Tea: Qimen Caixia (“Sunrise Keemun”) black tea. Damon discusses tech that makes cochlear implants more versatile. Michael looks at methodologies of language learning. Also: little black worms, high quality science from Jurassic Park, listener assignments, taking a break, the new update for No Man’s Sky, Damon’s lack of impulse control, personal bankruptcy, going off script, the risks of playing a game in alpha, librarian glasses, Russian greetings, shout outs to San Francisco, taking business trips to ancient Rome, the new Doctor, the importance of context, and early-season Halloween costumes.
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Show notes
- Pacific Chorus Frog (aka Pacific Tree Frog)
- Qimen Caixia 2016 was covered in Episode 16
- Huang Shan mountains near Qimen County, Anhui, China
- Ready Player One on Amazon (affiliate)
- Dragonflight on Amazon (affiliate)
- American Gods, 10th Anniversary Edition on Amazon (affiliate)
- Overview of the No Man’s Sky “Atlas Rises” update
- An American Tail (IMDB)
- Cochlear implants (Wikipedia)
- The Reuters article about Apple’s interface with implants
- Broadchurch (IMDB)
- The “love chant” and more tenses, moods, and voices of amare
- Pimsleur Language Programs (Wikipedia)
- Spaced repetition (Wikipedia)
- Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata on Amazon (affiliate)
- Chapter 1 of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata with both text and audio by the author (aside: “audio” means “I hear”)
- Fluent In 3 Months
Our theme music was written by Lisa Purdy.
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