Your hands aren’t just accessories to your words. They’re one of the most powerful tools you have to make your ideas resonate.
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Elephants were found to gesture intentionally when they wanted humans to give them apples. This trait was thought to exist mainly in primates.
Whether they’re in a classroom or online, students should be encouraged to move around. An expert on learning with technology explains why.
The coronavirus outbreak is causing people to rethink the handshake and seek other gestures that perform similar functions without touch.
Instead of worrying that emoji is replacing competent language use, we can celebrate that emoji are creating a richer form of online communication that returns the features of gesture to language.
A simple idea that’s surprisingly secure: drawing your own unlock pattern on a touchscreen. Faster and easier to remember than a password, and much harder to guess or crack.
What can a bunch of people grunting in a lab teach us about our capacity to create language systems? A lot about the gesture- or vocalization-based origins of language.
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