Tag: Navigation

  • Nation & World

    The greatest migration

    The peopling of Polynesia’s far-flung islands may be the most epic migration story of all time. Harvard Review Editor Christina Thompson’s book “Sea People” examines the latest evidence of who the Polynesians were and how they did it.

    9 minutes
    Christina Thompson at the Peabody Museum.
  • Nation & World

    A better sense of place

    Alyssa Goodman, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, will give a talk titled “Lost Without Longitude” on Thursday at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Here to there

    On Friday, leaders in the field of navigation converged on Radcliffe’s annual science symposium to discuss findings in everything from brain science to animal navigation to the psychology of how a lost person behaves — which can give rescuers important cues about where to look.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A higher plane

    Research by scientists in Elizabeth Spelke’s lab suggests our innate understanding of abstract geometry has origins in the evolutionary past.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Finding our way

    Elizabeth Spelke, a professor of psychology, discussed research on how humans develop navigational skills in an event at the Barker Center.

    2 minutes
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    A possible aid for navigators

    John Huth, the creator of the popular “Primitive Navigation” course, spent most of last summer investigating a mysterious phenomenon called “underwater lightning,” which some say can be used as a navigational tool.

    5 minutes