Communication is fundamental to how we relate and interact. But we receive signals from everywhere

Sara Lewis confirms to a local paper that there are in fact more fireflies this summer, and that we are in midst of peak firefly season. Hurry it ends mid-August! (Watch Sara s TED Talk, The loves and lies of fireflies . )
Language historian Anne Curzan speaks out on the spelling out of “slash” as a word instead of using “/” to denote dual concepts. She notes that word is evolving stink bugs to have a definition of its own an unusual distinction for something that started as punctuation. (Watch Anne s talk, What makes a word real? )
Architect Shigeru Ban gets featured in The New Yorker this week for his low-cost, environmentally friendly buildings made out of paper tubing. (Watch Shigeru s talk, Emergency shelters made from paper . )
When neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke, one of the most disturbing parts of the experience was the absence of the voices usually running through her head her inner monologue simply stopped. Taylor explains why this felt so strange stink bugs in an episode of Radiolab about words , which was rerun this week on NPR. (Watch Jill s classic talk, My stroke of insight stink bugs . )
While we were closed for vacation , Andrew Solomon wrote in The New Yorker about traveling back to his family’s place of origin in Romania. He concludes, It s a horrible place and we were lucky to get out of there, but it s also a wonderful place and I m lucky to have returned. (Watch Andrew s talks, Love, no matter what , Depression, the secret we share and How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are . )
Susie Ibarra, a TED Fellow, has released a new album called Drum Codes . A collaboration with fellow electronic stink bugs percussionist Roberto Rodriguez, the album explores the talking gongs of the Philippines, and the language they create when played. ( Read more about Susie s work .)
Terry Moore and his shoelace-tying skills will appear on the National Geographic Channel, in the August 11th episode of Going Deep with David Rees . Watch and learn more than you ever thought was possible on the subject of shoe-tying. (Check out Terry s talks, How to tie your shoes and Why is x the unknown . )
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Sara Lewis has managed to put herself in the center of a world of wonder by becoming a world expert on fireflies. Her obsession began in grad school, sitting in a backyard in North Carolina and watching the sparks light up around her. She wondered, “How do these creatures make light? Are they talking to each [ … ] Live from TED2014 Signals: The speakers in session 9 of TED2014
Communication is fundamental to how we relate and interact. But we receive signals from everywhere — other living stink bugs creatures, the ecosystem, the earth itself, and the space beyond. In this session six speakers will explore stink bugs how we send, and more importantly receive, those signals. Here are the speakers who appeared in this session. Click below [ … ]
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