we can't risk losing any tire generation of children to death, fear despair. because they are the future of serious the thought to the structures having coleman exactly that will made of clay for thousands of years. people built the homes from natural materials found floods, find construction with it, sustainable and efficient and is the right technique for use. these buildings can even withstand of quakes. but how you go about making them exactly as a nearly forgotten research. as an architect, i know, thinking about the role agent building techniques could play in the modern world that and all the efforts to decipher the secrets of antiquity on dw sign show. welcome to tomorrow. today claim

straw kind of wood. the basic materials used to build what's often called indigenous architecture, like the other because the history shows that this type of construction is durable and conserves resources. there are many very old earth and buildings still standing today that have withstood earthquakes and hurricanes. concrete has only been around for a 150 years and it fails time. and again, good stuff again, the how can the old building techniques be revived? i could look at some point the most important for them to take one important aspect . you know, the house that i've taken into consideration. you can't access this knowledge simply by substituting the material. it's about a deeper understanding of what are the traditional, indigenous building techniques and what are their strength system to support. ringback surrounded by pine and oak

forest, sun easy to real project, the training center is located quite close to the mexican town of sloughs. call 150 kilometers from the capital of mexico city architect alejandro. a company here. a winter team or researching ancient building techniques used by the countries indigenous peoples. the indigenous architecture or bio architecture, is sustainable and closely linked to the environment and nature here. lay there is a part. the 1st step is to analyze the local climate. listen, lima wireless. what materials are available in the region any that which can be obtained in sustainable ways? system w? yeah, then you start to think about a design that uses the local materials and techniques. there's not a sense we bring a no materials from outside the region or as few as possible. we've already reduced

the projects, carbon footprint in the credible. one big advantage of this method is that it's very climate friendly and buildings constructed using old techniques. also with stan, natural disasters like earthquakes very well. that's down to the materials that they largely consist of playing and cooling fibers or straw, come up, you know, what you see must see that there are a lot of fibers in there that can flex. is the size we have that makes and building more cars. quake proof though is still the same way when the ground moves everything and the structure moves along with that. it is optimal, but it doesn't tear or break. they boots us because i think has proven itself over many decades over millennia inside telling us taking the materials with stand practically every earthquake, diesels, sugar starch and count on has been added to this month to give it greater plasticity and to reveal it. the mixture is used to seal ceilings and rolls,

but naturally smooth surfaces can also be created with the help of linseed, oil, beeswax, and live the natural building materials the rooms and improve the indoor climate. passive heating and cooling systems can also be installed, providing a sustainable solution to extreme temperature fluctuations in an area of climate change. nothing was the platform, yes. in therapy. so if i hadn't made the ceiling and mezzanine floor out of strong hers and would, i would have had to use cement and steel reinforcing elements. instead, i get along with gravel and sad. all those materials have a very big, logical footprint and are very energy intensive. ringback method yes, i can use raw materials found in the region in their place will and still build a fully functional method name floor. let's get into the pieces using local 0 carbon renewables on materials produces the buildings. ecological

footprint theme is to live in harmony with nature rather than destroying it. so obviously those we want to preserve ancient knowledge that has been passed down that we've inherited from indigenous or traditional groups. ensuring that this knowledge is not the last, but rather is passed on from one generation to the next year. that's a way of honoring them. you know, that's why the sand is the drill. project team also gives courses on a range of old construction techniques, as well as providing information on their origins and advantages. today, students from being 20 busy time or turn them uh and he died ago have come to learn some of what the researchers have to teach the fits lots of

fun, but also involves plenty of hand and foot work. in the intensive workshop, the students learn how to work with the local wrong materials and practical ways. they're also taught about the philosophy of indigenous architecture and how the projects, master builders, try to work with nature instead of subjugating in the future. urban planners are enthusiastic about what they experience. any garden, it's often very hard at home. the heat is suffocating. there's no way to escape it and cooled down. but in these houses, it's always very pleasant. when we go, i start it okay on my side. open it. okay. the meeting and the way materials are next to your is completely different than a conventional construction methods, fitness, stone, cement, water and shovel. it's just, it's also a completely different and physical term, mostly for anything. so when we together,

