Cognitive Scientist, Lara Boroditsky

Lara Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist who studies how humans get so smart. She says languages and cultures that we have help us think the way that we do. In an Aboriginal community in Australia, where they could do this task very easily,. I could ask a five-year-old girl, hey, can you point southeast? And she would point immediately and without hesitation. That's a big difference compared to, say, a room full of distinguished scientists...