http://www.sciscoop.com/2004-8-22-133727-883.html Scooping up science news and dropping it on your desk Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:03:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.sciscoop.com/2004-8-22-133727-883.html/comment-page-1#comment-4059 Sweetwind Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:55:42 +0000 http://localhost/~arielschwartz/wordpress/sciscoop/?p=2127#comment-4059 I have added a reminder to that effect to the submission guidelines that appear when submitting a story. I have added a reminder to that effect to the submission guidelines that appear when submitting a story.

]]> http://www.sciscoop.com/2004-8-22-133727-883.html/comment-page-1#comment-3638 Anonymous Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:48:01 +0000 http://localhost/~arielschwartz/wordpress/sciscoop/?p=2127#comment-3638 Perhaps their language doesn't accomodate higher numbers because they have always had a genetic predisposition to not being able to remember higher numbers? Maybe their language reflects their latent (dis)abilities rather than causes them. Perhaps their language doesn’t accomodate higher numbers because they have always had a genetic predisposition to not being able to remember higher numbers? Maybe their language reflects their latent (dis)abilities rather than causes them.

]]> http://www.sciscoop.com/2004-8-22-133727-883.html/comment-page-1#comment-3094 Anonymous Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:40:07 +0000 http://localhost/~arielschwartz/wordpress/sciscoop/?p=2127#comment-3094 I read this site occasionally through RSS, and nearly didn't pick this one up due to a crappy title. A better title would be "Language: Use it or Lose it" I read this site occasionally through RSS, and nearly didn’t pick this one up due to a crappy title. A better title would be “Language: Use it or Lose it”

]]> http://www.sciscoop.com/2004-8-22-133727-883.html/comment-page-1#comment-2341 BigZaphod Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:19:25 +0000 http://localhost/~arielschwartz/wordpress/sciscoop/?p=2127#comment-2341 This is entirely off topic..  but wow..  I swear we follow each other around the web janra..  :-)  I see you everywhere I go from K5 and now here.  It's a small web, apparently... This is entirely off topic..  but wow..  I swear we follow each other around the web janra..  :-)  I see you everywhere I go from K5 and now here.  It’s a small web, apparently…

]]> http://www.sciscoop.com/2004-8-22-133727-883.html/comment-page-1#comment-1309 kryptothesuperdog Mon, 23 Aug 2004 04:42:27 +0000 http://localhost/~arielschwartz/wordpress/sciscoop/?p=2127#comment-1309 Just to say that I recently read Steven Pinker's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393318486/qid=1093260693/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-0257332-1821465?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">How The Mind Works</a> which goes into detail on the relation of language and thought. I found the book absolutely fascinating (second only to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393315703/qid=1093261027/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-0257332-1821465">The Blind Watchmaker</a> in terms of exclaim-out-loud information) and would thoroughly recommend it to anyone interested in the mind, especially if, like me, you have little existing knowledge of cognitive science. Just to say that I recently read Steven Pinker’s How The Mind Works which goes into detail on the relation of language and thought. I found the book absolutely fascinating (second only to The Blind Watchmaker in terms of exclaim-out-loud information) and would thoroughly recommend it to anyone interested in the mind, especially if, like me, you have little existing knowledge of cognitive science.

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