http://twitpic.com/5o6dc7 Blimey, has anyone told the Mayor of London about this scientific effort to smooth bus traffic flow? #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:14 AM
http://twitpic.com/5o6dc7 Blimey, has anyone told the Mayor of London about this scientific effort to smooth bus traffic flow? #SSE2011
Just made some graphene using a Nobel prize-winning method - using pencil graphite and sticky-tape! #SSE2011 #SSE2011Graphene
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Just made some graphene using a Nobel prize-winning method - using pencil graphite and sticky-tape! #SSE2011 #SSE2011Graphene
Stall called "Schrodinger's cat in a silicon chip". Cld look at it but it may be rubbish; if I don't, won't know if it is or not ;) #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Stall called "Schrodinger's cat in a silicon chip". Cld look at it but it may be rubbish; if I don't, won't know if it is or not ;) #SSE2011
Just met @queerpup after the talk, hooray for Twitter :) Now on whistlestop tour of #SSE2011 exhibition - lots of exciting stuff to see :)
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Just met @queerpup after the talk, hooray for Twitter :) Now on whistlestop tour of #SSE2011 exhibition - lots of exciting stuff to see :)
Event ends on psychoanalysis of cats & dogs. Happy to hear talking ("SAUSAGES!") dog from That's Life! get a (facetious) mention :) #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Event ends on psychoanalysis of cats & dogs. Happy to hear talking ("SAUSAGES!") dog from That's Life! get a (facetious) mention :) #SSE2011
Psychologist: don't see various theories on speech evolution as competitive, but rather as possible complementary contributions. #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Psychologist: don't see various theories on speech evolution as competitive, but rather as possible complementary contributions. #SSE2011
Marwell macaques, "intrinsically motivated by something new", smell, touch and lick their touchscreens. Must be iPad users, surely? #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Marwell macaques, "intrinsically motivated by something new", smell, touch and lick their touchscreens. Must be iPad users, surely? #SSE2011
Did language come because of our complex thought capacity, or vice versa? I call this: "which came first, the diction or the head?" #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Did language come because of our complex thought capacity, or vice versa? I call this: "which came first, the diction or the head?" #SSE2011
Taking about how rapidly language can evolve due to cultural changes. Whatever could they mean? *inserts hashtag into tweet* ;) #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Taking about how rapidly language can evolve due to cultural changes. Whatever could they mean? *inserts hashtag into tweet* ;) #SSE2011
Good frugality at @summerscience: staff t-shirts printed in @southbankcentre typeface presumably left from #seefurther last year :) #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Good frugality at @summerscience: staff t-shirts printed in @southbankcentre typeface presumably left from #seefurther last year :) #SSE2011
After genetic work, looked at neanderthal DNA and found speech bit more like human than ape. Newspapers: "NEANDERTHALS COULD SPEAK" #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
After genetic work, looked at neanderthal DNA and found speech bit more like human than ape. Newspapers: "NEANDERTHALS COULD SPEAK" #SSE2011
Psychologist mentions old exp'ts done trying to teach chimps to speak by raising them in families w/human children. Wait, what?! #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Psychologist mentions old exp'ts done trying to teach chimps to speak by raising them in families w/human children. Wait, what?! #SSE2011
Q&A time. Bloke says he'd heard the reason why we could speak was our lower-down larynx. Scientist stifles sigh at simplistic media #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Q&A time. Bloke says he'd heard the reason why we could speak was our lower-down larynx. Scientist stifles sigh at simplistic media #SSE2011
Coffee break, so they're passing round some pictures: http://twitpic.com/5o507b Where are the monkeys with iPads I was imagining?! #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Coffee break, so they're passing round some pictures: http://twitpic.com/5o507b Where are the monkeys with iPads I was imagining?! #SSE2011
Geneticist says language good for abstract/future/past talk; psych'gist agrees there's next-to-no evidence of that in other animals #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Geneticist says language good for abstract/future/past talk; psych'gist agrees there's next-to-no evidence of that in other animals #SSE2011
Discussion between the 2 scientists now. 1st disagrees w/2nd that there's no "extra,qualitative difference" between human&ape comms #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Discussion between the 2 scientists now. 1st disagrees w/2nd that there's no "extra,qualitative difference" between human&ape comms #SSE2011
Summary: to understand human communications, we must study other species' comms too, "otherwise we have a sample size of one". #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Summary: to understand human communications, we must study other species' comms too, "otherwise we have a sample size of one". #SSE2011
However, scientists keep discovering that things previously thought unique to human speech can also be seen in other primate calls #SSE2011
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 AM
However, scientists keep discovering that things previously thought unique to human speech can also be seen in other primate calls #SSE2011