Ingenial » africa http://ingenial.com A collaborative weblog highlighting interesting trends in liberal arts and technology. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:42:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 The Origin of Languages http://ingenial.com/699 http://ingenial.com/699#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:52:23 +0000 Ric Bruce http://ingenial.com/?p=699 Is there a single source that all spoken languages on earth share in common? Maybe. A new study in linguistics by Dr. Quentin D. Atkinson, a biologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand shows that languages may have originated from a common “seed.” The study seems to correspond with what biologists have proven about genetic code: that the further from South Africa people traveled while populating the world the more of their genetic code and, possibly, their language people lost. It’s an interesting theory. One that, if it bears out in further tests, will change the way we see linguistics forever. Read the full article at the New York Times.

]]> http://ingenial.com/699/feed 0 How to feed the world http://ingenial.com/306 http://ingenial.com/306#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:44:14 +0000 Micah Goulart http://ingenial.com/?p=306 Brilliant infographic film targeted to kids but chock full of information.

How to feed the world ?

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