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Can We Talk?

Can We Talk?

FromBig Picture Science


Can We Talk?

FromBig Picture Science

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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Jun 11, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

You can get your point across in many ways: email, texts, or even face-to-face conversation (does anyone do that anymore?). But ants use chemical messages when organizing their ant buddies for an attack on your kitchen. Meanwhile, your human brain sends messages to other brains without you uttering a word.
Hear these communication stories … how language evolved in the first place… why our brains love a good tale …and how Facebook is keeping native languages from going extinct.
Guests:

Mark Moffett - Entomologist, research associate at the Smithsonian Institution, author of Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
V.S. Ramachandran - Neuroscientist, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego
Clare Murphy - Performance storyteller, Ireland
Mark Pagel - Evolutionary biologist, University of Reading, U.K., and author of Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind
Margaret Noori - Poet and linguist at the University of Michigan, specializing in Ojibwe, and director of the Comprehensive Studies Program

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Released:
Jun 11, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

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