or emphasizing the award winning offer is available worldwide. for every language level. reading gentleman has to go to these 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 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. research as an architect, i know, thinking about the role agent 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 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 it 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 then take 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 most of, what are the traditional indigenous building techniques and what are their strength systems for the,

surrounded by pine and oak forest. the sun, easy through a project training center, is located quite close to the mexican town of sloughs. cole, 150 kilometers from the capital. mexico city architect alejandro. a couple of years ago and her team are 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 as well as in 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 the design that uses the local materials and techniques. there's not the sense we bring a know materials from outside the region, so or as few as possible. we've already reduced to projects, carbon footprint,

the sea, and the way you have 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, compete in which 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 in the structure moves along with that. it is optimal, but it doesn't tear or break. it will just take 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 much to give it greater plasticity and to reveal it or the mixture is used to seal ceilings involve,

but naturally smooth surfaces can also be created with the help of linseed, 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 at a logical footprint and are very energy intensive. one of those method, yes, i can use of 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

volume. materials produces the buildings, pick 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 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 he drilled 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 toned 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, 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 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 started it again on my side, opened that case and meeting and the way materials are next year is completely different than a conventional construction about their own state. yes, stone cement, from water and shovel. it's just, it's also a completely different and physical term for anything. so when we together,

we are the areas of our history. and this way of building also contributes to our identity that getting most of that 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 euro says there's still a lot to do another and it's a new test. 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. that's great because it's not currently in required curriculums. they 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 equalize 30. that as 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. for the other long last knowledge might we recover? if we only had the means that you may have formed, script used in the kingdoms and paws 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 script 1st began to be used around 5000 years ago. it's one of the oldest forms of writing,

texts written then to ne, 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. see it for that seemed that's where in the, the k jiminez and his team at the university of munich come in. they've developed a platform that use as part of the visual intelligence to match up even very tiny fragments of tablets in record time on. the approach of sparked

a 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 tests can be access to basically it's also very easy to find them and reconstruct something, then it on the, to the cost of it. 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 as well. i'm stuck meant

here for you 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 are huge search everywhere to no avail of think about it and no problem for the computer lima. because you have 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 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 in an afternoon that in the past could 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 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. as long as you want us to 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 this and try to trace,

you're tired 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 it might take me thinking at the moment i'm working with an or rocky colleague back on my funds, either from the university of baghdad on reconstructing a particularly interesting text. me, i'm 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 ways. yeah, sure. and if i say it be striped for that, do not you. she can that you fridays river. my god of the work of knew the mood to

shut. the lord of wisdom you might be connected, irritates the plain, floods the read that pours its waters into lagoons and the see friend ashley perhaps with the help of a i and rekey jimenez and his team. well, one day achieve something researchers have been dreaming of since the ancient writing was 1st to cypher a business a. it's an old dream in my field to be able to read texts like yoga mesh from beginning to end without any gaps. and we're missing a lot of fragments to do that. a lot of manuscripts that would complete it. but i very much hope we can find new fragments on tackle you that we already know the content extensions and can 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, 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, the. that's enough of a prompt to create a video from text for help without a photo realistic video to pirate ships. bottling it out inside a coffee cup. to open a i calls it's text, a video generator sora, it can create film clips of all kinds from descriptions you can as soon as it's 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 doing to to be to. and 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 includes 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 to then to kind of do something imaginative, takes on life in a glass glow or 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 higher sizing 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 look.

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 kristof 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 a basic fact 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 test subjects who took heart and the whole team to a lot of people were in law and we had a great price on the shelf and i'd 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 plunge into a potentially dangerous low blood sugar state while driving. the stones fighting 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 for them. 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 i assist with? 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 in the steering wheel and the accelerator pedal. and can those track conspicuous driving behavior an extra camera record time movements? during the experiments, linda airport 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 program. but let's start here to work. 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 both 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 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. the for example, steering wheel movements are sometimes jerky excellent. you'll also notice that during breaking special for all the subjects are no longer driving with a lot of foresight, and 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 test, could you please stop the car and check your blood sugar levels? linda add to it as aware that the situation is serious. annoyed, response is like hers can be a typical sign of hypoglycemia. crystal shutters team has since analyzed all the data and the, the software further, the car industry is already showing interest. it's 5. do think that it's all next, we should check whether it works with other diseases or other forms of diabetes. i'll see, look for the system. also detecting stuff like fatigue with alcohol or drug use of medication and other condition will come into come on that would have to be tested separately. all could use mates it but all but as a 1st step, the researchers expects their hypoglycemia detection system to be installed in cars in the near future. the why do you have

a science question then send it to us as a video, text or voice mail. if we, on the reason 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 sent all sends are mammals that have adapted perfectly to life. and the water on like fish, which have goals, whales, and dolphins breeze with loans 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 gallstones 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 at a city 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 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 call them. 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 house of the brain can sleep simultaneously and sperm whales. just like in us humans the

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