How to Spot a Liar
On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lies can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of "Liespotting," shows the manners and "hotspots" used by those trained to recognize deception -- and she argues honesty is a value worth preserving. (Contains mature content)
How Language Shapes the Way We Think
There
are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have
different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way
we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of
language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal
directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in
Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of
linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how
flexible the human mind is," Boroditsky says. "Human minds have
invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000."
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