Hey! I'm David, the creator of this site. The idea for Localingual came to me while I was on a backpacking trip through Europe. Localingual: listen to the voices of the world
I’d like to talk about one of the most important things you can do for learning. It’s scientifically demonstrated to have a huge impact on your memory, attention and energy levels. Yet, tragically, it’s often the first thing many people jettison when they’re preparing for a big test. The Most Powerful Learning Tool (That Doesn't Involve Studying) | Scott H Y
Google recently made a huge announcement that could change the future of work and higher education: It's launching a selection of professional courses that teach candidates how to perform in-demand jobs. Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree | Inc.com
At the start of the week, Liam Porr had only heard of GPT-3. By the end, the college student had used the AI model to produce an entirely fake blog under a fake name. It was meant as a fun experiment. But then one of his posts found its way to the number-one spot on Hacker News. A college kid created a fake, AI-generated blog. It reached #1 on Hacker Ne
Community created roadmaps, articles, resources and journeys to help you choose your path and grow in your career. DevOps Roadmap: Learn to become a DevOps Engineer or SRE
Young children will pass up rewards they know they can collect to explore other options, a new study suggests. Young children would rather explore than get rewards
In the cool, dark hours after midnight on June 20, 2012, Todd Humphreys made the final preparations for his attack on the Global Positioning System. He stood alone in the middle of White Sands Missile Range, in southern New Mexico, sixty miles north of Juárez. How Vulnerable Is G.P.S.? | The New Yorker
It was 6 p.m. on May 25, 1992, and So was among the 70% of Filipinos watching the Channel 2 evening news. Then 23, she was living in a wooden shack beside the tracks with four children under 5. The Inside Story of Pepsi’s Philippines Bottle Contest Fiasco - Bloomberg
Though very less is been talked about women in IT sector, decades ago it was women in the forefronts of computer programming. One of those women was Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, an American Nun. Sister Keller was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1913. Sister Mary Kenneth Keller: The First Woman (And Nun!) To Earn A CS PhD - A
In October, Michael Stay got a weird message on LinkedIn. A total stranger had lost access to his bitcoin private keys—and wanted Stay's help getting his $300,000 back. It wasn't a total surprise that The Guy, as Stay calls him, had found the former Google security engineer. The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old Zip File | WIRED
It has long been thought that the ingredients for life came together slowly, bit by bit. Now there is evidence it all happened at once in a chemical big bang WHEN Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, it was a sterile ball of rock, slammed by meteorites and carpeted with erupting volcanoes. A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began | New Sc
Willie Nelson always gives great interviews, mainly because he is a witty renegade who can't be policed. Jimmy Carter's son confirms he smoked weed on the White House roof with Wil
When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. In fact, I was so wrong, that in one study, the effects of physical attractiveness on judges were so influential, they fined unattractive criminals 304. Physical Attractiveness Bias in the Legal System — The Law Project
Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable. Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other. Home | Laws of UX