we are the areas of our history. and this way of building also contributes to our identity as getting us. i mean, it's not just about bio diversity. they really what we're doing something different and to a certain extent that makes us different, if it shows who we are, but i'm just, i mean, you had another reason why the son is either a project team. wanted to ensure that this knowledge which has been passed down is not lost, but architect alejandro. cut by 0 says there's still a lot to do. who know the said, look, just i see those who still this. we're committed to ensuring that at universities, the field of indigenous construction is taken just as seriously as that of industrialized construction implicit lot and getting less greek because it's not currently in required curriculums. they must seem traditional building techniques are always optional and most as gets what we want is for them to be taught on an equal soda equal life 30 on the other, most of the project team is working together to ensure that the knowledge of

indigenous master builders is preserved, the long term goal to integrate it into ma, turn buildings and develops innovative and more sustainable construction methods. because traditional ways of doing things offer answers to many of today's challenges, especially when it comes to climate change. what other loan last knowledge might we recover? if we only have the means that you may have formed, scripts used in the kingdoms and implies of ancient mesopotamia was 1st deciphered back in the mid 19th century, put many clay tablets. it was written on hoping for a couple shots. it is now helping researches put the fragments back together. the cuneiform script 1st began to be used around 5000 years ago. it's one of the oldest forms of writing, text written and you need

a form on clay tablets range from simple receipts to the epic of gilgamesh, an ancient series of poems. even today, only around 2 thirds of all discovered tablets have been deciphered. this is linked, i'm insights, but one reason why is that the texts are very fragmentary. some of the many tablets are in decent condition. they are in fragments of a see if i come in parish most of the $500000.00. so clay tablets around the world were broken before or during excavations and the sites look so they also haven't been deciphered because many fragments of the taxes have not been found or identified. you see it further and that's where in the ek jimenez and his team at the university of munich come in. they've developed a platform that used as part of visual intelligence to match up even very tiny fragments have tablets in record time. the approach has sparked

a revolution in the field. in the past, researchers spent years deciphering and translating countless cuneiform tablets in different museums. discovering missing fragments often came down to lock. you could take decades to reconstruct a single text menu. so like that would been fixed when it took so long to reconstruct a text, it could mean that a researcher might die without having published the text or reading it and fall into. yeah, fortunately, that's no longer the case. the for now all the existing text as can be access to basically it's also very easy to find them and reconstruct something. then on the to the customer item since 2018, the team in munich has been developing the electronic, babylonian library, or l for short. it's a kind of search engine for to ne, a form tablets with the help of a i even tiny fragments can be assigned to known texts as well. i'm stuck meant here via in the past, we wouldn't have stood a chance with

a fragment like this been because when there's so little on it, there's really nothing you can do with analog tools. some of those funds are huge. search everywhere to know, fail of fitting, but it's no problem for the computer lean. once he gets able to match the text fragment up one to one with others. even though i only entered 5 characters from 5 lines, i gave them hub. after identifying the 5 characters, the e. b, l links the tablet to a text that's already been deciphered, a job like tail, tonio, meto was able to assign it to that story for the 1st time, the back sides of this section until now had been unreadable for it. i mean, kind of, yeah, i know, most importantly we've developed a huge database and lots of algorithms that make searching really easy. so it's now you can reconstruct texts and an afternoon that in the past could have taken 40

years to reconstruct new. if you take down to custody and contact the 10s of thousands of to near phone tablets from museums all over the world, have now been published on the e b l platform for the 1st time and made publicly accessible. but there are many more housed in the rock museum in baghdad, and little is known about watson scribe done. in a new project involving the museum, the university, and of a very, an academy of sciences and humanities, the tablets in iraq will be added to the database. in the future, hey, i will be able to decipher and translate tablets all on its own. i was wondering, does you want us to tell or vision is fully automated processing, which means that ideally you'd only have to enter a single photo and for a series of them into the system and then let a i decide what belongs with what i understand is and try to trace the tire to go

