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La journée mondiale de l'intelligence animale est célébrée chaque année, le 4 février. BSG rediffuse à cette occasion les 12 épisodes de la série "La bête en nous" avec Jessica Serra.Le prix Ig Nobel (prononcé Ignobel, en référence à "ignoble" est un prix parodique créé en 1991. Il distingue chaque année 10 recherches scientifiques au premier abord loufoques, qui amènent ensuite à réfléchir. Quelques primés récents :Biologie : Susanne Schötz pour avoir analysé les variations de ronronnements, hurlements, grognements, miaulements et autres variations entre le chat et l'humain.Entomologie : John Mulrennan, Jr., Roger Grothaus, Charles Hammond et Jay Lamdin, pour leur étude sur une nouvelle méthode de contrôle des cafards dans les sous - marins.Transport : Robin Radcliffe, Mark Jago, Peter Morkel, Estelle Morkel, Pierre du Preez, Piet Beytell, Birgit Kotting, Bakker Manuel, Jan Hendrik du Preez, Michele Miller, Julia Felippe, Stephen Parry et Robin Gleed, pour avoir déterminé s'il est plus sûr de transporter un rhinocéros en vol la tête en bas.Acoustique : Stephan Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson et Tecumseh Fitch pour avoir introduit un alligator de Chine dans une pièce étanche remplie d'air enrichi à l'hélium afin d'étudier les changements dans la fréquence de ses vocalisations.Physique : à Patricia Yang, Alexander Lee, Miles Chan, Alynn Martin, Ashley Edwards, Scott Carver, et David Hu pour avoir découvert comment et pourquoi les wombats font des crottes cubiques.Biologie : à une équipe formée de deux Japonais, d'un Brésilien et d'un Suisse pour avoir démontré l'existence d'un pénis chez le représentant femelle des insectes du genre Neotrogla et d'un vagin chez le représentant mâle.Littérature : Fredrik Sjöberg (Suède) pour son travail autobiographique en 3 volumes traitant de son plaisir à collectionner des mouches mortes et des mouches qui ne sont pas mortes.etc ..._______ 

This episode —first released in 2009 and then again in 2015, with an update — asks, what is “normal”? Maybe it exists, maybe not. We examine peace-loving baboons with Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, talk to Stu Rasmussen, whose preferred pronouns were he/him (https://zpr.io/nUdsZawNmhwt), and his neighbors in Silverton, Oregon about how a town chooses its community over outsider opinions. And lastly, we speak with an evolutionary anthropologist, Duke University's own Brian Hare, and an evolutionary biologist Tecumseh Fitch, then at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, now at the University of Vienna, Austria, about foxes who love to snuggle.And what we find is that normal — maybe the only normal — is change. EPISODE CREDITS Reported by - Aaron CohenProduced by - Soren Wheelerwith help from - Annie McEwenCITATIONSArticles -Stu Rasmussen's NYT Obituary (https://zpr.io/nUdsZawNmhwt). Theater - Andrew Russel's “Stu for Silverton” (https://zpr.io/Jn5JP276pwhj) the play based on Stu Rasmussen's life.    Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org Leadership support for Radiolab's science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Posiadanie przyjaciół i kolegów jest normalnym zjawiskiem dla człowieka - dla zwierząt kontakty z innymi stadami zwykle kończą się agresją, ale tym razem było inaczej. Inaczej na problem dostępności rogówek do przeszczepów spojrzeli bioinżynierowie przyglądając się bliżej świńskiej skórze. W dzisiejszym odcinku wyrecytuję również wiersz, nagrany po 128 próbach oraz opowiem, jak chodzą dzieci w Japonii. Zapraszam serdecznie!Jeśli uznasz, że warto wspierać ten projekt to zapraszam do serwisu Patronite, każda dobrowolna wpłata od słuchaczy pozwoli mi na rozwój i doskonalenie tego podkastu, bardzo dziękuję za każde wsparcie!Zapraszam również na Facebooka, Twittera i Instagrama, każdy lajk i udostępnienie pomoże w szerszym dotarciu do słuchaczy, a to jest teraz moim głównym celem :) Na stronie Naukowo.net znajdziesz więcej interesujących artykułów naukowych, zachęcam również do dyskusji na tematy naukowe, dzieleniu się wiedzą i nowościami z naukowego świata na naszym serwerze Discord - https://discord.gg/mqsjM5THXrŹródła użyte przy tworzeniu odcinka:Danaher-Garcia Nicole, Connor Richard, Fay Gavin, Melillo-Sweeting Kelly and Dudzinski Kathleen M. 2022. The partial merger of two dolphin societies .R. Soc. open sci.9211963211963. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211963Rafat, M., Jabbarvand, M., Sharma, N. et al. Bioengineered corneal tissue for minimally invasive vision restoration in advanced keratoconus in two clinical cohorts. Nat Biotechnol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01408-wIto, T., Noritake, K., Ito, Y. et al. Three-dimensional gait analysis of lower extremity gait parameters in Japanese children aged 6 to 12 years. Sci Rep 12, 7822 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11906-1Takeshi Nishimura, Isao T. Tokuda, Shigehiro Miyachi, Jacob C. Dunn, Christian T. Herbst, Kazuyoshi Ishimura, Akihisa Kaneko, Yuki Kinoshita, Hiroki Koda, Jaap P. P. Saers, Hirohiko Imai, Tetsuya Matsuda, Ole Næsbye Larsen, Uwe Jürgens, Hideki Hirabayashi, Shozo Kojima, W. Tecumseh Fitch. Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm1574

