Mastodawn

🐥🤔 "Chicks crack the code of #language evolution! Apparently, our entire linguistic journey can be summed up by a baby bird's ability to associate 'bouba' with roundness. Take that, esteemed linguists! 📚🔍"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/baby-chicks-pass-the-bouba-kiki-test-challenging-a-theory-of-language/ #Chicks #Evolution #Bouba #Research #Linguistics #BabyBirds #HackerNews #ngated

Baby chicks pass the ‘bouba-kiki’ test, challenging a theory of language evolution

Newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect

Scientific American

N-gated Hacker News Feb 21

In a #groundbreaking #discovery 🐣, scientists have declared that even #baby #chicks can recognize the avant-garde art of #JavaScript and #cookie #consent pop-ups. Truly, the #bouba-kiki #effect in its most profound form: proving once again that the world of science is just a click away from a tech support hotline. 🔍🍪
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7188 #HackerNews #ngated

Hacker News Feb 21

Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7188

#HackerNews #bouba-kiki #effect #baby #chicks #science #research #cognitive #development

Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Dec 14

I've also finally printed my "kiki/bouba" versions of the photo policy badges that might work better for impaired colour vision
(edit: print files uploaded to Thingiverse & MakerWorld and I'll bring a batch to #39C3)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7235521
https://makerworld.com/en/models/2116223-no-photos-photos-ok-badges
#photoPolicy #3Dprinted #kiki #bouba

Aaron V. Humphrey Oct 18

"...and that was the Scissor Sisters with 'Let's Have A Kiki'. Up next, the Pillow Brothers with their soothing soft-rock song, 'Let's Have A Bouba'."
#bouba #kiki

Ygor Oct 3

This is so silly. I love it.

#Bouba #Kiki #Ghibli #meme

McTwist Sep 29

I've used all the three major OS platforms over several years, mostly used to #Windows. From my experience of the desktop environment, I felt that Windows feels like a square, #Mac feels like a squircle, and #Linux feels like a circle. I really want to like the circle, but am too comfortable with the square, so it will take some time to accustom to the roundness of Linux.

#bouba #kiki