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Flash Forward

Dr. Doolittle

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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~~~~ TAKE THE SURVEY! (Please) ~~~~ Today we tackle the age-old question: what if animals could talk? Or, more precisely, what if we could actually understand what animals are saying? Guests: Con Slobodchikoff, professor at Northern Arizona University, CEO of Zoolingua, and author of Chasing Dr. Doolittle: Learning the Language of Animals. Irene Pepperberg, professor of psychology Harvard University, author of Alex and Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence-and formed a Deep Bond in the Process Alexandra Horowitz, professor at Barnard, head of dog cognition lab, author of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know Ashley Shew, professor at Virginia Tech, author of Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge Keri Cronin, professor at Brock University, author of Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1875-1914 Further Reading: The “Clever Hans Phenomenon” revisited Lost in Translation: Koko the gorilla and language research The Alex studies: cognitive and communicative abilities of grey parrot Reddit AMA: I am Dr. Irene Pepperberg, research associate at Harvard in the field of avian cognition...ask me anything Animal language studies: What happened? Learn to sniff like a dog. “‘Can’t You Talk?’: Voice and Visual Culture in Early Animal Welfare (more reading at Flash Forward's main site) Learn more about Twenty Thousand Hertz here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and I'm your host.

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Flash Forward is a show.

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A.

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Hello and Welcome to Flash Forward.

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I'm Rose and I'm your host. Flash forward is a show about the future. Every

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episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario. We

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always start with a little field trip into the future to

0:25.1

check out what's going on and then we teleport back to today to talk to experts

0:29.9

about how that world that we just heard might really go down.

0:34.4

Got it?

0:35.4

Great.

0:36.4

Before we go to the future of this episode, I want to do a tiny bit of business housekeeping

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stuff.

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This is episode 11 of this season which means that we are halfway

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through the very arbitrary 20 episodes that make up each season of flash forward. So I

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wanted to pause and really quickly say a few things.

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First, thank you so much to all the patrons who make this show happen.

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Today's episode has Zero Ads sold on it, which means that without Patreon I would be making exactly

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zero dollars.

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Every episode takes me about 60 hours to make, so I can't exactly do that without knowing that I'll make at least a little bit of money. I do have a dog to feed and you will

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