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“In my one-day course, I show 3 rare books: a 1570 Euclid, a 1613 Galileo, and a...”
– “Whites gloves = Don’t touch,” Edward Tufte, 6 March 2004
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Language and spatial sense →
Lera Boroditsky (Professor of Psychology, Stanford) talks about the old “does language determine how we think” question on Edge. Conducting experiments with the Kuuk Thaayorre, an Aboriginal people in northern Australia, she finds some remarkable things. The Kuuk Thaayorre have an extraordinary sense of space. In their language, they speak not of turning left, right, ahead, or back,...
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