Gesturing with our hands and bodies represents “an undercurrent of conversation” that takes place everywhere in parallel to speech, according to Susan Goldin-Meadow, a psychologist and the author of “Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts.”
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Book Review: Launching Capitalism Into Space
Ashlee Vance’s “When the Heavens Went on Sale” chronicles the scramble among profit-seekers and idealists to create a new economy far above the Earth. The focus is on four companies at the heart of the private space sector, and the competing demands of venture capital and military funding.
Book Review: Shattering the Stigma of Menstruation
In “Period,” Kate Clancy investigates the science of menstruation from anthropological, historical, and social justice perspectives, urging readers to examine “the systems that limit us in our understanding of menstruation” and to reevaluate everything we know about this maligned process.
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