Sous notre Gravillon vous trouverez... 4 podcasts complémentaires, 1 site, 1 compte Insta, une page et un groupe Facebook, et une chaîne YouTube 1 asso dédiés au Vivant: https://baleinesousgravillon.com/liens-2 ______   Le prix Ig Nobel (prononcé Ignobel, en référence à "ignoble" est un prix parodique créé en 1991. Il distingue chaque année 10 recherches scientifiques au premier abord loufoques, qui amènent ensuite à réfléchir.   Quelques primés récents: Biologie : Susanne Schötz pour avoir analysé les variations de ronronnements, hurlements, grognements, miaulements et autres variations entre le chat et l'humain. Entomologie : John Mulrennan, Jr., Roger Grothaus, Charles Hammond et Jay Lamdin, pour leur étude sur une nouvelle méthode de contrôle des cafards dans les sous - marins. Transport : Robin Radcliffe, Mark Jago, Peter Morkel, Estelle Morkel, Pierre du Preez, Piet Beytell, Birgit Kotting, Bakker Manuel, Jan Hendrik du Preez, Michele Miller, Julia Felippe, Stephen Parry et Robin Gleed, pour avoir déterminé s'il est plus sûr de transporter un rhinocéros en vol la tête en bas. Acoustique : Stephan Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson et Tecumseh Fitch pour avoir introduit un alligator de Chine dans une pièce étanche remplie d'air enrichi à l'hélium afin d'étudier les changements dans la fréquence de ses vocalisations. Physique : à Patricia Yang, Alexander Lee, Miles Chan, Alynn Martin, Ashley Edwards, Scott Carver, et David Hu pour avoir découvert comment et pourquoi les wombats font des crottes cubiques. Biologie : à une équipe formée de deux Japonais, d'un Brésilien et d'un Suisse pour avoir démontré l'existence d'un pénis chez le représentant femelle des insectes du genre Neotrogla et d'un vagin chez le représentant mâle. Littérature : Fredrik Sjöberg (Suède) pour son travail autobiographique en 3 volumes traitant de son plaisir à collectionner des mouches mortes et des mouches qui ne sont pas mortes. etc ... ______   NB: Tous ces podcasts sont bénévoles et gratuits. Notre but est de faire connaître et de mieux inciter à protéger le Vivant. Vous pouvez nous faire un don sur Helloasso (ou sur Tipeee) ou adhérer à l'asso BSG ? Vous pouvez aussi nous aider sans dépenser un sou en installant le moteur de recherche solidaire Lilo. Merci !   Si vous appréciez nos programmes, si vous les trouvez pédagos et utiles, partagez nos liens et abonnez-vous ! Profitez-en pour nous laisser des étoiles et un avis, ce qui nous rend plus visibles. Grand merci !   Nous cherchons des partenaires. Nous donnons des conférences dans les écoles, les universités, les grandes écoles et les entreprises sur les grands sujets du Vivant. Nous pouvons vous accompagner pour créer ou développer votre podcast. Contactez-nous: contact@baleinesousgravillon.com 

