Ep 44: Science... sort of - Dinosaur Language

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2010

⏱️ 99 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

00:00:00 - The Paleopals are joined by Ryan North, a computational linguist and creator of Dinosaur Comics (as well as a Canadian). The Americans have beers and the Canadians have other stuff, some more interesting than beer, and some less so.

00:08:45 - Ryan North talks to us about computers using linguists and helps us sort out articles involving computers (supposedly) cracking indecipherable dead languages and how and why to save languages that are going extinct.

01:11:23 - Northern Ryan joins the usual suspects for Trailer Trash Talk. We attack Piranha 3D, with surprising results. We trade more stock than usual, find out if it's long, short, or both.

01:24:23 - We check in with Ryan at The Amazing Meeting in Vegas and plug our live recording at Cal Academy Nightlife on July 15th. Then, we settle in on what is really important, you (talking about or to us). Ben reads a classic review which sparks a Roman history duel between Ryan and Ben.

Music:

Wavin' Flag - K'Naan

I Fought Piranhas (Album Version) - The White Stripes

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Science Sort of.
0:13.9	Hello and welcome to Science Sort of Episode 44. I'm your host Ryan and joining me as always to discuss the things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science are the paleo pals Patrick.
0:28.6	How glad are you that Futurama is back?
0:31.0	I haven't had a chance to watch any of it yet.
0:33.6	But I'm, you're glad, trust me.
0:35.3	Oh, I'm glad.
0:36.0	I've heard it's been good, though.
0:40.9	That's pretty, I mean, it's not the best of the best, but I'm just, I'll take anything at this point.
0:41.7	True.
0:42.2	And I don't know if they get Futurama in Canada, but joining us is Ben.
0:46.7	Hello, we have the internet in Canada, too.
0:49.1	So, yes, we get everything.
0:52.0	Okay, cool. And special guest star this week is Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics and Computational Linguist Fame.
1:02.4	Hello.
1:03.9	We like to start off each show with the all-important question of what are we drinking.
1:08.5	So in order of, as I introduced let's let's toss it out to
1:12.0	patrick okay uh well i'm drinking nothing that's too hard to find this week i'm drinking sam
1:19.0	adam's summer ale a wheat ale brewed with lemon zest and grains of paradise how do you like that
1:24.6	um so it's sort of the usual summary brew kind of thing not too
1:30.0	bad i like it it'll do all right that sounds pretty tasty and uh ben you gave us a quick
1:37.7	prelude to what you were drinking before why don't you lay it on us again all right world so i
1:42.7	was in the local um exotic food and bulk bin store up at the top of the hill where you get all your good ingredients.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brachiolope, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Brachiolope and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.