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Links: Nifty research
Jun. 14th, 2021 08:36 pmBreaking Down the Beat: The Art and Science of Beatboxing by Reed Blaylock, Nimisha Patil, Timothy Greer, Shrikanth Narayanan at the University of Southern California Speech Production and Articulation Knowledge Group. So cool to see the skill and coordination involved in making percussion sounds with the mouth and throat.
ETA new link: Beatboxing in IPA (on tiktok) by Jan Jasenwa on All Things Linguistic.
Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy by Geoff Boeing in Applied Network Science. This is a mathematical research paper, a little dry unless you're into that sort of thing, but scroll down to the distillation of street grids in Figures 4 and 5. Here they are full size:
Polar histograms of 100 world cities’ street orientations, sorted alphabetically
Polar histograms from Fig. 4, resorted by descending φ from most to least grid-like.
"Learning Each Other's Historical Narrative" in Israeli and Palestinian Schools by Prof. Sami Adwan, Bethlehem University and Prof. Dan Bar-On, Ben Gurion University.
Preliminary draft of English translation
This is beatboxing. Right now, you're watching a person's lips, tongue, and other speech organs work together to produce the art of beatboxing. These videos were recorded using real-time MRI, a cutting-edge technology used at USC.
ETA new link: Beatboxing in IPA (on tiktok) by Jan Jasenwa on All Things Linguistic.
Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy by Geoff Boeing in Applied Network Science. This is a mathematical research paper, a little dry unless you're into that sort of thing, but scroll down to the distillation of street grids in Figures 4 and 5. Here they are full size:
Polar histograms of 100 world cities’ street orientations, sorted alphabetically
Polar histograms from Fig. 4, resorted by descending φ from most to least grid-like.
"Learning Each Other's Historical Narrative" in Israeli and Palestinian Schools by Prof. Sami Adwan, Bethlehem University and Prof. Dan Bar-On, Ben Gurion University.
Preliminary draft of English translation
This project of the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME) focuses on teachers and schools as the critical force over the long term for changing deeply entrenched and increasingly polarized attitudes on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The goal of the project is to "disarm" the teaching of Middle East history in Israeli and Palestinian classrooms.
Specifically, teams of Palestinian and Israeli teachers and historians will develop parallel historical narratives of the Israeli and Palestinian communities, translate them into Hebrew and Arabic, and test their use together in both Palestinian and Israeli classrooms. Unlike other projects that are limited to revising existing Israeli and Palestinian texts, the PRIME project aims at engaging teachers on both sides in an entirely new collaborative process for teaching the history of the region.
