iBilib: How can one word show two names?!

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Aired (April 12, 2026): It looks like one word but there's more to it! Learn the secret behind ambigrams and how they can reveal two names at once.

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00:00Shira, Mik-Mik, my believers,

00:02tingnan nyo ito mabuti.

00:03Anong nakasulat?

00:07Parang Shira yung nakasulat dyan.

00:09Oo, ano? Pangalan ko.

00:11Shira, Shira, Mik-Mik, ano nakasulat?

00:14Ano nakikita mo? Parang Shira, no?

00:16Shira.

00:17Shira. Okay, tama, tama, tama.

00:19Okay, ngayon naman.

00:21Anong nakasulat?

00:23Aba, parang pangalan ko po yan ah.

00:26Mik-Mik.

00:27Oo, Mik-Mik.

00:30Shira, ano yun, Mik-Mik ba?

00:31Mik-Mik na.

00:32Ibelievers, kita nyo, Mik-Mik.

00:34Ang tawag dito ay Ambigram.

00:38Ambigram.

00:39At isa lang ito sa mga ginawa ng ipapakaila kong author sa inyo.

00:43Alright?

00:44Kilalanin natin siya, ha?

00:45Dito sa...

00:46Rethink!

00:48It's time para kilalanin natin ang ating Rethinker for today, Ibelievers.

00:53Woohoo!

00:54Sila yung isa sa mga nagpauso ng mga sikat

00:56at nakakagulat na tricks at illusions.

00:59Peter.

01:00Newell.

01:00Isa ng modern-day re-thinkers.

01:02Isa siyang American artist, illustrator at writer.

01:05Ipinanganak siya noong March 5, 1862

01:07at nakatira noon sa McDonough County, doon sa Illinois.

01:12Noong 1880s hanggang 1890s,

01:14nagtrabaho siya bilang illustrator at writer.

01:17Sumikat siya dahil sa kanyang nakakatahong drawing

01:19at mga tula na lumabas sa maraming publications noon.

01:23Ilan sa mga yun ay ang Harper's Weekly,

01:25Harper's Bazaar,

01:27Scribner's Magazine,

01:28at marami pang iba.

01:301893,

01:31nang simulan ni Newell yung children's book niya na Top Seas Service,

01:36sumikat ang children's book na ito dahil meron itong pictures na may kasamang tula

01:40na pwedeng basahin kahit nakabaliktad yung libro.

01:43Dito na makikita ang mga unang examples ng ambigram.

01:47Mga words na kahit baliktarin mo ay may nababasa pa rin yung salita.

01:51Pwedeng same word o pwedeng iba.

01:531908 nang ipublish ni Newell ang The Whole Book.

01:57Literal na may butas yung gitna ng libro at yung butas na yun parte ng illustration.

02:02Bawat page merong butas.

02:041910 naman nang gawin niyan ang The Slant Book.

02:08Hugis rhomboid yung libro na yun.

02:10Kakaiba!

02:11Dahil doon, naka-ilusyon na may inclined plane sa bawat page ng libro

02:16na tungkol sa stroller na gumugulong pababa ng burol.

02:20Ay!

iBilib: How can one word show two names?!

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