From the archives comes this absolute BANGER of an episode from Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, cosmologist and campaigner. Ahead of our new season in November we're bringing you some of our full-length back episodes that are usually reserved for our patrons. Like what you hear? Back us on Patreon to help keep us on the air!And our new backers, All Good Bookshop will ship you a copy of The Disordered Cosmos - and any other book! - if you DM them your order. Tell 'em we sent you!Humanity has stopped moving. The average person now spends 70% of our time sitting or lying around - and that was before the pandemic. It's no surprise that this is linked to rising obesity rates, but it could also be increasing our levels of depression and reducing our cognitive skills.  Our guest on this episode, Caroline Williams, was going to be a PE teacher before being seduced by neuroscience. She's spent several years researching the connection between movement and the mind. As a science writer and broadcaster she says that her aim is to learn new and exciting things and share them in the most entertaining way she can think of. She is regularly featured in New Scientist magazine as well as the Guardian, BBC Future, BBC Earth and the Boston Globe. ​In her latest book, Move!, Caroline Williams investigates how movement moulds our minds including: how core strength is linked to stress control, why stretching tackles the mood-sapping effects of an overactive immune system, what dance can do for our emotional literacy, and why physical strength translates into emotional resilience.You can find Caroline at https://www.carolinewilliams.net and on Twitter.​​Move! Is Caroline's second book. Previously she wrote Override (published as My Plastic Brain in the US), and is the editor of two of New Scientist's Instant Expert Guides: How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe (John Murray, 2017) and Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain (John Murray, 2017).Ideas, People, and Works Mentioned:- Rodolfo Llinás, neuroscientist- Tecumseh Fitch, cognitive scientist- Rubber Hand Illusion- Marcus Scotney, ultramarathon runner- MovNat FitnessFind Us Online- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thenonficpod- Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/nonficpod (purchases here support us and independent booksellers in the UK)- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thenonficpod- Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/nonficpodCredits- Guest: Caroline Williams- Episode Producer: Emma Byrne- Series Exec Producers: Emma Byrne and Georgie Codd- Series Senior Producer: Beatrice Bazell - Composer and consulting engineer: Mike WyerAbout UsBrought to you by author and publishing rockstar Georgie Codd and author and broadcaster Emma Byrne, NonFicPod is your home for the latest nonfiction must reads. Our premium podcast, Sh*t I Wish I'd Known teaches you the lessons that we (and our guests) have learned about writing - and about life.Episode transcript available here (Google doc) Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode, Kate informs Matt about the fantastically hilarious “Ig Nobel Prizes”. The Ig Nobels are a parody of the better-known Nobel Prize, and they reward science that makes you laugh, and then makes you think. We take a dive into some of the most entertaining award winners from this year, last year, and across history. From levitating frogs and giving helium to alligators… to knives made from faeces and unboiled eggs. This is a wild ride of hilarious, but also super interesting science!  We also tackle a listener question about wind… how, and why, does it happen? As always, if you like our work you can find us @curiosityrat on twitter, instagram, and facebook, and send your listener questions in to curiosityrat@gmail.com We also now have a Patreon! If you love our content and want to support us you can jump on to https://www.patreon.com/curiosityrat and become a patron. There is absolutely ZERO pressure but if you have as little as $1/month you can chuck it our way to help us out and show you appreciate all the time and effort that goes into making this show. Referenced Ig Nobel Prize winners– taken from the Annals of Improbable Research Website: 2010 PHYSICS Prize: Andre Geim of the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and Sir Michael Berry of Bristol University (UK), for using magnets to levitate a frog. [REFERENCE: “Of Flying Frogs and Levitrons” by M.V. Berry and A.K. Geim, European Journal of Physics, v. 18, 1997, p. 307-13.]   2021 TRANSPORTATION PRIZE [NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA, TANZANIA, ZIMBABWE, BRAZIL, UK, USA]: Robin Radcliffe, Mark Jago, Peter Morkel, Estelle Morkel, Pierre du Preez, Piet Beytell, Birgit Kotting, Bakker Manuel, Jan Hendrik du Preez, Michele Miller, Julia Felippe, Stephen Parry, and Robin Gleed, for determining by experiment whether it is safer to transport an airborne rhinoceros upside-down. REFERENCE: “The Pulmonary and Metabolic Effects of Suspension by the Feet Compared with Lateral Recumbency in Immobilized Black Rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) Captured by Aerial Darting,” Robin W. Radcliffe, Mark Jago, Peter vdB Morkel, Estelle Morkel, Pierre du Preez, Piet Beytell, Birgit Kotting, Bakker Manuel, Jan Hendrik du Preez, Michele A. Miller, Julia Felippe, Stephen A Parry; R.D. Gleed, Journal of Wildlife Diseases, vol. 57, no. 2, 2021, 357–367. 2021 MEDICINE PRIZE [GERMANY, TURKEY, UK]: Olcay Cem Bulut, Dare Oladokun, Burkard Lippert, and Ralph Hohenberger, for demonstrating that sexual orgasms can be as effective as decongestant medicines at improving nasal breathing. REFERENCE: “Can Sex Improve Nasal Function? — An Exploration of the Link Between Sex and Nasal Function,” Olcay Cem Bulut, Dare Oladokun, Burkard M. Lippert, and Ralph Hohenberger, Ear, Nose & Throat Journal, 2021, no. 0145561320981441. 2021 PEACE PRIZE [USA]: Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, and David Carrier, for testing the hypothesis that humans evolved beards to protect themselves from punches to the face. REFERENCE: “Impact Protection Potential of Mammalian Hair: Testing the Pugilism Hypothesis for the Evolution of Human Facial Hair,” Ethan A. Beseris, Steven E. Naleway, David R. Carrier, Integrative Organismal Biology, vol. 2, no. 1, 2020, obaa005. 2020 ACOUSTICS PRIZE [AUSTRIA, SWEDEN, JAPAN, USA, SWITZERLAND] Stephan Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, and Tecumseh Fitch, for inducing a female Chinese alligator to bellow in an airtight chamber filled with helium-enriched air. REFERENCE: “A Chinese Alligator in Heliox: Formant Frequencies in a Crocodilian,” Stephan A. Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, and W. Tecumseh Fitch, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 218, 2015, pp. 2442-2447. 2020 PHYSICS PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, UKRAINE, FRANCE, ITALY, GERMANY, UK, SOUTH AFRICA] Ivan Maksymov and Andrey Pototsky, for determining, experimentally, what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency. REFERENCE: “Excitation of Faraday-like body waves in vibrated living earthworms,” Ivan S. Maksymov and Andrey Pototsky, bioRxiv 10.1101/868521, December 8, 2019. 2020 MATERIALS SCIENCE PRIZE [USA, UK] Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, James Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Ashley Rutkoski, Michael Wilson, and Mary Ann Raghanti, for showing that knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work well. REFERENCE: “Experimental Replication Shows Knives Manufactured from Frozen Human Feces Do Not Work,” Metin I. Eren, Michelle R. Bebber, James D. Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Ashley Rutkoski, Michael Wilson, and Mary Ann Raghanti, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 27, no. 102002, October 2019. 2012 MEDICINE PRIZE: Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti [FRANCE] for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimize the chance that their patients will explode. REFERENCE: “Colonic Gas Explosion During Therapeutic Colonoscopy with Electrocautery,” Spiros D Ladas, George Karamanolis, Emmanuel Ben-Soussan, World Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 13, no. 40, October 2007, pp. 5295–8. REFERENCE: “Argon Plasma Coagulation in the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Radiation Proctitis is Efficient But Requires a Perfect Colonic Cleansing to Be Safe,” E. Ben-Soussan, M. Antonietti, G. Savoye, S. Herve, P. Ducrotté, and E. Lerebours, European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. 16, no. 12, December 2004, pp 1315-8.   2017 CHEMISTRY PRIZE — Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston [AUSTRALIA], and Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese, Tivoli Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar, Gregory Weiss [USA], for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg. REFERENCE: “Shear-Stress-Mediated Refolding of Proteins from Aggregates and Inclusion Bodies,” Tom Z. Yuan, Callum F. G. Ormonde, Stephan T. Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin M. Pugliese, Tivoli J. Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar, Colin L. Raston, Gregory A. Weiss, ChemBioChem, vol. 16, no. 3, February 9, 2015, pp. 393–396.   Additional References: https://www.improbable.com/2021-ceremony/winners/ https://youtu.be/jiQW-nqoQYg https://youtu.be/KD6HhZiDFec https://youtu.be/auoRlBtbxvY   Listener Q References: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/wind/ https://www.universetoday.com/82329/what-causes-wind/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-does-wind-come-from/

