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		<title>Native language shapes the melody of a newborn baby&#8217;s cry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telling the difference between a German and French speaker isn&#8217;t difficult. But you may be more surprised to know that you could have a good stab at distinguishing between German and French babies based on their cries. The bawls of &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/11/12/native-language-shapes-the-melody-of-a-newborn-babys-cry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Computer learns dogspeak</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aim of Molnár and colleagues’ experiments was to test a computer algorithm’s ability to identify and differentiate the acoustic features of dog barks, and classify them according to different contexts and individual dogs. The software analyzed more than 6000 &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/16/computer-learns-dogspeak/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paralysed man&#8217;s mind is &#8216;read&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electrodes have been implanted in the brain of Eric Ramsay, who has been &#8220;locked in&#8221; &#8211; conscious but paralysed &#8211; since a car crash eight years ago. These have been recording pulses in areas of the brain involved in speech. &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/11/19/bbc-news-health-paralysed-mans-mind-is-read/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM (Dedicated to Ustad Mahmud Ali Abd al-Khabir) Chaos CHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert &#38; spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/12/temporary-autonomous-zones-by-hakim-bey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Evolving Robots and a Comparison of Individual vs Group Selection&#8230; Awesome</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/02/evolving-robots-and-a-comparison-of-individual-vs-group-selection-awesome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living things communicate all the time. They bark, they glow, they make a stink, they thwack the ground. How their communication evolved is the sort of big question that keeps lots of biologists busy for entire careers. One of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/02/evolving-robots-and-a-comparison-of-individual-vs-group-selection-awesome/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Become a wordsmith &#8211; Weird and wonderful vocabulary from around the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Greeks had a word for it,&#8221; we used to say, when stumped for the precise way to describe something. Now, thanks to Adam Jacot de Boinod and his collection of bizarre foreign words, we discover that the Malays, Hawaiians &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/10/04/become-a-wordsmith-weird-and-wonderful-vocabulary-from-around-the-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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