home to do that the a i would have to learn the language. so it could also look at how pieces fit together in terms of the content. building a logical continuation line by line of what's on other pieces up. this is still early days for the project, which is set to run for a total of 25 years. but the team can already pointed to some initial successes, the moment that it might take me thinking at the moment i'm working with an or rocky colleague on my side to hear from the university of baghdad on reconstructing a particularly interesting text. me, i'm just kind of him to the city of that along the conflicts and now we can at least read this tags that scholars and babel lonia knew by heart one that describes life there in a very beautiful ways. yeah. so yes you and if i say it be striped for that, do not have to. she cannot euphrates river, my god of the work of new the mood to shut the lord of wisdom you must be connected,

irritates the plain floods. the re beds pours its waters into lagoons, embassy from ashton. perhaps with the help of a guide and rekey jimenez and his team one day achieved something researchers have been dreaming of since the ancient writing was 1st deciphered. business a yes or no dream and my feel to be able to read text slight gilgamesh from beginning to end without any gaps. we're missing a lot of fragments to do that. a lot of manuscripts that would complete it is 6 to 5 very much hope we can find new fragments on tackle you that we already know the content extensions and couldn't. and so hopefully the coming decades will teach us much more about the origins of writing and literature in mesopotamia. the land between the euphrates and tigris rivers.

now for question that's growing increasingly difficult to answer in an age where we can easily access videos 247 and all the images i'm seeing real where they created by a i the technology is racing ahead. you can already generate deceptively realistic videos with just a few words. she's wearing a black leather jacket alone, red dress and black blue. that's enough of a prompt to create a video from text for how without a photo realistic video to pirate ships bottling it out inside a coffee cup. open a i calls it's text, a video generator sore. it can create film clips of all kinds from descriptions. you can have a ton of hits the next step after text and image generation just said, now images are strung together to create videos. it looks i'm new to us,

but it's just the logical next step out of what chat g p t and the others are already doings to. to be to another from the i tools can put words into german chancellor as mouse some apps alter existing footage. however, sora generates entirely new worlds by combining what it's learned from millions of videos coming more and more realistic. and if you can't tell the difference anymore, then you have to come up with regulations for marketing such context influence all you have to make it clear to the viewer when something is not real, but only inspired by reality. and if legislators don't intervene, we won't find solutions just then to kind of do something imaginative takes on life in a glass glow or a petri dish demonstrate the new a i capabilities. and so now making videos like this required

a large creative team and deep pockets. now it's not hard to artificially generate real looking videos. they can be created with freely accessible programs. so don't run in the cloud, but on your p. c at home. so they can't be controlled already mentioned isn't going . so i think people need to learn to be more aware when they watch the video materials. even if it looks real, you always have to ask yourself whether what you're seeing isn't really possible and always critically question the source soon as something was just posted on social media, then i would always questionnaire a little, have good size and open a eyes. hope is that it's text, a video generator will be a hit. after an initial test phase, sora will also be sold on subscription. and the more the subscriber pays, the more realistic their videos will, the colorado accidents often

occurred because the drive is tired and focused or positively hypoglycemic. low blood sugar is especially dangerous for diabetics. on a pilot app could significantly reduce the risk a crystal step and his team have developed a warning app for diabetics behind the wheel. the researchers started 4 years ago and up now shown that the a i based software works up as a crack or the dresser. it was really nice to get confirmation that the idea was sound. that's great when you've invested so much time to for all the test subjects who took heart and the whole team to a lot of people were in law and we had a great pride to show for the cards. the researchers took some risks to get their data. some experiments took place in 2021. during the cobit pandemic,