Why do we make music? Why do we love music? Well, you say, because it's in our nature. Our brains were sculpted over the course of evolution to delight in sonic sequences, to remember melodies, to revel in rhythms. Perhaps. But, actually, not everyone thinks music is an adaptation. Not everything we do was directly shaped by natural selection. And even if music was an evolutionary adaptation, that raises a bunch of further questions, like: Why would musical abilities have been an advantage? Why did music emerge in our species, but not, say, in chimps? What were the first contexts in which music took shape? What were we singing or drumming or making all that racket about? For today's episode we're going behind a recent paper that explores these questions. My guest is Dr. Ed Hagen, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology Washington State University – Vancouver. For a couple decades now, on and off, Ed has been thinking and writing about the origins of music. Along with his co-authors Samuel Mehr, Max Krasnow, and Greg Bryant, Ed recently published a paper in the journal Behavioral & Brain Sciences titled 'Origins of music in credible signaling.' Ed and I talk about what first got him musing about music, back in graduate school. We consider the functions of vocal signaling in birds, wolves, chimps, and other creatures. We discuss three prominent ideas about the roots of music: Darwin's idea that it evolved as a way for males to advertise their quality, Pinker's idea that music is like cheesecake, and—perhaps the most popular of all—the idea that music evolved to help cement social bonds. And, of course, we dig into the meat Ed and company's paper, their alternative proposal. They argue that the roots of music lie in two contexts: coalition signaling and infant care. We'll get into the specifics, of course. One of my biggest takeaways from this conversation is that it's a fascinating time to be interested in the deep history of music. Seems like a bit of a subfield is coalescing around the topic. In fact—as Ed and I talk about—their paper was actually one of two papers on the origins of music published in the very same issue of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. If you want to dive deeper, definitely check out the other article as well.  One last note—and this is something I keep forgetting to mention: If you have ideas about who we should interview, or about which papers or topics we should feature, we would *love* to hear from you. Just find us on Twitter, or send an email to manymindspodcast@gmail.com. That's manymindspodcast@gmail.com.  Alright, on to my conversation with Dr. Ed Hagen. Enjoy!   Notes and links 3:00 – A 2003 paper by Dr. Hagen and co-author Greg Bryant about music as a “coalition signaling system.” 10:50 – An example of a gibbon song. 12:00 – The companion paper, led by Patrick Savage, advances the social bonding view. 15:30 – Darwin's theory of the origins of music was laid out in The Descent of Man. 20:20 – Steven Pinker proposed the “auditory cheesecake” hypothesis in How the Mind Works.    28:30 – An early article on how singing is preserved in aphasia. 42:00 – A paper on chimpanzee pant hoots; a video showing an example. 46:00 – Long-standing listeners will recall that we briefly discussed “contact calls” in our episode on piloerection. 51:00 – The study showing that dance music and lullabies are perhaps the most readily recognized genres of music, and the past episode where Manvir Singh and I discussed this. 55:30 – A book by Brian Hayden on feasting in pre-industrial societies. 1:00:30 – One advocate of the idea that language may have emerged from music is W. Tecumseh Fitch, who wrote The Evolution of Language. Dr. Hagen recommends you check out the companion paper—which advances the social bonding view and which appeared in the same issue of Behavioral & Brain Sciences—and Steven Mithen's book, The Singing Neanderthals. You can find Dr. Hagen on Twitter (@ed_hagen) and follow him at his website.  Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) (https://disi.org), which is made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to UCLA. It is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster, and Associate Director Isabelle Laumer. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd (https://www.mayhilldesigns.co.uk/). Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala (https://sarahdopierala.wordpress.com/). You can subscribe to Many Minds on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions. Feel free to email us at: manymindspodcast@gmail.com. For updates about the show, visit our website (https://disi.org/manyminds/), or follow us on Twitter: @ManyMindsPod.

