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What is surveillance pricing and is it coming to your grocery store?



Ethan Klein accidentally revealed that Hasan is the only account he follows on Twitch






The bouba-kiki effect is the mental association speakers have between certain sounds and certain shapes. It stems from a famous 2001 experiment by linguists V.S. Ramachandran & Edward Hubbard, replicating an earlier 1924 experiment by psychologist Dimitri Uznadze, in which participants were presented with pairs of random shapes and nonsense word and asked to associate each nonsense word with a shape. For the kiki vs. bouba pair, over 95% of speakers of both English and Tamil selected the spiky shape as “kiki” and the curvy shape as “bouba”. This important study continues to foster new research as linguists seek to understand to what extent word-meaning pairings are random vs. sound-symbolic. #kiki #bouba #linguistics #language #psychology #physics @xkcd









