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This is the Science Podcast for March 31st, 2023. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week, what did people 1000 years ago, think about 5,000 year old Stonehenge or about a disused Maya temple, smack dab in the middle of the neighborhood. Contributing correspondent Lizzie Wade joins me to discuss how Mesoamerica sites are revealing new ways that ruins were incorporated into past people's lives. Next up a segment from the AAAS meeting on Reading Science and Braille.
Yeah. I talked to one anthropologist who's Yucatec Maya, and he likes this idea of trying to respect and understand how communities engage with these older places over time. But he doesn't really like the word ruins for them because it sort of implies something that's dead, that's over, fits in with this like lost city idea of a lot of western archeology and Mesoamerica, which was part of that history of not seeing these things of places that were connected to living communities.
Oh sure. It was definitely the highlight of my AAAS Annual Meeting this week. There's a lot here and there were two other people on the panel we should mention and I really hope there's a recording that folks can check out at a later date. But for now, let's get into some of these things I've touched on.
E-D, exactly. [laughter] Those can actually cross these boundaries that we're used to respecting with the way we chunk sounds, which I thought was really interesting, 'cause my daughter is an 8-year-old and she's learning sound chunks when she's learning to read.What you're talking about. When you're talking about sound chunks are what we call morphemes, and a morpheme is a basic pairing between form and meaning.
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