Humanity has stopped moving. The average person now spends 70% of our time sitting or lying around - and that was before the pandemic. It's no surprise that this is linked to rising obesity rates, but it could also be increasing our levels of depression and reducing our cognitive skills.  Our guest on this episode, Caroline Williams, was going to be a PE teacher before being seduced by neuroscience. She's spent several years researching the connection between movement and the mind. As a science writer and broadcaster she says that her aim is to learn new and exciting things and share them in the most entertaining way she can think of. She is regularly featured in New Scientist magazine as well as the Guardian, BBC Future, BBC Earth and the Boston Globe. ​In her latest book, Move!, Caroline Williams investigates how movement moulds our minds including: how core strength is linked to stress control, why stretching tackles the mood-sapping effects of an overactive immune system, what dance can do for our emotional literacy, and why physical strength translates into emotional resilience.You can find Caroline at https://www.carolinewilliams.net and on Twitter.​​Move! Is Caroline's second book. Previously she wrote Override (published as My Plastic Brain in the US), and is the editor of two of New Scientist's Instant Expert Guides: How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe (John Murray, 2017) and Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain (John Murray, 2017).Ideas, People, and Works Mentioned:- Rodolfo Llinás, neuroscientist- Tecumseh Fitch, cognitive scientist- Rubber Hand Illusion- Marcus Scotney, ultramarathon runner- MovNat FitnessFind Us Online- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thenonficpod- Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/nonficpod (purchases here support us and independent booksellers in the UK)- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thenonficpod- Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/nonficpodCredits- Guest: Caroline Williams- Episode Producer: Emma Byrne- Series Exec Producers: Emma Byrne and Georgie Codd- Series Senior Producer: Beatrice Bazell - Composer and consulting engineer: Mike WyerAbout UsBrought to you by author and publishing rockstar Georgie Codd and author and broadcaster Emma Byrne, NonFicPod is your home for the latest nonfiction must reads. Our premium podcast, Sh*t I Wish I'd Known teaches you the lessons that we (and our guests) have learned about writing - and about life.Episode transcript available here (Google doc) Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Animals are capable of many amazing feats. Some even have remarkable learning and communication abilities, but do they have language? In part three of our series on language we take a look at the linguistic abilities of several animals and highlight a few of the distinctions between animal communication and human language. Show notesThe Here and Now Podcast Language SeriesAlex - The Genius Grey Parrot (YouTube)Washoe the signing chimpanzee (YouTube)Kanzi the bonobo who can talk (YouTube)Talking the Talk: Language Psychology and Science – Trevor Harley (2017)The Evolution of Language – W. Tecumseh Fitch (2010)The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker (2010)The Here and Now Podcast on Facebook The Here and Now Podcast on Twitter Send me an emailSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thehereandnowpodcast)

