Can We Talk?

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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 Descripción en español First released June 11, 2012 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.5	All right, you ready?
0:54.5	Yeah. Okay, let's begin.
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1:01.4	It all rises to the top of the stomach where it's going to be expelled when you
1:05.7	belch.
1:06.2	...chimpanzee's gorillas around his hands also learn human sign language.
1:15.9	Every form of life has a way of sensing the world around it and is able to communicate in some way.
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