East Africa's elephants face few threats in their savanna home, aside from humans and lions. But the behemoths are terrified of African bees, and with good reason. An angry swarm can sting elephants around their eyes and inside their trunks and pierce the skin of young calves. Now, a new study shows that the pachyderms utter a distinctive rumble in response to the sound of bees, the first time an alarm call has been identified in elephants. … [T]he study suggests that this alarm call isn't just a generalized vocalization but means specifically, "Bees!" says Lucy King, a postgraduate zoologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and the study's lead author. When they hear buzzing bees, the pachyderms turn and run away, shaking their heads while making a call that King terms the "bee rumble."

Provides audio of spoken Globish and side-by-side comparisons.

The most complete description I've seen (along with graphic) for how the ancient language reconstructions algorithms work.

Not about linguistics, but of general interest to students. Talks about genetic basis for test anxiety--and under which conditions it is advantageous. This article is long but gets more interesting the further you read.

baby copies tones in dad's rap

I recommend that everyone watch this...through to the end.

linguistics blog

Great explanation for how to do a one-person experiment on yourself using the n=1 experimental design principles.

hour-long video of a small presentation at UNM

You can actually listen to an audio recording of this white whale--it sounds like a human talking through a kazoo....Amazing! But he died five years ago...I'm bummed that they didn't study it more.