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  Humans Have Unbelievable Retained Memories Of Pre-Historic Language

  giantfreakinrobot.com - Jennifer Asencio

  Researchers have found that humans can understand common ape signs and gestures, giving clues to how language evolved.The post Humans Have …

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  Bar Graphs Induce a Hidden Bias in Interpretation, Experiment Shows

  ScienceAlert - Science Alert

  Bar charts and line graphs are both designed to help us visualize data. They are tools to convert numerical information into pictorial narratives …

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  A growing number of non-Māori New Zealanders are embracing learning te reo -- but there's more to it than language

  theconversation.com - Brian Tweed and Pania Te Maro

  As we approach another Waitangi Day, we should be thinking again about what Te Tiriti o Waitangi means. As the late Moana Jackson commented, the …

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  Why We All Need Subtitles Now

  openculture.com - Colin Marshall

  We live in an age of subtitles. On some level this is a vindication of the cinephiles who spent so much of the twentieth century complaining about …

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  The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking

  The Atlantic - Matteo Wong

  Language is commonly understood as the instrument of thought. People “talk it out” and “speak their mind,” follow “trains of thought” or “streams of consciousness.” Some of the pinnacles of human creation—music, geometry, computer programming—are framed as metaphorical languages. The underlying …

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  Jan 30

  Do the Great Apes Share a Common Language? - Archaeology Magazine

  archaeology.org - Jessica Esther Saraceni

  ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND—BBC News reports that human volunteers shown videos of wild chimpanzees and bonobos were able to interpret their gestures …