Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
At the University of California San Diego, there's the Shake Table: an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in the world. β More about the table: https://nheri.ucsd.edu/ and the building: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/
With thanks to everyone at UCSD, including Shiling Pei and Ioana Patringenaru
Camera: Mark Liu and David Baillot
Editor: Michelle Martin youtube.com/@OnTheCrux
π₯ MORE FROM TOM: tomscott.com
(you can find contact details and social links there too)
β LATERAL, free weekly podcast: lateralcast.com youtube.com/lateralcast
π₯ THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: youtube.com/techdif
At the University of California San Diego, there's the Shake Table: an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in the world. β More about the table: https://nheri.ucsd.edu/ and the building: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/
With thanks to everyone at UCSD, including Shiling Pei and Ioana Patringenaru
Camera: Mark Liu and David Baillot
Editor: Michelle Martin youtube.com/@OnTheCrux
π₯ MORE FROM TOM: tomscott.com
(you can find contact details and social links there too)
β LATERAL, free weekly podcast: lateralcast.com youtube.com/lateralcast
π₯ THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: youtube.com/techdif

![How languages steal words from each other
This is the only pirate reference youre getting from me. β’
Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchens podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/684727483493384192/episode-68-tea-and-skyscrapers-when-words-get β’
More Language Files: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLDEnHuhD7CTZES3KXFnwm0
Gretchens book BECAUSE INTERNET, all about the evolution of internet language, is available:
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(Those are affiliate links that give a commission to me or Gretchen, depending on country!)
Graphics by Willow Marler: https://wmad.co.uk
Audio mix by Graham Haerther and Manuel Simon at Standard Studios: https://haerther.net
REFERENCES:
[etymologies from OED and M-W]
Sanchez, T. (2005). Constraints on structural borrowing in a multilingual contact situation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. ScholarlyCommons.
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=ircs_reports
John Hewson. 1993. A computer-generated dictionary of proto-Algonquian. Gatineau β Quebec : National Museums of Canada. https://protoalgonquian.atlas-ling.ca/
π₯ MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/
(you can find contact details and social links there too)
β LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ https://youtube.com/lateralcast/
π₯ THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: https://youtube.com/techdif How languages steal words from each other](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TFpzps-DCb0/mqdefault.jpg)








