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Chen […] thinks that if your language has clear grammatical future tense marking […], then you and your fellow native speakers have a dramatically increased likelihood of exhibiting high rates of obesity, smoking, drinking, debt, and poor pension provision. And … Continue reading
Benjamin Motz –
Aymara-speakers conceive of time as flowing away from them [1], whereas we Anglophones think of ourselves as moving forward through time. They say “way back in the future” and gesture behind themselves when talking about what’s to come. It’s logical because … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract, abstraction, Aymara, belief, Benjamin Motz, conception, conceptions, ideas, ideation, Indiana, language, linguistics, perception, Pirahã, psychology, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, thought, time
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Mark 6:25–28 in Pirahã in English: 25… give me … the head of John the Baptist. 26And the king was exceeding sorry; yet … he would not reject her. 27And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, atheism, Brasil, Brazil, Christianity, Daniel Everett, Jesus, languages, linguistics, Pirahã, religion, scripture, sword, the Bible, violence
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Supremum
Ever since I took too many mathematics classes, I started using the concept of “upper bound” literally. It confuses people. Girlfriend: How long do you think it’ll take you to work out? Me: Oh, I don’t know. I’d say less than five … Continue reading
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Tagged arc, assumptions, confidence intervals, context, greatest lower bound, Gricean implicature, implication, implied, infimum, interpretation, language, least upper bound, linguistics, Paul Graham, pragmatics, Ronald Graham, semantics, statistics, suggestion, supremum, utterances
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Radiolab – Bird’s-Eye View
<![CDATA[// <![CDATA[ // <![CDATA[ // <![CDATA[ // <![CDATA[ // <![CDATA[ (function(){var s=function(){__flash__removeCallback=function(i,n){if(i)i[n]=null;};window.setTimeout(s,10);};s();})(); // ]] // ]] // ]] // ]]]]]]> // ]]]]>]]> In gradeschool calculus I learnt that derivative = slope. That was a nice teacher’s lie (like the Bohr … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Lee Whorf, calculus, cardinal directions, derivative, differential form, differential geometry, Edward Sapir, Elie Cartan, exterior algebra, integral, language, left, linguistics, mathematics, news, NSEW, orienteering, Pirahã, Pormpuraaw, right, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, science, space, time
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Human Mathematics 