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Crowdsourcing site compiles new sign language for math and science

Crowdsourcing site compiles new sign language for math and science | Science News | Scoop.it
A multimedia feature published this week in the New York Times, “Pushing Science’s Limits in Sign Language Lexicon,” outlines efforts in the United States and Europe to develop sign language versions of specialized terms used in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
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Technology that translates sign language into text aims to empower sign language users

Technology that translates sign language into text aims to empower sign language users | Science News | Scoop.it

Technology which translates sign language into text is being developed by scientists in Aberdeen.

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Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols? | Science News | Scoop.it
Previously overlooked patterns in the cave art of southern France and Spain suggest man might have learned written communication 25,000 years earlier than we thought.
Megan Kopke's curator insight, October 31, 2013 4:06 PM

what is considered communication?  how has communication changed from pictographs to arbitrary words.  When does communication also become art, as is the case with cavemen paintings or pictographs, etc.  

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Bees Use Sign Language to Give Hornets the Finger

Bees Use Sign Language to Give Hornets the Finger | Science News | Scoop.it
Honeybees don't just communicate with each other through "sign language". They do the same for predators to warn them off. And it works.
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