Alaskan Triangle, Viking Interactions with Muslims, and Music Lessons Improve Language Skills
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Music Lessons Will Improve Your Language Skills
- Thousands of People Have Mysteriously Disappeared in "Alaska's Bermuda Triangle"
Notes from the story about 10th-century Vikings and the Muslim world:
- The Strangely Revealing Debate Over Viking Couture | The Atlantic
- The Rise and Fall of the Viking “Allah” Textile | Hyperallergic
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Ashley Aamer. |
| 0:07.0 | Today you'll learn about the mysterious Bermuda Triangle of Alaska, |
| 0:10.0 | how music lessons can help you learn language skills and archaeological evidence |
| 0:14.8 | that there was contact between 10th century Vikings and the Muslim world. |
| 0:18.2 | That's set us by some curiosity. Ashley what do you think of when you think of |
| 0:21.4 | Vikings? I think of my heritage actually I'm I'm related to Eric the Red |
| 0:25.7 | What? Yeah, shut up that's like the most famous ancestor that I have how do you know that? I don't know my mom told me |
| 0:41.5 | I mean I believe it. Okay. I don't know why but it just sounds cool. I have big feet and so I feel like that means that I'm a I'm a Viking. Awesome. Well there's mounting evidence that Vikings had contact with |
| 0:47.1 | the Muslim world and it might make you think about history a little bit differently. |
| 0:50.4 | Hey I'd like to make a quick correction on the next story you're about to hear, and if you're hearing this, then you're hearing a revised version of our original episode. |
| 0:57.5 | We're about to get into some news that Arabic writing was found on Viking burial clothing. |
| 1:02.0 | When this news first broke, it was widely reported on |
| 1:04.9 | by major publishers, including the New York Times, The Guardian, |
| 1:08.0 | and the BBC. |
| 1:09.2 | The story made sense to us because there is abundant |
| 1:11.8 | and uncontested evidence that there was contact |
| 1:14.3 | between 10th century Vikings and the Islamic world. But the particular textile |
| 1:19.2 | fragments mentioned in the story should not be counted among that evidence. |
| 1:23.7 | The viral story of Arabic rating on Viking burial clothes was actually debunked by |
| 1:28.6 | Stephanie Mulder, an associate professor of Islamic art and architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. |
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