible), & says he goes through “appolocyntosis” which is the act of turning into a pumpkin.

  • 20/4 – Movement

    It starts off talking about camels, from what it smells like, to its humps on its back.

    I have been watching this great program on BBC iPlayer called “Chris Packham’s animal einsteins“. It’s about how animals use, how they move in different ways, for different reasons.

    It then touches on when animals migrate & why that suits them best. It injects some scientific details.

    It explores fish, amphibians, stomatopods (briefly talks about the mantis shrimp, mented in David Attenborough’s “life in colour”, which I recommend), birds & insects.

    Just an example; I never knew spiders could fly by using static electricity.

    Scientists use the information they’ve learnt from how animals move, can predict our own movement, with the help of technology.

    This series proposes how animals build, communicate & cooperate, based on how & why animals move.

    It finishes with how animal brains of the natural world are far brighter, more sophisticated & flexible than we could ever have imagined.

    Watch it now! It’ll open your mind;

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000tqg3/chris-packhams-animal-einsteins-series-1-6-travellers