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So what is your body language communicating to me?
So social scientists have spent a lot of time looking at the effects of our body language, or other people's body language, on judgments.
And we make sweeping judgments and inferences from body language.
And it was really the beginning of my understanding the power of language, and how what we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
And then, following this advice, we start with this lowly, humble NAND gate, and we walk our students through an elaborate sequence of projects in which they gradually build a chip set, a hardware platform, an assembler, a virtual machine, a basic operating system and a compiler for a simple, Java-like language that we call "JACK."
You can imagine the tremendous joy of playing with a Tetris game that you wrote in JACK and then compiled into machine language in a compiler that you wrote also, and then seeing the result running on a machine that you built starting with nothing more than a few thousand NAND gates.
Throughout all of history, if you wanted something translated from one language into another, you had to involve a human being.
And when you write for the Quarterly Journal of Economics, you have to use very dry and very circumspect language.
It's a visual construct of lines, dots, letters, designed in the language of our brains.
This map only shows the rapid transport connections, no local bus, very much in the "metro map" style that was so successful in London, and that since has been exported to so many other major cities, and therefore is the language that we should use for public transport maps.
About 150,000 years ago, when language came online, we started to put words to this constant emergency, so it wasn't just, "Oh my God, there's a saber-toothed tiger," which could be, it was suddenly, "Oh my God, I didn't send the email.
A slide like this is not only boring, but it relies too much on the language area of our brain, and causes us to become overwhelmed.
But for any of these things to work, the honesty in language, the local democracy, it's not just a question of what politicians do.
This forming of the powerful attachment between child and parent provides the building blocks for physical, social, language, cognitive and psychomotor development.
The English language is as big as it is.
So if we're not worrying about directing traffic, if we've transcended paper, if we are worrying less about control and more about description, then we can think of the English language as being this beautiful mobile.
If we think of the dictionary as being the map of the English language, these bright spots are what we know about, and the dark spots are where we are in the dark.
And we don't even know the shape of the language.
And that's because, well, people use the dictionary to stand for the whole language.
But the thing is, we could make the dictionary the whole language.
And the thing is, if we can put in all the words, no longer have that artificial distinction between good and bad, we can really describe the language like scientists.
The next big thing for me, the next big idea, we can find by going way back in history to the origins of language.
So one thing that we did, and I'll give you an example of looking at the language, is we paid people to write some fake reviews.
They're going to have different patterns of language.
Richard Ford: I was slow to learn to read, went all the way through school not really reading more than the minimum, and still to this day can't read silently much faster than I can read aloud, but there were a lot of benefits to being dyslexic for me because when I finally did reconcile myself to how slow I was going to have to do it, then I think I came very slowly into an appreciation of all of those qualities of language and of sentences that are not just the cognitive aspects of language: the syncopations, the sounds of words, what words look like, where paragraphs break, where lines break.
I just had to do it really slowly, and as I did, lingering on those sentences as I had to linger, I fell heir to language's other qualities, which I think has helped me write sentences.
He had to learn to hear the music in language.
But there people asked me, "Why do you speak Korean with a Spanish accent?" (Laughter) And, "You must be Japanese because of your big eyes and your foreign body language."
The allegations were that these guys were Muslim Brotherhood and they were throwing Syrian Army officers' bodies off the bridge, and they were cursing and using blasphemous language, and there were lots of counterclaims about who they were, and whether or not they were what the video said it was.
Sure, it is involved in positive emotions like love and compassion, but it's also involved in tons of other processes, like memory, language, attention, even anger, disgust and pain.
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