Babies are speaking to us all the time, but most of us have no clue what they're saying. To researchers, though, the babbling of babies is knowable, predictable, and best of all, teachable to us non-experts. This week, we revisit our May 2018 primer on how to decipher the secret language of babies and young children.
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The Cowboy Philosopher
In 2009, an old man died in a California nursing home. His obituary included not just his given name, but a long list of the pseudonyms he’d been known to use. In this classic 2019 episode, we trace the life of Riley Shepard, a hillbilly musician, writer, small-time con man and, ... Show More
1h 29m
Apr 27
Designing a Life that Matters
We tell ourselves that meaning comes from impact, passion, or finding the “one right path.” But these beliefs can leave us feeling stuck — even when our lives look perfectly fine on paper. Behavioral scientist Dave Evans describes a new approach, borrowed from design thinking, to ... Show More
51m 6s
Dec 2021
Le langage des (bébés) animaux décrypté
L'homme qui parlait à l'oreille des bébés animaux. Ou plutôt de leurs parents. Car c'est en associant des enregistrements de cris de détresse, ou d'autres sons émis par des petits, à la réaction d'animaux adultes, que le bioacousticien Nicolas Mathevon et son équipe sont parvenus ... Show More
17m 39s
Oct 2021
Comment les bébés malvoyants perçoivent-ils le monde ?
<p>Quelle perception avons-nous du monde qui nous entoure ? Pour répondre à cette question, il suffit assez simplement de questionner différentes personnes pour obtenir des réponses. Toutefois, ce n’est pas toujours aussi facile. En effet, pour ce qui est de comprendre quelle est ... Show More
1m 51s
Aug 2023
How We’re Learning to Talk to Animals
If we could talk with the animals, grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals, what would we say? We’d better start thinking of something good because researchers are learning to speak sperm whale, prairie dog, and a bunch of other species' languages.See omnystudio.com/listener ... Show More
53m 58s