barnettlg
@barnettlg.bsky.social
I am interested computer gaming and also Welsh and local politics, listener of Radio Cymru and Radio 4, Dr Who and Star Trek, economics, science, reading, linguistics and languages. Cymraeg, learning Deutsch, Svenska and español.
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What's small, covered in feathers, and loves sweets? The subject of our #PictureOfTheWeek, of course!
🍯 The honeyguide depends on eating wax from honey bees. But the bird can’t get into hives on its own, says ecologist Rob Dunn. So it strikes up a sweet deal with humans: buff.ly/nG8WlwU
🍯 The honeyguide depends on eating wax from honey bees. But the bird can’t get into hives on its own, says ecologist Rob Dunn. So it strikes up a sweet deal with humans: buff.ly/nG8WlwU
October 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What's small, covered in feathers, and loves sweets? The subject of our #PictureOfTheWeek, of course!
🍯 The honeyguide depends on eating wax from honey bees. But the bird can’t get into hives on its own, says ecologist Rob Dunn. So it strikes up a sweet deal with humans: buff.ly/nG8WlwU
🍯 The honeyguide depends on eating wax from honey bees. But the bird can’t get into hives on its own, says ecologist Rob Dunn. So it strikes up a sweet deal with humans: buff.ly/nG8WlwU
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Lindsay Whittle o Blaid Cymru sydd wedi ennill is-etholiad Caerffili.
October 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Lindsay Whittle o Blaid Cymru sydd wedi ennill is-etholiad Caerffili.
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A new book asks: What does it really mean to be a genius?
What The Label Of ‘Genius’ Tells Us About Our Society
In “The Genius Myth,” Helen Lewis argues that who we call a genius reveals more about our values than any objective measure of brilliance.
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September 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
A new book asks: What does it really mean to be a genius?
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New alleged podcast comes amid reports of knobbly monsters.
In latest episode of Words Unravelled, @robwords.bsky.social and I report on:
🗞️ News jargon and clichés
🐊 Crash blossoms and knobbly monsters
🖍️ Editorial shorthand
📓 The origins of magazine, gazette, and journal
Watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you get your podcasts:
youtu.be/Q_A1OtVd8RA?...
🗞️ News jargon and clichés
🐊 Crash blossoms and knobbly monsters
🖍️ Editorial shorthand
📓 The origins of magazine, gazette, and journal
Watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you get your podcasts:
youtu.be/Q_A1OtVd8RA?...
Why do news anchors all sound the same? | NEWS WORDS
YouTube video by Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris
youtu.be
August 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
New alleged podcast comes amid reports of knobbly monsters.
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Word of the Day: llyfrwallgof geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html..., llyfr (book)+gwallgof (mad), meaning bibliomania or a biblomaniac, a person who is extremely enthusiastic or 'mad' about reading books and passionate about collecting and owning them. Do you know anybody who might be called llyfrwallgof?
September 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Word of the Day: llyfrwallgof geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html..., llyfr (book)+gwallgof (mad), meaning bibliomania or a biblomaniac, a person who is extremely enthusiastic or 'mad' about reading books and passionate about collecting and owning them. Do you know anybody who might be called llyfrwallgof?
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Retro Newsround: 3rd Edition (21st August 2025)
A brand new "plug & play" Light Gun for modern TVs, Sir Clive Sinclair's nephew invents a new handheld games machine, LEGO release a buildable Game Boy, plus more retro news stories ...
A brand new "plug & play" Light Gun for modern TVs, Sir Clive Sinclair's nephew invents a new handheld games machine, LEGO release a buildable Game Boy, plus more retro news stories ...
New TV Light Gun | Sinclair Gaming Handheld | LEGO Game Boy | & more
YouTube video by RetroSpectives
youtu.be
August 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Retro Newsround: 3rd Edition (21st August 2025)
A brand new "plug & play" Light Gun for modern TVs, Sir Clive Sinclair's nephew invents a new handheld games machine, LEGO release a buildable Game Boy, plus more retro news stories ...
A brand new "plug & play" Light Gun for modern TVs, Sir Clive Sinclair's nephew invents a new handheld games machine, LEGO release a buildable Game Boy, plus more retro news stories ...
