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Vsauce Breaks Down The Problems Of Naming Everything In Our World

Adults Language
A misnomer is a word or term that suggests a meaning that is known to be wrong. Misnomers often arise because the thing named received its name long before its true nature was known. A misnomer may also be simply a word that is used incorrectly or misleadingly.

The language of lying

Adults Language
We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we've spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved unreliable. Is there a more direct approach? Noah Zandan uses some famous examples of lying to illustrate how we might use communications science to analyze the lies themselves.

Can You Trust Your Ears?

Adults Language
Should you believe your ears and the things they hear?

This Bird Can Speak Japanese Better Than You

Adults Language
I can't help but feel there's actually a tiny Japanese woman trapped inside that myna bird.

Husky Says No to Kennel

Adults Language
Talking 11 month old husky, 'Blaze' from New Hampshire, prefers his freedom and says "No" to his kennel (with annotations)