{"id":1835,"date":"2016-02-29T23:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T07:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2016-02-29T23:32:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T07:32:37","slug":"connecting-the-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/connecting-the-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Murray_OED_vocabulary_types_diagram.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1841\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Murray_OED_vocabulary_types_diagram.svg_.png\" alt=\"Diagram of the types of English vocabulary included in the OED, devised by James Murray, its first editor.\" width=\"390\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Murray_OED_vocabulary_types_diagram.svg_.png 390w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Murray_OED_vocabulary_types_diagram.svg_-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Connecting the Dots: Making Meaning of the World\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>@Hammer Museum,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">How do knowledge systems such as the\u00a0<em>Oxford English Dictionary\u00a0<\/em>conform to or change the way our brains function? Why are humans driven to categorize the world? National Book Award finalist\u00a0James Gleick\u00a0(<em>The Information:\u00a0<\/em><em>a History, a Theory, a Flood<\/em>) and\u00a0Lera Boroditsky, UCSD professor of cognitive science\u2014who researches the relationships between mind, body, world, and language\u2014discuss the history and future potential of these ideas. Moderated by\u00a0Margaret Wertheim,\u00a0science writer\u00a0(<em>The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Physics on the Fringe)\u00a0<\/em>and codirector of the Institute For Figuring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This program is in conjunction with\u00a0<em>Hollywood is a Verb<\/em>, a citywide, monthlong initiative of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Public Library, looking at the<em>\u00a0Oxford English Dictionary<\/em>\u00a0through a contemporary Southern California lens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Event date\/time:<\/strong>\u00a0Thursday March 3, 2016, 7:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hammer.ucla.edu\/programs-events\/2016\/03\/connecting-the-dots-making-meaning-of-the-world\/\">Hammer event website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Image credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Diagram of the types of English vocabulary included in the first edition of the OED, devised by its editor James Murray. Courtesy Wikipedia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Connecting the Dots: Making Meaning of the World\u00a0 @Hammer Museum,\u00a0 How do knowledge systems such as the\u00a0Oxford English Dictionary\u00a0conform to or change the way our brains function? Why are humans driven to categorize the world? National Book Award finalist\u00a0James Gleick\u00a0(The Information:\u00a0a History, a Theory, a Flood) and\u00a0Lera Boroditsky, UCSD professor of cognitive science\u2014who researches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}