Transcript My hobby: sneaking into experiments and giving LSD to the control group Control group member 1: My rash seems to have shrunk by about 20% today. Control group member 2: OH GOD SPIDERS! Vocabulary to sneak into (v.) /sniːk/ to go quietly somewhere you are not supposed to go…
Transcript Header: It doesn’t seem right that we are old enough to have kids. Woman: Sweet! We made a baby! Man: Are we sure we did it right? We should disassemble it, check all the parts and put it back together. Vocabulary If you are old enough to do something,…
Transcript Y axis: Frequency of the use of the word “sustainable” in US English text, as a percentage of all words, by year. Source: Google ngrams 2036: “sustainable” occurs an average of once per page 2061: “sustainable” occurs an average of once per sentence 2019: all sentences are just the…
Transcript Box 1. Man 1: I’m going to buy this $10 game I want, and I’m donating $10 for malaria eradication. Box 2. Woman: If you actually cared, you’d skip the game and donate all $20. What’s more important? Games, or mosquito nets and medicine for kids? Box 3.…
Vocabulary GPS (n.) /ˌdʒiː.piːˈes/ (Global Positioning System) a system that can show the exact position of a person or thing by using signals from satellites (= objects in space that send signals to Earth) Context Does this make sense to you? If it doesn’t, it’s probably because you haven’t played…
