Uranus Enters Gemini, Part One

Of Noösphere and Idioglossia — Humans, the Data-Making Animal...

Stolen from the University of Melbourne website.

Dear Friend and Reader:

There’s always a simmering debate about what separates humans from the other animals. Is it opposable thumbs? Is it that humans make tools? Modify the environment? Drive BMWs? Use Pogo Sticks?

Is it the way we communicate?

Are Esperanto or Greek inherently more sophisticated than whal…