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Earlier this summer, astronomers spotted a comet visiting us from another solar system. Plus, scientists studying dust from the Bennu asteroid found stardust that's older than our solar system.
Meet 3I/Atlas, An Object From Another Solar System
The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from far-off solar systems.
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September 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Earlier this summer, astronomers spotted a comet visiting us from another solar system. Plus, scientists studying dust from the Bennu asteroid found stardust that's older than our solar system.
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BEHOLD my latest video, in which a sweaty man tries to teach you hieroglyphs.
youtu.be/90An1dnvwyc
Please watch.
Cheers,
𓂋𓃀𓏏
Rebet
youtu.be/90An1dnvwyc
Please watch.
Cheers,
𓂋𓃀𓏏
Rebet
Hieroglyphs are easier than they look
YouTube video by RobWords
youtu.be
August 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
BEHOLD my latest video, in which a sweaty man tries to teach you hieroglyphs.
youtu.be/90An1dnvwyc
Please watch.
Cheers,
𓂋𓃀𓏏
Rebet
youtu.be/90An1dnvwyc
Please watch.
Cheers,
𓂋𓃀𓏏
Rebet
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🚀🧲 One of my summer projects has been restoring Richard Feynman's Fun to Imagine series.
Please share if you know anyone who might appreciate it! 🙏✨🙌
seriouslyscientific.com/RichardFeynman
#science #physics #restoration #RichardFeynman #FunToImagine #videorestoration #Feynman #quantumphysics
Please share if you know anyone who might appreciate it! 🙏✨🙌
seriouslyscientific.com/RichardFeynman
#science #physics #restoration #RichardFeynman #FunToImagine #videorestoration #Feynman #quantumphysics
July 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🚀🧲 One of my summer projects has been restoring Richard Feynman's Fun to Imagine series.
Please share if you know anyone who might appreciate it! 🙏✨🙌
seriouslyscientific.com/RichardFeynman
#science #physics #restoration #RichardFeynman #FunToImagine #videorestoration #Feynman #quantumphysics
Please share if you know anyone who might appreciate it! 🙏✨🙌
seriouslyscientific.com/RichardFeynman
#science #physics #restoration #RichardFeynman #FunToImagine #videorestoration #Feynman #quantumphysics
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It still blows my mind that Voyager 1 has been travelling through space at over 60,000 km/h for as long as Ive been alive - and it still hasn’t even reached the Oort Cloud.. 🤯🤯🤯
It should reach the edge in about 300 years from now! 🚀
It should reach the edge in about 300 years from now! 🚀
August 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It still blows my mind that Voyager 1 has been travelling through space at over 60,000 km/h for as long as Ive been alive - and it still hasn’t even reached the Oort Cloud.. 🤯🤯🤯
It should reach the edge in about 300 years from now! 🚀
It should reach the edge in about 300 years from now! 🚀
Memories. Yes, I recall BASIC, a programming language used, for example, on the Amstrad CPC 464 before I had a Windows computer.
August 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Memories. Yes, I recall BASIC, a programming language used, for example, on the Amstrad CPC 464 before I had a Windows computer.
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Scientists at @spun.earth have unveiled an atlas of the underground fungal networks that support life on Earth. 🌍🍄
‘Underground Atlas’ Shows How Vulnerable Fungal Networks Are
Underground fungal networks are crucial to life on Earth. But a new map shows that less than 10% of fungal hotspots are in protected areas.
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August 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Scientists at @spun.earth have unveiled an atlas of the underground fungal networks that support life on Earth. 🌍🍄
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“Ice melts because the atoms jiggle so much they break the structure.”
– Richard Feynman
Only Feynman could explain phase change like this – poetic, precise, profoundly simple.
First part of my restoration of Fun to Imagine (Jiggling Atoms).
See all playlists here: youtube.com/@SeriouslyScientific
– Richard Feynman
Only Feynman could explain phase change like this – poetic, precise, profoundly simple.
First part of my restoration of Fun to Imagine (Jiggling Atoms).
