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The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation has 22,000 students — 1,500 of them are from outside the United States, including more than 40 countries and a plethora of languages.

Way back when there were no cell phones, lovers used flowers as coded messages to keep their communications unknown to chaperones.

Do we learn gestures by watching others make them? Or do our patterns of gesture originate from language itself?

Today, we're talking about talking, and parrots, which can learn to talk, and is why studying the way parrots vocalize can help scientists better understand the way humans vocalize. If you think about it, bird song and talking have a lot in common.

Researchers think that the first steps in the creation of a sign language likely resemble a game of charades. According to one study, it only takes five generations of learners for a pantomime to become a stable sign.

On today's Moment of Science we're going to perform a little experiment in order to learn a little bit about the motor cortex--a strip of tissue running from ear to ear across the surface of the brain that is responsible for controlling voluntary movement.

A variety of characteristics are used to diagnose autism in children. Often, it's poor social and communication skills which others observe in children that compel parents to get a child tested. There are currently no unique biological indicators of autism.