The origins of language are unknown. Now that's out of the way we can get on with investigating several of the possibilities in this second episode of our series on language. This episode considers Daniel Everett's gradualism thesis that the hominid Homo erectus  was an early adopter of language as evidenced by their extensive travels and creation of icons and symbols. We explore this thesis, Pierces' semiotics model, and evidence from the fossil record. Remember, this is a gentle introduction to the topic which fills volumes. You can find much more detail in the reading list below. Show NotesThe Here and Now Podcast Language SeriesHow Language Began – Daniel Everett (2017)How Language Began – Daniel Everett TED talk (YouTube)Language: The cultural tool - Daniel Everett (2012)The Evolution of Language – W. Tecumseh Fitch (2010)Talking the Talk: Language Psychology and Science – Trevor Harley (2017)Homo erectus - WikipediaHomo erectus may have been a sailor and able to speak – The Guardian (2018)Homo floresiensis - making sense of the small bodied hominin fossils from Flores - K. Baab (2012) Oldowan tools Charles Pierce's Semiotic Theory of SignsThe Makapangskat Pebble The Here and Now Podcast on Facebook The Here and Now Podcast on Twitter Send me an emailSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thehereandnowpodcast)

We find out more about two more Ig Nobel prizes, for Accoustics and Entomology. Spiders aren't insects, but they're pretty similar. So why do so many entomologists fear spiders? Lots of legs, moves suddenly, weird shape, are fine for entomologists but add 2 extra legs and it's right out. Extra legs are a deal breaker for entomologists with a fear of spiders. Helium, Alligators in a tank, and resonant frequencies won this group a Ig Nobel prize. You've heard of beard song, but what about Alligator on helium song? Alligators and Birds can help us understand the songs of Dinosaurs. “A Chinese Alligator in Heliox: Formant Frequencies in a Crocodilian,” Stephan A. Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, and W. Tecumseh Fitch, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 218, 2015, pp. 2442-2447. “Arachnophobic Entomologists: When Two More Legs Makes a Big Difference,” Richard S. Vetter, American Entomologist, vol. 59, no. 3, 2013, pp. 168-175.

