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Some wonderful person is collecting all natural Mandarin conversations (comprehensible input and similar) for learners on YouTube from different channels in one playlist.

At the time of writing there are 178 conversations at different levels, from beginner to advanced.

Truly an outstanding learning resource and great if you like me don't have energy to keep up with many different accounts and look out for new channels and you can find something that suits your tastes.

"Arthritis can impact every aspect of your life, but with some adjustments, you can keep doing both the things you need to do and the things you love to do."

This resource is available as an online module (a normal page on the website) or as a downloadable PDF.

Hello everyone! Welcome back. Today, we’re going to learn how to make basic sentences using the copula, です/だ. In our last lesson, we did a super deep dive into the copula– its origins, its functions, and what exactly a “copular construction” is. Now, it’s time to learn about how to actually use those constructions to build basic sentences! If you’re not a linguist (or interested in linguistics),…

I've compiled a list of learning resources on Palestine. These are either resources I have used and found useful, or have been recommended to me by other people. Please check them out and share if it is something you find useful.

The Palestine Academy: https://www.thepalestineacademy.com/ (information and resources for learning what is happening in Palestine and how to support the cause)

The Palestine Directory: https://thepalestinedirectory.carrd.co/ (A directory of links and free-to-access resources from and about Palestine)

Palestine Literature Reading List: Click here. 

My personal book recommendations

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Towers of Ivory and Steel by Maya Wind

Verso free ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/in-solidarity-with-the-students#:~:text=In%20solidarity%20with%20these%20students,also%20still%20available%20for%20free.

More free ebooks on Palestine/Israel: https://x.com/scottlong1980/status/1717757783141949864?s=46&t=0jrq_Y4gCfqf2OSCJc2Czw

Laughing at power: Humor, transgression, and the politics of refusal in Palestine: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654419874368

This is a free access academic paper by Lisa Bhungalia

I read this for a political violence class, in which my professor showed us a photo of a Palestinian student smiling at the camera as he was being arrested. I just think about that photo from time to time. I think that image and this paper have helped lead me to where I am today, writing this

This is the first thing I read about Palestine, and I think it has shaped me that the first thing I read about Palestine focuses not on the oppression of Palestinians, but Palestinian resistance, how they use laughter as a resistance

Resources on Palestine for Anthropologists: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vZm0KXAD8eWHzxZlxcOrqtzEIWH0mRrnXeoJgpE3Ylo/edit?usp=sharing

This is a list of resources compiled by my anthropology professors

The Great Book Robbery Documentary: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdtCrCsKlw0&t=1s

(Documentary on the stealing, destruction, and appropriation of Palestinian books by the Israeli State, and how they twist it to serve the Israeli’s State’s narrative, e.g. how they are ‘saving’ the books by stealing them.)

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Hank Green’s wonderful educational youtube channel, Crash Course, has helped me with countless classes. For easy access, below are all videos on genetics material by Crash Course. These videos are not deep dives, but brief overviews of some main topics.

Main Genetics Videos:

• Hereditary

• DNA Structure and Replication

• DNA, Hot Pockets, and the Longest Word Ever

• Mitosis

• Meiosis

• Natural Selection

• Speciation

• Evolutionary Development

• Population Genetics

Misc. Genetics Videos:

• Changing the Blueprints of Life: Genetic Engineering

• Genetics Lost and Found: History of Science

• Genetics and The Modern Synthesis: History of Science

• How to Engineer Health: Drug Discovery & Delivery

•  Eugenics and Francis Galton: History of Science

• Life and Longevity: History of Science

I hope these are helpful