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Were like 7000000000 people and we speak 7000. 00 languages. We need language for communication, but is language in that sense kind of preventing communication rather than facilitating it. I mean, since every language cost to some sort of a private club thats more or less outsiders. Right. Right. Thats always been one conception of language, is that collectively that people that speak a language, even a very its a little bit from person to person. You can think of as a kind of cultural artifact ...

SOUTH HADLEY — The only contested race during this year’s town election saw a longtime incumbent and a brand-new candidate elected to the Municipal Light Board.There were three candidates running for two, three-year terms up on the board, which...

SOUTH HADLEY — With town elections approaching on April 12, the only contested races in South Hadley are for two seats on the Municipal Light Board.When voters cast their ballots next month, they’ll be voting on 13 townwide seats: one on the Select...

>> Sabrina Imbler, The New York Times Published: 09 Mar 2021 11:45 AM BdST Updated: 09 Mar 2021 11:45 AM BdST An exhibit shows the life of a neanderthal family in a cave in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern town of Krapina February 25, 2010. REUTERS/Nikola Solic If you were somehow able to travel back in time some 130,000 years and chance upon a Neanderthal, you might find yourself telling them about some of humanity’s greatest inventions, such as spanakopita and TikTok. The Neande...

Neanderthals Listened to the World Much Like Us A reconstructed Neanderthal ear adds a new piece to the puzzle of whether the early humans could speak. To begin to figure out whether Neanderthals could talk, researchers studied fossilized ear bones, to reconstruct how and what our early ancestors heard.Credit...The Natural History Museum, London/Science Source By Sabrina Imbler March 1, 2021 If you were somehow able to travel back in time some 130,000 years and chance upon a Neanderthal, you mi...