See all playlists here: youtube.com/@SeriouslyScientific
Richard Feynman - Jiggling Atoms | Restored & Remastered | HD | 4K
YouTube video by Seriously Scientific
youtu.be
July 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
“Ice melts because the atoms jiggle so much they break the structure.”
– Richard Feynman
Only Feynman could explain phase change like this – poetic, precise, profoundly simple.
First part of my restoration of Fun to Imagine (Jiggling Atoms).
See all playlists here: youtube.com/@SeriouslyScientific
– Richard Feynman
Only Feynman could explain phase change like this – poetic, precise, profoundly simple.
First part of my restoration of Fun to Imagine (Jiggling Atoms).
See all playlists here: youtube.com/@SeriouslyScientific
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“It’s like a ball trying to climb a hill, there’s a deep hole, like a volcano, but the ball just rolls away… Unless it’s going fast enough, then it falls in.” – Richard Feynman
Feynman describes activation energy so eloquently while explaining fire:
SeriouslyScientific.com/Fun-To-Imagine-Part-02
Feynman describes activation energy so eloquently while explaining fire:
SeriouslyScientific.com/Fun-To-Imagine-Part-02
Richard Feynman - Fire | Restored & Remastered | HD | 4K
YouTube video by Seriously Scientific
youtu.be
July 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“It’s like a ball trying to climb a hill, there’s a deep hole, like a volcano, but the ball just rolls away… Unless it’s going fast enough, then it falls in.” – Richard Feynman
Feynman describes activation energy so eloquently while explaining fire:
SeriouslyScientific.com/Fun-To-Imagine-Part-02
Feynman describes activation energy so eloquently while explaining fire:
SeriouslyScientific.com/Fun-To-Imagine-Part-02
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FLIPPIN' HECK!!
Words Unravelled has been nominated for a BRITISH PODCAST AWARD!
How's about that @jesszafarris.bsky.social ?
Thank you so much if you have listened or watched.
And extra thanks to our third word nerd, editor @martynmnw.bsky.social
Words Unravelled has been nominated for a BRITISH PODCAST AWARD!
How's about that @jesszafarris.bsky.social ?
Thank you so much if you have listened or watched.
And extra thanks to our third word nerd, editor @martynmnw.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
FLIPPIN' HECK!!
Words Unravelled has been nominated for a BRITISH PODCAST AWARD!
How's about that @jesszafarris.bsky.social ?
Thank you so much if you have listened or watched.
And extra thanks to our third word nerd, editor @martynmnw.bsky.social
Words Unravelled has been nominated for a BRITISH PODCAST AWARD!
How's about that @jesszafarris.bsky.social ?
Thank you so much if you have listened or watched.
And extra thanks to our third word nerd, editor @martynmnw.bsky.social
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) says that fireworks aren't just for Earthlings. Just take a look at this planetary nebula surrounded by distant galaxies as proof.
📷: NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
📷: NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
July 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) says that fireworks aren't just for Earthlings. Just take a look at this planetary nebula surrounded by distant galaxies as proof.
📷: NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
📷: NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
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Higher intake of sugar sweetened beverages was associated with higher all cause mortality and cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality among adults with type 2 diabetes, whereas intakes of coffee, tea, plain water, and low fat milk were inversely associated with all cause mortality.
July 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Higher intake of sugar sweetened beverages was associated with higher all cause mortality and cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality among adults with type 2 diabetes, whereas intakes of coffee, tea, plain water, and low fat milk were inversely associated with all cause mortality.
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Word of the Day: anhreuliedig geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
A word with two meanings: 'indigestible and undigested (of food, &c.)' and 'inexhaustible, imperishable, endless, unspent and unexhausted'. The latter meaning of the word is used in R. Williams Parry's famous poem, Y Llwynog.
A word with two meanings: 'indigestible and undigested (of food, &c.)' and 'inexhaustible, imperishable, endless, unspent and unexhausted'. The latter meaning of the word is used in R. Williams Parry's famous poem, Y Llwynog.
July 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Word of the Day: anhreuliedig geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
A word with two meanings: 'indigestible and undigested (of food, &c.)' and 'inexhaustible, imperishable, endless, unspent and unexhausted'. The latter meaning of the word is used in R. Williams Parry's famous poem, Y Llwynog.
