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Week 14 Lab- Mythology Crash Course

For this week's storylab, I decided to write some notes on the Crash Course videos over mythology. I thought this would be a fun wrap-up after completing the entire class this semester; a crash course would help me to make sure I understand how everything is intertwined, as well as remember some things from early on in the semester. I watch Crash Courses for my science classes and they have always helped me, and so I was very expectant that I would learn a lot (I was not let down)! In the first video, I liked how he considered mythology a "slurrpie of knowledge." I think this is super accurate! They did a great job of explaining a myth as a story instead of as facts. Although some myths may have factual parts, there are so many renditions that it is hard to consider all of one myth a fact.  The second video was very different from the first because it talked much more about the actual theories of mythology. In our class, I didn't feel that we spent much time on t...

Week 10 Lab- TedEd Videos about Language

I have always been a language geek, all thanks to my mom. She was a journalism major in college, and so she always instilled in me the importance of using proper grammar. I find that I can hear incorrect grammar a lot easier than I can see it, and so I have to read things aloud often as I edit them. I thought it would be really fun to watch the different Ted Talk videos about language because of the little tips and tricks I might be able to learn. My favorite of the videos was "Where do new words come from?" by Marcel Danesi. I guess I had never considered how new words came to be, but it was fascinating to me! I have always wanted to come up with a new word, and I felt think this video sort of taught me how! Here are some notes that I took while I watched the video: there are over 170,000 words in the English language (wow!!) words can come from a multitude of different origins  I always thought people just came up with random words and some committee approved of them...