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 In the 17th century, the Japanese shoguns decided that the only Westerners allowed to trade with the Japanese empire, would be the Dutch. By doing so they not only opened up their country to sugar, cotton and silk, they also unintentionally exposed the Japanese language to Dutch words and terminology. Many Dutch naval terms and words [...] This is the introduction of a guest post which I wrote for Hannah from the award winning blog Culturing Science. She writes great posts on ecology, evolution and science (communication) itself, so go and check out some of her writings! Just below the surface of the sea, little animals are floating through a universe where [...]  A few days ago, Colin Schultz proposed to do an experiment to investigate to what degree scientific terms used in scientific news can form barriers to understanding by laypersons. Colin suggested to go through a science story and list all scientific terms that “might be a road block to an interested reader’s understanding”. Instead of following [...]  On the evening of June 5 in 1990, six fishermen prepared a meal of baked fish, boiled rice, boiled potatoes and boiled blue mussels that they had harvested themselves off the coast of Nantucket. An hour after finishing the meal, their mouths started to tingle. Their face, arms, legs and tongue soon went numb. These [...] I’ve got a guest post up at Scientific American! It’s a post about the evolution of some asexual animals, who managed to have survived for millions of years without having sex. Or did they … ? This really was an amazing opportunity so a huge thanks goes out to Bora for giving young bloggers like [...]  Different cultures around the world have sought to explain the multitude of human languages. In the Bible you can find the story of the Tower of Babel, set in a time when all of humanity spoke one language. The unity that this common language instilled allowed these people to do great things. But when they [...] |
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