Chegou o momento do já tradicional episódio duplo sobre o IgNobel, que tem como missão "honrar estudos e experiências que primeiro fazem as pessoas rir e depois pensar", com as descobertas científicas mais estranhas do ano.Esta é a primeira de duas partes sobre a edição 2020 do prêmio.Confira no papo entre o leigo curioso, Ken Fujioka, e o cientista PhD, Altay de Souza.OUÇA (99min 99s)*Naruhodo! é o podcast pra quem tem fome de aprender. Ciência, senso comum, curiosidades, desafios e muito mais. Com o leigo curioso, Ken Fujioka, e o cientista PhD, Altay de Souza.Edição: Reginaldo Cursino.http://naruhodo.b9.com.br*PARCERIA: ALURAA Alura tem mais de 1.000 cursos de diversas áreas e é a maior plataforma de cursos online do Brasil -- e você tem acesso a todos com uma única assinatura.Aproveite o desconto de R$100 para ouvintes Naruhodo no link:https://www.alura.com.br/promocao/naruhodo *REFERÊNCIASACOUSTICS PRIZE [AUSTRIA, SWEDEN, JAPAN, USA, SWITZERLAND]A Chinese alligator in heliox: formant frequencies in a crocodilianhttps://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/15/2442Stephan Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, and Tecumseh Fitch, for inducing a female Chinese alligator to bellow in an airtight chamber filled with helium-enriched air.PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [CANADA, USA]Eyebrows cue grandiose narcissismhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jopy.12396Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.MEDICINE PRIZE [THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM]Misophonia: Diagnostic Criteria for a New Psychiatric Disorderhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0054706Nienke Vulink, Damiaan Denys, and Arnoud van Loon, for diagnosing a long-unrecognized medical condition: Misophonia, the distress at hearing other people make chewing sounds.MANAGEMENT PRIZE [CHINA]Hesitant hitmen jailed over botched assassination in Chinahttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50137450(奚广安) Xi Guang-An, (莫天祥) Mo Tian-Xiang, (杨康生) Yang Kang-Sheng, (杨广生) Yang Guang-Sheng, and (凌显四) Ling Xian Si, five professional hitmen in Guangxi, China, who managed a contract for a hit job (a murder performed for money).ENTOMOLOGY PRIZE [USA]Arachnophobic Entomologists: When Two More Legs Makes a Big Differencehttps://academic.oup.com/ae/article/59/3/168/6813Richard Vetter, for collecting evidence that many entomologists (scientists who study insects) are afraid of spiders, which are not insects.Alligator Vocalizinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PVE9DLc-XkPodcasts das #Minas: CHÁ COM A IMPOSTORA#MulheresPodcastershttps://mailchi.mp/chacomaimpostora/podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/36DlM4ed55rMEQz519PGkZ*APOIE O NARUHODO!Você sabia que pode ajudar a manter o Naruhodo no ar?Ao contribuir, você pode ter acesso ao grupo fechado no Telegram, receber conteúdos exclusivos e ter vantagens especiais.Assine o apoio mensal pelo PicPay: https://picpay.me/naruhodopodcast

Professor Tecumseh Fitch Dept of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria I investigate human language viewed as a species-typical aspect of our biology, and attempt to understand it via comparison with other species’ cognition and communication systems (the comparative approach). The first step in doing so is to break language down to its components (the multi-component approach) and then ask which components are shared with which other species (or not). I present evidence for continuity in speech perception, most aspects of speech production, and of human conceptual semantics with animal cognition, and evidence for discontinuity when it comes to organizing principles of syntax (hierarchical structure) and potentially some aspects of semantics (pragmatic, theory-of-mind based production). I conclude that comparative research, guided by specific computational and mechanistic models deriving from linguistics and cognitive science, must play a central role in future attempts to understand language evolution.

