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Stuart Brown: Play is more than fun. 10 great TED Talks about talking. Science The language of dolphins: Denise Herzing at TED2013 A dolphin’s brain-to-body-weight ratio is second only to a human’s. They live complex social lives, can understand abstract concepts and even use tools. But as Denise Herzing asks in Session 8 of TED2013, “Do they have a language? If so, what are they talking about?” For 28 years, Herzing has been researching dolphins in the wild, spending five […] Culture 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think Economist Keith Chen starts today’s talk with an observation: to say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do.

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