9min 43sec clip - Everyday Terms You Didn't Realize Were From The Military

All Common Misconceptions Explained in 5 Minutes

5min 18sec @TEDEd clip - What do all #languages have in common? - Cameron Morin

text from youtube "Dig into Noam Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar and decide: are there universal grammar rules and are they hardwired into our brains?


Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in our native language, and we’re able to do so from an early age— almost as soon as we start to communicate in sentences. How is this possible? In the early 1950s, Noam Chomsky proposed a theory that the key to this versatility was grammar. Cameron Morin details Chomsky's theory of universal grammar.

Lesson by Cameron Morin, directed by Eoin Duffy."

brill 15min 12sec clip by @willschoder - every story is the same - based on joseph campbells

"the hero's journey"

a simplification of this by Dan Harmon into a story circle with 8 steps which are universal for any story in any medium

to understand the theory behind the circle ... 1st imagine it with a horizontal line across its midpoint
- the top of the circle represents where the characters journey starts and finishes (the ordinary world)
- the bottom represents the world that needs to be traversed in order to grow (the special world)
- a ritual of descent and return

- and every story has a rhythm of balance Dan lays out in three dualities

so here are the 8 steps

the video uses the examples of the Die Hard and Star Wars films to illustrate the various steps

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