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    People around the world like the same kinds of smells
    Joseph Shavit
    • Apr 5

    People around the world like the same kinds of smells

    What smells we like or dislike is primarily shared by people regardless of cultural background, according to researchers in Sweden and UK.
    Can we tell someone's cultural group from the way they laugh?
    Joseph Shavit
    • Nov 16, 2021

    Can we tell someone's cultural group from the way they laugh?

    Can we infer someone's cultural group from their laugher, even when we do not know what they are laughing at?
    How do you map the infinitude of colors to a discrete number of words?
    Joshua Shavit
    • Oct 4, 2021

    How do you map the infinitude of colors to a discrete number of words?

    No language has words for all the blues of a wind-churned sea or the greens and golds of a wildflower meadow in late summer.

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