A word with two meanings: 'indigestible and undigested (of food, &c.)' and 'inexhaustible, imperishable, endless, unspent and unexhausted'. The latter meaning of the word is used in R. Williams Parry's famous poem, Y Llwynog.
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Gair y Dydd: anhreuliedig geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
Ar ddiwrnod braf fel heddiw, gellir uniaethu â geiriau R. Williams Parry yn soned Y Llwynog, yn sôn am "anhreuliedig haul Gorffennaf gwych / Yn gwahodd tua'r mynydd".
Un ystyr i'r gair yw dihysbydd, diddarfod a diddiwedd.
Ar ddiwrnod braf fel heddiw, gellir uniaethu â geiriau R. Williams Parry yn soned Y Llwynog, yn sôn am "anhreuliedig haul Gorffennaf gwych / Yn gwahodd tua'r mynydd".
Un ystyr i'r gair yw dihysbydd, diddarfod a diddiwedd.
July 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Gair y Dydd: anhreuliedig geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
Ar ddiwrnod braf fel heddiw, gellir uniaethu â geiriau R. Williams Parry yn soned Y Llwynog, yn sôn am "anhreuliedig haul Gorffennaf gwych / Yn gwahodd tua'r mynydd".
Un ystyr i'r gair yw dihysbydd, diddarfod a diddiwedd.
Ar ddiwrnod braf fel heddiw, gellir uniaethu â geiriau R. Williams Parry yn soned Y Llwynog, yn sôn am "anhreuliedig haul Gorffennaf gwych / Yn gwahodd tua'r mynydd".
Un ystyr i'r gair yw dihysbydd, diddarfod a diddiwedd.
Happy Independence Day to the USA. Dydd Annibyniaeth Hapus i'r Unol Daleithiau.
July 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Happy Independence Day to the USA. Dydd Annibyniaeth Hapus i'r Unol Daleithiau.
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Word of the Day sgwmffol www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Scaffold, scaffolding (an older word from Glamorganshire)
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June 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Word of the Day sgwmffol www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Scaffold, scaffolding (an older word from Glamorganshire)
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Gair y Dydd sgwmffol www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Sgaffald, sgaffaldwaith (gair hŷn o Forgannwg)
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June 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Gair y Dydd sgwmffol www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Sgaffald, sgaffaldwaith (gair hŷn o Forgannwg)
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I am fascinated with the history of words, etymology. History of English words and French is quite an interesting topic.
You can often swap the É at the start of a French word with an S and get closer to the English equivalent:
🇫🇷 État 🇬🇧 State
🇫🇷 Étude 🇬🇧 Study
🇫🇷 Étrange 🇬🇧 Strange
🇫🇷 Écoute 🇬🇧 Scout (seriously, they're related)
But why?
@jesszafarris.bsky.social and I have been talking it out.
youtu.be/PfK6C7NASqQ
🇫🇷 État 🇬🇧 State
🇫🇷 Étude 🇬🇧 Study
🇫🇷 Étrange 🇬🇧 Strange
🇫🇷 Écoute 🇬🇧 Scout (seriously, they're related)
But why?
@jesszafarris.bsky.social and I have been talking it out.
youtu.be/PfK6C7NASqQ
Why is English full of French words?
YouTube video by Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris
youtu.be
June 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I am fascinated with the history of words, etymology. History of English words and French is quite an interesting topic.
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A wonderful thing I learned this week is that a "clock" gets its name from the fact it has a bell, not from the fact it shows the time.
It's related to 🇩🇪Glocke and 🇫🇷cloche, both of which mean 🔔
Thanks @jesszafarris.bsky.social
It's related to 🇩🇪Glocke and 🇫🇷cloche, both of which mean 🔔
Thanks @jesszafarris.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A wonderful thing I learned this week is that a "clock" gets its name from the fact it has a bell, not from the fact it shows the time.
It's related to 🇩🇪Glocke and 🇫🇷cloche, both of which mean 🔔
Thanks @jesszafarris.bsky.social
It's related to 🇩🇪Glocke and 🇫🇷cloche, both of which mean 🔔
Thanks @jesszafarris.bsky.social