How do we talk? And how do we sing? Most of us walk around making sound all day without any real idea of how we do it. We'll speak with vocologist Ingo Titze about how the human voice sings, the parts of a human singing voice, and more. We'll also speak with Tecumseh Fitch about why we talk... but monkeys don't. The reason? They've got the voice, but not the brains. We've even got some creepy recordings. Related links: Ingo's tips for tired voices: grab a straw! A reflex resonance model of vocal vibrato in The Journal of the Acoustical...

The neural crest is a transitory embryonic tissue that, early in development, gives rise to a very diverse set of tissues and organs including pigment cells (melanocytes), bones, muscles and connective tissues in the head, and the adrenal gland. Tecumseh Fitch (Univ of Vienna) hypothesizes that the selection for tameness during early stages of domestication led to delayed maturation and reduced output of the adrenal component of the “fight or flight” response, via reduced neural crest input. This led, as an unselected byproduct, to other neural crest-derived tissues also being reduced, resulting in short snouts, smaller teeth, floppy ears, and changes in pigmentation (e.g. white spots). Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 28900]

The neural crest is a transitory embryonic tissue that, early in development, gives rise to a very diverse set of tissues and organs including pigment cells (melanocytes), bones, muscles and connective tissues in the head, and the adrenal gland. Tecumseh Fitch (Univ of Vienna) hypothesizes that the selection for tameness during early stages of domestication led to delayed maturation and reduced output of the adrenal component of the “fight or flight” response, via reduced neural crest input. This led, as an unselected byproduct, to other neural crest-derived tissues also being reduced, resulting in short snouts, smaller teeth, floppy ears, and changes in pigmentation (e.g. white spots). Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 28900]

Recently, a convergence of views has led to the notion that the study of animal domestication may tell us something not only about our relationship with domesticated species since perhaps at least the Pleistocene, but also about our own evolution as a species in the more distant past. This symposium brings together scientists from a variety of research backgrounds to examine these views and to elucidate further the possible role of domestication in human evolution. Terrence Deacon (UC Berkeley) begins with a discussion about The Domesticated Brain, followed by Philipp Khaitovich (PICB, Shanghai) on Neotenous Gene Expression in the Developing Human Brain, and Tecumseh Fitch (Univ of Vienna) on The Domestication Syndrome and Neural Crest Cells: A Unifying Hypothesis. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 28892]

Recently, a convergence of views has led to the notion that the study of animal domestication may tell us something not only about our relationship with domesticated species since perhaps at least the Pleistocene, but also about our own evolution as a species in the more distant past. This symposium brings together scientists from a variety of research backgrounds to examine these views and to elucidate further the possible role of domestication in human evolution. Terrence Deacon (UC Berkeley) begins with a discussion about The Domesticated Brain, followed by Philipp Khaitovich (PICB, Shanghai) on Neotenous Gene Expression in the Developing Human Brain, and Tecumseh Fitch (Univ of Vienna) on The Domestication Syndrome and Neural Crest Cells: A Unifying Hypothesis. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 28892]

"Mutts" Creator Returns Patrick McDonnell is our special guest. His animal-friendly comic-strip is seen by 50 million readers every day. He uses his art to rally support for companion animal causes. He even is working with Fox on a new movie....details in this weeks program. Dogs Take 4,000 Mile Bike Ride Lynn Rodin is taking a long bike trip across America with her husband and two dogs. She hopes to raise awareness and funds for Parkinson's Disease. Her hubby just had brain surgery to relieve symptoms related to the disease. The Truth About Rudolph The news broke here first on Animal Radio®. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer may be keeping a secret about his true sexual identity. We'll divulge the facts as the saga continues. Drunk Birds Crash In Mid-Air British researchers are blaming the deaths of more than a dozen blackbirds on alcohol. 14 birds were found dead last summer at a school in England and at first authorities thought foul play was involved. Scientists concluded that the birds were intoxicated after eating fermented berries. Elephant Speaks An Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech, saying words in Korean. Researchers from the University of Vienna say it is unclear why Koshik started mimicking human speech, but cognitive biologists Angela Stoeger and Tecumseh Fitch suggest it might be related to his experiences as a juvenile. More this week