the researchers led real diabetics plunge into a potentially dangerous low blood sugar state while driving the on site reaction times are slower and limited to the field of vision can be restricted. you start to sweat and that's dangerous. it can lead to accidents, so that's why the data isn't collected on public roads. but here had an army pace headquarters has been converted into a medical lab with the cars back see to kind of mobile and medical practice. one of 30 tests subject to is linda and to, to has type one diabetes. the final preparations are under way she set to receive a dose of insulin via accounts that are in her for arm. the aim is to cause her to go into hypoglycemia colloquially called hypo wild driving her motivation

and what conversation i wanted to know what it's like to drive a car with a height of what it feels like. i'm not really feeling very scared to be honest. it's more like i'm a bit excited, so it's good to feel straight forward. the test team is chosen a run of the mill, modern car, because it already has a number of sense is in the steering wheel and the accelerator pedal. again, those track, conspicuous driving behavior, an extra camera record time movements. during the experiment, linda adult is confronted with a wide range of driving scenarios. she's also regularly injected with insulin, sending her blood sugar levels into a kind of controlled tails. for safety reasons, a driving instructor sits next to are ready to intervene in an emergency room, but it's the work if a patient with blood sugar levels of 2000000 moles,

which is low drives through here at 80 to 90 kilometers an hour, that's pretty impressive. and it's never been done before. both drugs, the test subjects, low blood sugar levels, become an issue at the next intersection. linda is supposed to turn right, but she misses it and ends up having to turn around again. this is the turn because her reaction time is impaired and thanks to the sensors in the car, the effects of hypoglycemia are clearly visible in the command center combustion does. in the for example, the steering wheel movements are sometimes jerky x. and you'll also notice that during breaking off of all the subjects are no longer driving with a lot of force items, they often have to break harder to stock on them. if it suspects low blood sugar, the warning system can urge drivers to stop half comp time as you are driving behavior indicates hypoglycemia. could you please stop the car and check your blood

sugar levels? job a linda add to it as a way or that the situation is serious. annoyed. response is like hers can be a typical sign of hypoglycemia. coastal shelters team has sense, analyzed all the data and develop the software further. the car industry is already showing interest. it's 5, do think that is all next we should check whether it works with other diseases or other forms of diabetes. also you look for the system. also detecting stuff like fatigue and with alcohol or drug use medication and other condition will come into come on that would have to be tested separately all for the interest rates. but all but as a 1st step, the researchers expect their hypoglycemia detection system to be installed and cars in the near future the let is read. why do you have a science question then send it to us as a video,

text or voice mail. if we on the read in the show, you receive a little surprises a thank you. go on just task. today's view, a question comes from richard m in terms of the, the do wales sleep sent off ends are mammals that have adapted perfectly to life. and the water on like fish, which have goals, whales, and dolphins breeze with lungs like we do. so they have to surface regularly to tank up on air. when the animals breach like this, every breath has to be coordinated with their movements for this and other reasons . wales and other cetaceans have developed sophisticated sleep techniques. many marine mammals species including dolphins only switch off half their brains

when they sleep. the other hemisphere remains awake from mine and then sec come up for air at regular intervals. they also keep only one eye open. usually it's the one that's opposite the awake half of the brain. researchers have discovered that the animals have a resting phase thanks to this half sleep, even when they remain active, or not all citations sleep in the same ways. there are major differences in terms of duration and position. pods of pilot whales, for example, migrate to the water at a city speed. they sleep horizontally and move constantly directly on the surface that allows them to read and a regular fashion. for all wales, it's important not to sink too far beneath the waves when resting,

which is why some sleep suspended vertically in the water. call them close to the surface. that makes it easier for them to come up for air. the humpback whales have even been observed suspended, head down in the water. they can sleep in that position for up to half an hour at a time. sperm whales are also known for slumbering in the water column. they arrange themselves heads up vertically in groups just beneath the surface and have a kind of internal alarm that insures they'll surface before they run out of air. so both hands of the brain can sleep simultaneously in sperm whales. just like in us humans the that's the solution this time around. thanks for joining us and hope to see you

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