Biological and behavioral description and analysis of human senses in ecologically relevant circumstances
Optatianus Porfyrius early in the 4th century used word, image, & scale of address in a carmen cancellatum (gridded poem) to bring enlightenment to Roman men. … Read the post carmen cancellatum of Optatianus Porfyrius: words weren’t enough
The travel account of Antoninus of Piacenza is factual in ways completely inconsistent with modern practices of distinguishing between fact and fiction. … Read the post Antoninus of Piacenza's strange sense in the Holy Land
Shipwreck beggars in ancient Rome used pictures. Pictures might have identified a beggar cross-linguistically as being particularly worthy of sympathy. … Read the post shipwreck beggars: popular pictorial communication in ancient Rome
The Smithsonian Museum of American History holds the piece of rock that Lewis Bradford at 4:15 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1830, chipped off the Plymouth Rock. … Read the post Smithsonian Museum: the matter of history
Communication between organisms is best understood as ongoing behavioral interactions of a particular formal type within a particular time frame. … Read the post system, not signals, for biological analysis of communication