Also, know how to pronounce "primer" properly....
Hint: Skip ahead to minute two.
Omega looks like something I once saw on a button on a toilet in Japan.
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Gorgeous Spitzer Space Telescope Image of Ω Centauri
"It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light." -Benjamin Disraeli
I really don't understand how Olympic athletes deal with the grief of losing by 1/100th of a second. That's an incomprehensible amount of time and yet it's the defining difference in the biggest event of their lives.
Over at Tor.com, Kate has begun a chapter-by-chapter re-read of The Hobbit, and has some thoughts on Chapter 1.
As a Classics professor who teaches classical Greek and Latin, thank you!
This is painful to listen to! I learned the Greek alphabet from a Greek. The pronunciations are utterly different.
Besides, my teacher was gorgeous, and with a voice like honey...
ack! Had to stop before minute 4...
Yeah everyone SHOULD learn the American pronunciations, but the Greek pronunciations really are spectacularly different!
For example "beta" is more like "veeta" when pronounced correctly! "Pi" is "pee". And "delta" is more like "thelta", but the th is soft.
Still this is useful for people doing math and science, not people learning greek :)