I prepared this presentation for a YouTube special I have created titled "Zeitgeist".
Zeitgeist means the defining spirit or mood of a particular period.
In this monthly program, we review what happened in the world during the past month.
In this presentation, I have brought together the significant moments and events of June 2021.
We cover areas including global news, technology, business, innovation, space, culture, TV, and social media.
The program is narrated in Turkish. However, the slides are in English.
The video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw5BAFWs8ps
A similar one I prepared for January 2021 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNzn6n0n6Y
February 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZQK6OVAhxU
March 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5todG0fI4
And April 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SG1832kNM
The video is here: Zeitgeist May 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBiuj7K8FXo
I am sharing it with those of you who are interested in following global events and trends.
Enjoy.
67. There's an entire town under a rock.
sentenil de las bodegas spain
If you've ever been accused of "living under a rock," you'll feel
right at home in Setenil de Las Bodegas in Spain. Many of this
tiny town's 3,000 residents live and work and play in a gorge
beneath a huge rocky outcropping, where homes are built right
into the rock. It provides so much shelter that historians think
this area has been occupied by human settlements since the
Stone Age.
68. A restaurant in New York employs grandmas as chefs.
Old woman, grandma in the kitchen cooking
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It is true that everybody thinks their Italian grandma—or
nonna—is best cook around. So it was a genius idea when Joe
Scaravella decided to gather up as many nonnas as he could to
work in his restaurant in Staten Island. Enoteca Maria combines
the skill of these delightful, talented grandmothers and has
them create and cook recipes from their own family cookbooks.
242. There's a textbook written entirely by an AI author.
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Publishers are always eager to release something unique—and
Springer Nature did just that when they published a textbook
by an author named Beta Writer in 2019. No, that's not a
cheeky pseudonym; it's the name of a machine-learning
algorithm designed by researchers from Goethe University in
Frankfurt, Germany. The book is called Lithium-Ion Batteries: A
Machine-Generated Summary of Current Research. And while
it doesn't sound like the most interesting material, it is "the
first machine-generated research book," according to the
academic publishing company.