Birds singing, dogs barking, computers sending and receiving data, you reading this description: at the end of the day, it’s all communication. This week, we sit down with Vanessa Hill, host of the YouTube channel Braincraft, and do a little communicating about communication!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
If you want more Vanessa Hill, check out BrainCraft: https://www.youtube.com/user/braincraftvideo
And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Fact Off]
Languages & ecological risk:
Evolved antenna:
https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub-archive/1244h/1244%20(Hornby).pdf
http://www.genetic-programming.org/gecco2004hc/lohn-paper.pdf
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/nmp/st5/ABOUT/about-index.php
Picture of ST5 antenna: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/nmp/st5/TECHNOLOGY/antenna.html
Evolution of antenna: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/2-Sequence-of-evolved-antennas-leading-up-to-antenna-ST5-331427_fig2_226537559
[Ask the Science Couch]
Animal communication:
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test1materials/Animalchart.htm
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/spackled/2009readings/Slobodchikoff%202009.PDF
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1834009/
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150512-birds-hold-the-key-to-language
[Butt One More Thing]
FRTs:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/11/farting-fish-keep-touch
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsbl.2003.0107