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How wordplay softens the hard truth

(3:41) Verbal camouflage, the art of softening the truth with words, is alive and well in US politics. But will the American public be fooled?

97%VideoPosted Feb 2013

Luis von Ahn - Massive-scale online collaboration

(16:40) Who'd have thought that with some brilliant lateral thinking, CAPTCHAs (the annoying security test that verifies you're human) can be simultaneously used to benefit humanity.

97%VideoPosted Dec 2011

George Carlin - The language of politics

(9:37) A great politician is a great communicator. A master of language himself, George Carlin delves into how politicians use language to make message appear like action.

96%VideoPosted Feb 2012

Richard Whiteley falls for Countdown Gotcha joke (1999)

The famous Richard Whiteley Gotcha from Noel's House Party. The Gotchas were basically hidden camera style practical jokes which were played on celebrities

95%VideoPosted Oct 2009

The power of words

Words are worth a thousand pennies. Marketing can help even the blind.

95%VideoPosted Apr 2011

Jason Wood - Genetically Modified Orgasms!

Australian Liberal backbencher Jason Wood trips over words when talking about the need for the government to conduct a review into genetically modified organisms and the safety of GM foods

95%VideoPosted Jun 2009

New words for Roget

Thesaurus update for office workers

95%TextPosted Feb 2005

David Mitchell's Soapbox - Dear Americans

(3:24) America's spelling and grammar comes under the glare of David Mitchell's beady eye.

95%VideoPosted Jun 2010

John Branyan - Three Little Pigs

(8:23) According to comedian John Branyan, Shakespeare had a working vocabulary of 54,000 words, compared to the average today of 3,000. So what would 'Three Little Pigs' have sounded like had you been born in Shakespeare's day?

94%VideoPosted Feb 2012

Countdown embarrassment

Lucky letters spell out...

94%VideoPosted Jun 2005

Unforgettable rant over the 'F' word

(4:06) Upset at getting arrested for saying the 'F' word in public, this guy goes to a city council meeting and tells his story.

94%VideoPosted Mar 2012

Words of the World - Nazi

(5:38) Where does the word Nazi come from and was it used by the Nazis themselves?

94%VideoPosted May 2013

War of the words

(6:30) Labels, soundbites and slogans are very powerful manipulators of thought.

94%VideoPosted Jan 2013

We're trucking!

(0:07) Seven seconds of YouTube gold.

94%VideoPosted Nov 2012

What we can learn from five million books

(14:09) Google have digitised millions of books (15 million to date), but short of reading them all, how can we practically use the accumulated words today? Google have created NGrams that allow you to trace the usage of any word or phrase in the historical record, opening up the science of 'culturomics' (the application of massive scale data collection and analysis to the study of human culture). From a TEDTalks in 2008 with Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel.

94%VideoPosted Sep 2011

Sarah Palin piano duet

Blah blah blah, and all that jazz

94%VideoPosted Nov 2008

Misheard lyrics

Interpretation of Temperature by Sean Paul

93%AnimationPosted Nov 2007

How to say 'Huygens' the Dutch way

(1:07) Professor takes a detour into the pronunciation of 'Huygens' while explaining Huygen's Principle to his physics students.

93%VideoPosted Oct 2012

Why English and American words are spelt differently

(1:57) Peter Sokolowski, editor at Merriam-Webster, explains how American-English spellings came to be.

93%VideoPosted May 2013

Lips of Babel

(3:17) Thirteen beautiful models from around the world recite tongue twisters in their native language.

93%VideoPosted Jan 2012

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