Myths of Sign Language Debunked

Lisa R. Parker

Myth One: Sign language is just gestures. It’s not a language at all. There is evidence that early humans started communicating in gestures. Later, the gestures developed into a proto language and then a full-blown language. Spoken language could have been developed in a similar fashion. For example, different grunts […]

What Makes a Good Translation?

Lisa R. Parker

There’s of course no absolute answer as to what makes a “good” or “bad” translation. In some sense, a good translation is one that can be done to the available budget whilst fulfilling its purpose. However, there are occasions when text quality is the prevailing factor: a well written, readily […]

The Renaissance and Synergetic Environmental Science

Lisa R. Parker

Buckminster Fuller and Sir C P Snow warned that the existing unbalanced understanding of the second law of thermodynamics was accelerating civilisation toward global disaster. To prevent that disaster, modern science needed to be reunited with the Classical Greek Era’s Humanities’ life science. A question arises, is it possible for […]

Biospheres: Reproducing Planet Earth

Lisa R. Parker

Dorion Sagan’s 1990 paperback Biospheres: Reproducing Planet Earth (McGraw-Hill Publishing, ISBN 0-553-28883-0) does more than deliver a unique vision of the planet’s life support system. It also challenges the traditional view of humanity as the dominant feature of life on Earth. Perhaps that is no less than should be expected […]