without shows the geopolitical reality. beyond the board is what makes things the way they are mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube, the thought to the structures. having coleman exactly, there were made of clay for thousands of years. people built the homes from natural materials, found floods, find construction with a sustainable and efficient and it's the right technique for use these buildings can even withstand of quakes. but how you go about making them exactly isn't nearly forgotten of research. as an architect, i know, thinking about the role ancient building techniques could play in the modern world that and other 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 cisco history shows that this type of construction is doable 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 focused on point almost to putting forth on think one important aspect really has to be taken into consideration. you can't access this knowledge simply by substituting the material. it's about a deeper understanding. what are the traditional, indigenous building techniques and what are their strength systems was for the surrounded by fine

and oak forest, the sun easy to real project. the training center is located quite close to the mexican town of glasgow, 150 kilometers from the capital, mexico city. architect alejandro cut by hero and her team or researching ancient building techniques used by the countries indigenous peoples. the indigenous architecture for 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 policy, lima wireless, of what materials are available in the region any that which can be obtained in sustainable ways systems 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, so or as few as possible. we've already reduced to projects,

carbon footprint. the way you have the credible. one big advantage of this method is that it's very climate friendly and buildings constructed using full 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 strong competing, which you see must see that there are a lot of fibers in there that can flex. is the size we have to let and 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. it will just because it has proven itself over many decades over millennia. inside the materials which stand practically every earthquake, diesels, sugar starch and count on has been added to this mud to give it greater plasticity and during ability. the mixture was used as seal ceilings involve,

but naturally smooth surfaces can also be created with the help of lindsay oil, beeswax, and live the natural building materials, cooling 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 air of climate change. the thing was the platform, yes. in therapy. so if i hadn't made the ceiling and mezzanine floor out of strong purse and would i would have had to use cement and steel reinforcing elements. instead i get along with gravel and sam. all those materials have a very big like a logical footprint and are very energy intensive. one of those method, yes, i can use raw materials found in the region in their place and still build a fully functional method name for it and put a piece using local 0 carbon renewable

vol. materials produces the buildings, take a logical 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 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 he drove 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 between a busy time or turned them out and he died ago have come to learn some of what the researchers have to teach the 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, broad 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 and colored, and it's often very hard at home. the heat is suffocating, there's no way to escape it and cool down. but in these houses, it's always very pleasant. when we go, i start it again on my side or in that case and meeting and the way materials are mixed here is completely different than the conventional construction methods, fitness, stone, cement from water and shovel. it's just, it's also completely different in physical terms. if it empty, so when we together,

we are the areas of our history and this way of building also contributes to our identity. it also means 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 we're just somebody in yet 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. nothing and said look, just i see the whole still this, we're committed to ensuring that it universities the field of indigenous construction is taken just as seriously as that of industrialized construction. implicit me why and union left click because it's not currently in required curriculums. there must seem traditional building techniques are always optional the most as gets what we want is for them to be taught on an equal. so don't equal a study on the other. most of the the,

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 modern buildings and develop 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, the quote oh, the long last knowledge might we recover? if we only had the means that you may have formed script 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 control shot to an a. ari is now helping researches put the fragments back together. the cuneiform scripts 1st began to be used around 5000 years ago. it's one of the oldest forms of writing, texts written then to 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 linked and insights, but one reason why is that the texts are very fragmentary, although many tablets are in decent condition. they are in fragments of a see if i come in parish most of the 500000 or 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 attacks which have not been found or identified. yeah, he at both ends and that's where in the k jimenez and his team at the university of munich come in. they've developed a platform that use as part official intelligence to match up even very tiny fragments of tablets in record time. the approach has sparked revolution in the

field, and the past. researchers spent years deciphering and translating countless cuneiform tablets and different museums. discovering missing fragments often came down to lock. you could take decades to reconstruct a single text menu. so like the text 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 in full. and so, 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 it on the to the cost, right? and since 2018, the team in munich has been developing the electronic, babylonian library, or l for a short. it's a kind of search engine for cuneiform tablets, with the help of a i even tiny fragments can be assigned to known texts. and was a lot of excitement here, the v a 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 months, a huge search everywhere, to no avail of think about it and no problem for the computer lima because he hits able to match the text fragment up one to one with others. even though i only entered 5 characters from 5 lines, and you gave them hub after identifying the 5 characters, the e. b, a links to a tablet to a text that's already been deciphered, a job like tail, tonio and mental was able to assign it to that story for the 1st time. the back sides of this section until now had been unreadable for the time of yeah, i know, most importantly we've developed a huge database and lots of algorithms that make searching really easy. so k x now you can reconstruct texts and, and that afternoon that in the past would have taken 40 years to reconstruct

