August 13, 2014 in Science & Technology

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Subscribe to Vsauce! It’s free. CLICK HERE: http://goo.gl/A0vu8u my twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce my instagram: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants SOURCES AND MORE BELOW! Jake from Vsauce3 and I on his show, “Talk-o Time”: http://youtu.be/wYbVRLKwy-U Old Vsauce video on Déjà vu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSf8i8bHIns Dord: http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0027-ghostword.html collateral adjectives: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/b-collateral-adjective-pairs-b amazing collection of English word facts: http://www.questrel.com/records.html How many words rhyme? http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1946 ThinkFact on rhymes [VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daEU7MVfJ1U gramograms: http://www.highlightpress.com.au/list-of-gramograms.html https://www.wordnik.com/lists/gramograms-words-that-sound-like-letters phantonyms: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=1& hangman analysis (best words to fool people): http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/08/13/25-best-hangman-words/ police: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sentences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo Esquivalience: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/08/29/not-a-word http://boingboing.net/2011/08/02/esquivalience-at-what-point-does-a-fake-word-become-real.html Trivial Pursuit story: http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/firstnamecourt.htm a good article on Columbo’s actual name: http://frankcolumboswristwatch.tumblr.com/frank “The Pun Also Rises” book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Also-Rises-John-Pollack/dp/1592406750 The Oatmeal and irony: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/irony