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Jargon-tastic

whatwouldvirginiado wrote 1 week ago: It’s a popular thing to hate, but what can I say? I just don’t have the time to be inter … more »

Tags: cat, future proof, Jargon, sunsetting

Brain Science Podcast #39: Michael Arbib on Mirror Neurons

docartemis wrote 3 weeks ago: Episode 39 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Michael Arbib from the University … more »

Tags: Brain Science Podcast, Brain Science, Ginger Campbell, Podcast, brain, Neuroscience, Mirror Neurons, Michael Arbib

Brain Science Podcast #39: Michael Arbib on Mirror Neurons

docartemis wrote 3 weeks ago: Episode 39 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Michael Arbib from the University … more »

Tags: Brain Science, interviews, Neuroscience, Podcast Show Notes, brain, Brain Science Podcast, Computational Neuroscience, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Ginger Campbell

Science covers some news from this year's meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 months ago: In brief, Science has published three news pieces that you maybe interested. They are all reports of … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Human Evolution, neandertal, tuberculosis, Paleodiet, AAPA

more slang3 comments

Tiffany wrote 3 months ago: It’s rather odd that we had such a hard time coming up with interesting slang words in class t … more »

Tags: slang, peeps

Improvisation in Music is Independent of Central Brain Functions2 comments

Alex Greengaard wrote 4 months ago: Charles Limb and Allen Braun at Johns Hopkins have recently published a study on the internal charac … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Blog, Physical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, brain, Music, jazz, Neuroscience

BrainConnection: A Website from the creators of FastForward™

docartemis wrote 4 months ago: I get a monthly newsletter from BrainConnection, which is an educational website managed by Scientif … more »

Tags: Brain Science, Other Links, BrainConnection

Brain Science Podcast #30: The Evolution of Language8 comments

docartemis wrote 4 months ago: Episode 30 of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of The First Word: The Search fo … more »

Tags: Neuroscience, Podcast Show Notes, Brain Science Podcast, Neuroscience, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language, Christine Kenneally, evolutionary linguistics, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker

New languages evolve in rapid bursts1 comment

Ed Yong wrote 5 months ago: The birth of new languages is accompanied by a burst of rapid evolution consisting of large changes … more »

Tags: Evolution, language, Linguistics, Punctuated equilibrium

Punctuated Equilibrium drives Language Evolution3 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 5 months ago: Fellow blogger, Simon Greenhill of HENRY, and co-authors published a cool paper evaluating language … more »

Tags: Linguistic Anthropology, Blog, language, Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Punctuated equilibrium, Phylogenetics

FOXP2 and possible Neanderthal language (or not)

Babel wrote 6 months ago: BBC Radio 4: “Carles Lalueza-Fox at Barcelona University has recently published a paper abou … more »

Tags: General linguistics, FOXP2, Anthropology, human, Neanderthals

Nose Bleed6 comments

Homar Murillo wrote 6 months ago: PLS…READ 12/19/07 To All PE 3 Students under Mr.__________ is announcing that there is no e … more »

Tags: pidgin english, pinoy english, Grammatical Errors, Humor

The Communications Factors: I'm Back With More Info!

onthemarkwriting wrote 8 months ago: Taking this week off from blogging, I was busy writing and editing a manuscript which we hope to ha … more »

Tags: The Communications Factors, language, technology, ease of communication

Neandertals have the same mutations in FOXP2, the language gene, as modern humans13 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 8 months ago: FOXP2 is thought to be a language gene. It is highly conserved in most mammals but in humans there a … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Human Evolution, language, Linguistics, neandertal, Genetics, FOXP2, neandertal genomics

On the Evolution of Language1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 8 months ago: Both Nature and PNAS have put out two fascinating papers on the evolution of language. Nature’ … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Blog, Human Evolution, Evolution, Linguistics, Y-chromosome, English, sumba


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