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Episodes

How the arts help homeless youth heal and build | Malika Whitley

03 May 2018

How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky | TED

02 May 2018

14m

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Lera Boroditsky discusses how language shapes thought, highlighting the diversity of cognitive universes created by the world's 7,000 languages. She uses examples from different cultures, such as the Kuuk Thaayorre people who use cardinal directions instead of left and right, and the varying ways languages categorize c...