How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille

<p><em>On this week’s show: How people in the past thought about their own past, and a detailed look at how Braille is read</em></p> <p> </p> <p>First up this week, what did people 1000 years ago think about 5000-year-old Stonehenge? Or about a disused Maya temple smack dab in the middle of the neighborhood? Contributing Correspondent <a href="https://www.lizziewade.com/">Lizzie Wade</a> joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how Mesoamerican sites are revealing new ways that ruins were incorporated into past peoples’ lives.</p> <p> </p> <p>Next up on this week’s show is a segment from the AAAS meeting on <a href="https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Session/30006">reading science and Braille</a>. We hear from <a href="https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/">Robert Englebretson</a>, an associate professor of linguistics at Rice University, about filling in a gap in reading science research when it comes to how Braille is read, written, and learned.</p> <p> </p> <p>This week’s episode was produced with help from <a href="https://podigy.co/">Podigy</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast">About the <em>Science</em> Podcast</a></p> <p> </p> <p>[Image: S. Crespi/<em>Science</em>; Music: Jeffrey Cook]</p> <p> </p> <p>[alt: Maya building with podcast overlay]</p> <p> </p> <p>Authors: Sarah Crespi; Lizzie Wade</p> <p> </p> <p>Episode page: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi0106">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi0106</a></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>