Podcast: Searching for a lost Maya city, and measuring the information density of language
This week’s show starts with Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade, who spent 12 days with archaeologists searching for a lost Maya city in the Chiapas wilderness in Mexico. She talks with host Sarah Crespi about how you lose a city—and how you might go about finding one.
And Sarah talks with Christophe Coupé , an associate professor in the department of linguistics at the University of Hong Kong in China, about the information density of different languages. His work, published this week in Science Advances , suggests very different languages—from Chinese to Japanese to English and French— are all equally efficient at conveying information .
This week’s episode was edited by Podigy .
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[Image: Lizzie Wade/ Science ; Music: Jeffrey Cook]