The Cane and Rinse podcast was recently voted one of the top gaming podcasts in UK newspaper Metro. In this Issue Leon, Tony, James Carter and Josh Garrity go to town on Michel Ancelâs lush platformer Rayman Origins, as well as taking a fairly comprehensive look at the Ubisoft franchiseâs history.
http://podcast.co.uk/cane-and-rise-podcast-issue-twenty-rayman-origins/
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Humans evolved a brain with an extraordinary knack for language, but just how and when we began using language is still largely a mystery. Early human communication may have been in sign language or song, and scientists are studying other animals to learn how human language evolved.
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Brain Science Podcast #30 is a discussion of Christine Kenneally’s book, The First Word: The Search for the Origin of Language.This episode concentrates on the emergence of the study of language evolution (evolutionary linguistics) from an area of area of inquiry that was banned in the 19th century to one that is flourishing and benefiting from new evidence from fields as diverse as genetics and studies in animal communication.
The search for the origins of species has entailed a series of great adventures over the past 200 years. Biologist and author Sean B. Carroll will chronicle the exploits of a group of explorers who walked where no one had walked, saw what no one had seen, and thought what no one else had thought. Their achievements sparked a revolution that changed, profoundly and forever, our perception of the living world and our place within it.
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How did our universe begin? How did galaxies, stars and planets form? How did life begin and was there ever life on Mars? Why are we here? Jon Stewart investigates the big questions of the cosmos.
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