The curse aeration rates in the United States and the russia being among the worlds highest its really hard to draw a Straight Line from language to a statistic like that because there are so many other factors that also all play and so we would have to do a very careful study trying to a lot is that even possible do you think you can design a study like this to prove that connection the reason it would be hard to do in the real world is because if were going country by country there arent actually that many countries in the world and so you very quickly run out of statistical power thats a technical answer to your question but you could do expect some smaller scale experiments where you ask people to make judgements about. Blame and punishment when theyre speaking one language or another or when theyve been exposed to more intent and language or less attentive language and see if they make different judgments use the example of Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson having a wardrobe off
A statistic like that because there are so many other factors that also all play and so we would have to do a very careful study trying to or a lot is that even possible do you think you can design a study like to prove that connection the reason it would be hard to do in the real world is because if were going country by country there arent actually that many countries in the world and so you very quickly run out of statistical power thats a technical answer to your question but you could do expect some smaller scale experiments where you ask people to make judgements about. Blame and punishment when theyre seeking one language or another or when theyve been exposed to more intent and language or less intent of language and see if they make different judgments we use the example of Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson having a wardrobe malfunction at the super bowl if we say timberlake rips the costume. People are much more likely to blame timberlake and they also want to charge him 53
The loss of our living with cancer in 920 why then the following century of booming linguistic studies have only confirmed that if our language is indeed shaped by us as much as we think we shape them do we ever really speak our mind to discuss that im now joined by letter but i didnt ski associate professor of cognitive science at the university of california san diego professor bard its a pleasure and honor to talk to thank you very much for your time thanks so much for having me now i know that you have long been studying the relationship with the band the mind the language and the world around us and i think you come to some very humbling conclusions that as much as real like to see ourselves as the masters of our thought and our warrants it works in the opposite direction to our language shapes our experience in some very profound ways how does it work well of course we all have many years of experience speaking a language and we absorb so many. We have it in so many important str
Cities caucus. Stubble, what is it, and how do you envision smart cities . We decided to establish a bipartisan smart cities caucus, originally darrell issa with my cochair. It is no congresswoman from indiana. Susan brooks. Susan brooks, exactly. We knew that already technology is a major part of our lives. It is a utility that we can use to make sure we are economically feasible going into the future, that we are inefficient in our use of energy, and it enables our society to be far more productive than our 20th century industrial age. We are looking at the fact that so much of what already exists in society is connected. And what our smart cities caucus does is it looks at four different areas of how we are connected. One is connectivity. The other principal being sustainability. The other being mobility. And then the workforce. And how all those components Work Together to make sure that in the 21st century our Civil Society is given the opportunity to really reach its full potenti
That structure its not going to be optional well all speakers of that language are going to have to use that structure its not going to be optional if youre speaking russian you cant just speak russian and not use grammatical gender no ones going to recognize if youre speaking russian you cant just be christian and not use grammatical gender no ones going to recognize you as a real russian speakers and so it becomes something thats then universally real russian speakers and so it becomes something thats then universally distributed through the culture the know the languages can lose genders can add genders thats tributed through the culture then of the languages can lose genders can add genders that process is going to have to take a very long time whereas other cultural practices can come and go that process is going to have to take a very long time whereas other cultural practices can come and go much more fluidly and may only affect some portions of the body but how much more fluidl