Podcast: Tracking Zika, the evolution of sign language, and changing hearts and minds with social science

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News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Online news editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on the evolution of sign language, short conversations than can change minds on social issues, and finding the one-in-a-million people who seem to be resistant to certain genetic diseases—even if they carry genes for them. Nuno Faria joins host Sarah Crespi to explain how genomic analysis can track Zika’s entry date into Brazil and follow its spread. [Image: r.a. olea/Flickr] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.5	I'm Sarah Crespi.
0:49.2	In this week's show, Nuno Faria talks about tracing the roots of Brazil's Zika epidemic.
0:55.1	And Catherine Mattisick is here with a roundup of stories from our daily news site.
1:03.5	Support for the science podcast is provided by AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1:14.4	Now, the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Now we have Catherine Mattisick, an editor for our online daily news site.
1:19.1	She's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:21.9	First up, we have a story on the evolution of sign language.
1:25.7	We're lucky to have the author of this story here today, so I won't
1:30.0	need to do too much introducing. Catherine, this story is about studying sign language development
1:35.8	in the lab. What's the background here? What are some of the big sign language mysteries?
1:42.3	The big mysteries of sign language are the same mysteries of all languages.
1:46.6	How did they get their start?
1:48.1	And once they started, how did they become more complex?
1:51.5	So how did we go from the idea of an apple to a word for apple to eventually complex
1:57.9	nuanced discussions about apples?
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