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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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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?
Continue reading Ep 348: Animals, lies and language
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When differing animals meet, they sometimes communicate. Sometimes threats, sometimes lies, sometimes laughter. We take a look at interspecies communication.
Continue reading Ep 347: Prey or play
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We begin a new subseries this week on language and communication. For starters, let’s have a looksee at how single-celled organisms chat.
Continue reading Ep 346: Ah, those babbling bacteria
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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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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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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.
Continue reading Ep 343: Five years of the lab, for reasons
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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.
Continue reading Ep 342: From Pluto, with love
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High winds, a segmented ring and other oddities confound us as we take a trip to Neptune.
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Jokes aside, we take a more complete look at Uranus, the sideways planet.
Continue reading Ep 340: Uranus, as a whole