annoying if you take down the custody and contact the 10s of thousands of cuneiform 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 what's inscribed on the in a new project involving the museum, the university, and a very and 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. as long as you want us not tower 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. so i'm then let a, i decide what belongs with what i understand is and try to trace your time 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 point to some initial successes. the moment that i think me think of it at the moment i'm working with an or rocky colleague and my frontier from the university of baghdad on reconstructing a particularly interesting text and just kind of him to the city of babylon to come fix. 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 way. so yeah, so yes, you an advice the best liked would have to natural. she can that you phrase river. my god of the work of new the mood to show the lord

of wisdom you might be connected, irritates the plain floods to read that of course its waters into lagoons. embassy friend, ashley. perhaps with the help of a i. enrica jimenez and his team one day achieve something researchers have been dreaming of since the ancient writing was 1st to cypher. a busy say he's an old dream in my field to be able to read text slight gilligan mash 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 for 5 very much hope we can find new fragments on tackle you that we already know the company, fixed and thinking. 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 the question that's growing increasingly difficult to answer in an age where we can easily access videos 247, 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, a long red dress and black boots. that's enough of a prompt to create a video from text for hell about a photo. realistic video to pirate ships bottling it out inside a coffee cup. to open a i cause it's text, a video generator sora, 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 a logical next step out of what chat g p t and the others are already doings contribute to another from the i chose 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 content in flu shot. 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. job then to kind of do something imaginative takes on life in a glass glow for a petri dish. demonstrate the new ai 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 that don't run into cloud put on your p c at home. so they can't be controlled. already mentioned, this is going to, 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 is really possible and always critically question the source. and as something was just posted on social media, then i would always question that a little concise and to open a eyes. hope is that its text, the 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 car accidents often occur because

the drive is tired and focused or possibly hypoglycemic. low blood sugar is especially dangerous for diabetics. on a pilot app could significantly reduce the risk a crystal step now and his team have developed a warning app for diabetics behind the wheel. the researchers started 4 years ago and now shown that the a i based software works best at clack, or the rest of 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 tests subject to, to the heart. and the whole team to a lot of people were in all the things we had a great price on the shelf, and i call it the researchers took some risks to get their data. some experiments took place in 2021 during the cove at pandemic. the researchers led real diabetics

plunged into a potentially dangerous low blood sugar state while driving the on site and 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, but on. 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's 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 while driving her motivation. and what can we say?

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, and it's more like i'm a bit excited to get the feel for the test. the team is chosen a run of the mill, modern car, because it already has a number of sensors is and the steering wheel and the accelerator pedal. and can those track conspicuous driving behavior an extra camera record time movements? during the experiments linda air taught 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 let's start here to work at if a patient with blood sugar levels of 2 milli 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. so throughout the test subjects, low blood sugar levels become an issue at the next enter section. linda is supposed to turn right, but she misses odds 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 excellent. you also notice that during breaking muscle for all the subjects are no longer driving with a lot of force items, they often have to break harder to stop from them. if it suspects low blood sugar, the warning system can urge driver has to stop half comp time. as you are driving behavior indicates hypoglycemia test,

could you please stop the car and check your blood sugar levels? linda edwards is aware that the situation is serious. annoyed responses like hers can be a typical sign of hypoglycemia. crystal shutters team has since analyzed all the data and 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 with alcohol or drug use medication and other condition. look, i'm going to come on that would have to be tested separately. all categories made zip at all. but as a 1st step, the researchers expect their hypoglycemia detection system to be installed in cars in the near future, the red. why do you have a science question?

then send it to us as a video, text or voice mail. if we on so we can the show you'll receive a little surprise is the thing to go on just task. today's view, a question comes from richard and in terms of the, the do wales sleep when we sent all settings are mammals that have adapted perfectly to life in the water. unlike fish, which half goes 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 mammal species including dolphins only switch off half their brains

when they sleep. the other hemisphere remains awake, reminding them to 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, it is very speed. they sleep horizontally and move constantly directly on the surface that allows them to read in a regular fashion. for all wales, it's important not to sink too far beneath the waves when resting,

which is by 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 a or so both houses of the brain can sleep simultaneously and sperm whales. just like in us humans the that see it. so the show this time around. thanks for joining us and hope to see

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