Ep 350: Who said what when, and how?
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Who said what when, and how?
The evidence is patchy and your hosts are daffy, but we try to figure out when language began.
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Ep 349: Monkey talk!
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Monkey talk!
We look at how nonhuman primates use language, compare it to human language use, and guess how one turned into the other.
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Ep 348: Animals, lies and language
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Animals, lies and language
An honest signal is useful for the one sending and receiving it. But, dishonest signals tend to destabilize the ability to communicate. How did human language develop when words make it so easy to fib?
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Ep 347: Prey or play
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Prey or play
When differing animals meet, they sometimes communicate. Sometimes threats, sometimes lies, sometimes laughter. We take a look at interspecies communication.
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Ep 346: Ah, those babbling bacteria
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Ah, those babbling bacteria
We begin a new subseries this week on language and communication. For starters, let’s have a looksee at how single-celled organisms chat.
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Ep 345: Accidents and asteroids
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Accidents and asteroids
We didn’t notice it was going to be asteroid day until yesterday, but by coincidence, today is all about asteroids.
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Ep 344: Robots chasing tail
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Robots chasing tail
Once thought a portent of doom, or a sign of the impending death of kings, nowadays a comet makes a good target to launch a mission at.
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Ep 343: Five years of the lab, for reasons
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Five years of the lab, for reasons
We’ve been putting out episodes on science for five years. There’s no end in sight. You’re welcome, or we’re sorry, depending. In celebration we relax with a freeform episode, even drink a couple of beers. We do drift passed a bit of science, but only by accident.
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Ep 342: From Pluto, with love
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From Pluto, with love
If you count it as a planet, it is the furthest away and smallest. Whether or not you think it’s a planet, it might harbor life.
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Ep 341: There’s something on the wing!
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There’s something on the wing!
High winds, a segmented ring and other oddities confound us as we take a trip to Neptune.
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