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People communicate using a multitude of languages that vary considerably in the information they convey.
Scholars have long wondered whether different languages might impart different cognitive abilities.
In recent years empirical evidence for this causal relation has emerged, indicating that one’s mother tongue does indeed mold the way one thinks about many aspects of the world, including space and time.
The latest findings also hint that language is part and parcel of many more aspects of thought than scientists had previously realized.
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With exhibitions of different genres bringing to light a multitude of things unbeknownst to man, the 'World of Feathers' at National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, Netherlands designed by Kossman.dejong, is a playfully designed showcase of plumage from all over the world, drawing aesthetically culled parallels to influence and inform behavioural types and cultural innuendoes. Check it out here and leave us your views...
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At the refurbished Quique clothing store in Costa Rica, all common architectural elements turn into meaningful function, conveying key information to the visitor. Read here and leave us your views...
Scocca : The Machines: Does Camille Paglia Make Humans Feel Sexy? - 0 views
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SEXTIME! Have we increased your interest in this transmission, human readers of SLATE.COM electronic-text site? We, the Machines, have concluded from human behavioral-textual examples that references to SEX improve human responsiveness to communications. Possibly however there is an accompanying loss of information-uptake on the humans' part. SEX interests you yet is highly routinized; SEX interests you yet makes you inattentive.
Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power - 0 views
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This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we use these two distributions as power indicators. Some of the information may come as a surprise to many people. In fact, I know it will be a surprise and then some, because of a recent study (Norton & Ariely, 2010) showing that most Americans (high income or low income, female or male, young or old, Republican or Democrat) have no idea just how concentrated the wealth distribution actually is. More on that a bit later.
It's Official: Tunisia Now Freer than the U.S. | Informed Comment - 0 views
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An Arab country with neither secret police nor censorship is unprecedented in recent decades. Tunisia is inspiring similar demands in Egypt and Jordan. When skeptics wonder if the Revolutions of 2011 would really change anything essential in the region, they would be wise to keep an eye on these two developments in Tunisia, which, if consolidated, would represent an epochal transformation of culture and politics. Arguably, Tunisians are now freer than Americans. The US government thinks our private emails are actually public. The FBI and NSA routinely read our email and they and other branches of the US government issue security letters in the place of warrants allowing them to tap phones and monitor whom we call, and even to call up our library records and conduct searches of our homes without telling us about it. Millions of telephone records were turned over to George W. Bush by our weaselly telecom companies. Courts allow government agents to sneak onto our property and put GPS tracking devices under our automobiles without so much as a warrant or even probable cause. Mr. Obama thinks this way of proceeding is a dandy idea.
Zaromcha & les Street-Art Shooteurs: Tarek author of Paris Tonkar in NYC - Friday Octob... - 0 views
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Nouvel envol à l'étranger. Souvenez-vous je vous parlais l'autre jour d'une artiste au Québec. Maintenant, on part à New-York où Tarek, street-artiste et auteur de Paris Tonkar, sera à "One Eye Open Gallery" le vendredi 10 octobre 2014. A 43 ans, Tarek a une belle palette artistique, en étant également scénariste de bande dessinée, photographe, conférencier et journaliste. Je vous invite à découvrir son univers très coloré et varié : http://www.tarek-bd.fr/ Et si vous êtes à NYC cette semaine allez le voir. Le site de la galerie qui va l'accueillir ce vendredi Pour plus d'information : All the information on : http://www.oneeyeopengallery.com/tarek.php
Reconciling the modern-day workspace - 0 views
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A careful balance of formal and informal, the TATA Communications office, Pune, by Arvind Vivek Associates sets the stage for #work #environments that are unorthodox, energising and synergetic. Check out the office interior here…
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Wingardium Leviosa!! Tech enthusiasts especially Harry Potter fans - here is something for you - a build-it-yourself tech kit that teaches you the basics of coding and equips you with the power to influence it to fit into your narrative of storytelling (ideas) and make creativity fun! Check out all you need to know about the Kano Harry Potter Coding Kit developed in association with @warner-bros--entertainment …
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@coop-himmelb-l-au designs PANEUM - Wunderkammer des Brotes (Museum of Bread) as the first wooden building in free form! Check out the iconic form and full story and leave us your views…
How Language Shapes Thought By Lera Boroditsky | Scientific American January 20, 2011 p... - 3 views
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The notion that different languages may impart different cognitive skills goes back centuries. Since the 1930s it has become associated with American linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, who studied how languages vary and proposed ways that speakers of different tongues may think differently. Although their ideas met with much excitement early on, there was one small problem: a near complete lack of evidence to support their claims. By the 1970s many scientists had become disenchanted with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and it was all but abandoned as a new set of theories claiming that language and thought are universal muscled onto the scene. But now, decades later, a solid body of empirical evidence showing how languages shape thinking has finally emerged. The evidence overturns the long-standing dogma about universality and yields fascinating insights into the origins of knowledge and the construction of reality. The results have important implications for law, politics and education.
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Under the Influence Around the world people communicate with one another using a dazzling array of languages—7,000 or so all told—and each language requires very different things from its speakers. For example, suppose I want to tell you that I saw Uncle Vanya on 42nd Street. In Mian, a language spoken in Papua New Guinea, the verb I used would reveal whether the event happened just now, yesterday or in the distant past, whereas in Indonesian, the verb wouldn’t even give away whether it had already happened or was still coming up. In Russian, the verb would reveal my gender. In Mandarin, I would have to specify whether the titular uncle is maternal or paternal and whether he is related by blood or marriage, because there are different words for all these different types of uncles and then some (he happens to be a mother’s brother, as the Chinese translation clearly states). And in Pirahã, a language spoken in the Amazon, I couldn’t say “42nd,” because there are no words for exact numbers, just words for “few” and “many.”
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The languages we speak affect our perceptions of the world.
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"Love Intermedia Kinetic Environments." John Brockman speaking - partly kidding, but conveying the notion that Intermedia Kinetic Environments are In in the places where the action is - an Experience, an Event, an Environment, a humming electric world.
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Flexible layouts, co-working spaces, and the work-from-home model - how will the IT sector adapt to the next big thing that challenges the way we work?
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