Charles Darwin: Secret Emo

Bhain mé sont as an alt seo! Ta Darwin i gcosúil le deagóir dúr cantalach. Iontach greannmhar.

I was sent a link to this article by Robert Krulwich:

CHARLES DARWIN AND THE TERRIBLE HORRIBLE NO GOOD VERY BAD DAY

It's amazing, I thought I had to share it!

What in the world!?

    I recently discovered that our current system of cartography completely distorts the size of countries.
When we look at the map and judge countries upon their size we are most likely wrong.
Here is the map we are all familiar with:

Here is the Gall-Peters map in which all countries are portrayed with appropriate size relations to each other:

Tá difríocht sontasach idir na dhá mapaí seo. Tá an leathsféar Thuaidh i bhfad níos mó den leathsféar Theas.  Amharc ar an difríocht is mó!:

Is Mapa iontach conspoide é mapa Gall-Peters, agus caithimid a bí ag smaoineadh ar an fath a cuirtear faoi chois é. Déan cíoradh ar an Aifric?! 

Could there be a political reason behind the suppression of this 'more accurate' map?
Or is This map indeed more accurate?

Comments welcome.
Beannachtaí,
Gallobhaí.

Acoustic Levitator

    This is another curious video I came across! Its pretty amazing though!
I'll have some proper posts up once I get the graphics and write ups finished for the blog
Anyways,
Enjoy!

   Tá séo dochreite!! Tá mé i gconaí ag obair ar na gneithe bunúasach an bhlog séo beidh phostanna níos arbarthach agam i dtamaillín.
Beannachtaí,
Gallobhaí.

Ainu Language, Possible Similarities?

    Léis na físeanna séo tá mé ag iarraidh na cosúlachta idir na teangaí proto-ceilteach agus an teanga Ainu a fiosrú da bhrí raiteas diamhar go raibh gaol idir na teangaí. Is chultúr seanda oileánach é chultúr na hAinu agus ag, an am séo, níl aon gaol ar bith idir an teanga Ainu agus teanga ar bith eile.
    Eist leis an bhlás ar an fís 'Ainu' seo, bfheidir go bhfuil eolach ar?
 

    Here's a little linguistic curiosity for all you familiar with the Irish language. The Ainu, or the 'hairy Ainu', are an ancient insular indigenous race inhabiting the northern islands of Japan. Ainu has no accepted genealogical relationship to any other language family, yet, I just heard an off-hand remark about how their language was unique to the area but seemed to share a lot in common with proto-celtic languages. That would be a head-scratcher as they are an ancient people on the other side of the globe!
    I'm not sure how true this is as the researcher gave no reference for this particular talking point but have a listen see if you can hear a 'blás':

 

Gaeilge

 

Ainu (skip to 0:30)