Thursday, February 24, 2011

When Hand-waving Makes for Good Scientific Discussion

Ever wonder what sign language interpreters do when they run across technical and scientific terms in presentations? There's an article in New Scientist about inventing signs on the fly. Ferris Jabr wrote the piece this week while attending the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, D.C. Read the article here.