Calling from Gmail now in 38 languages, with lower rates to over 150 destinations

Call anywhere in the world with super low rates — right from within Gmail, at www.gmail.com/call. We’re always trying to make it easier for people to connect—whether that means sending an email, chatting or video chatting, you can reach the people you care about from right inside Gmail. Last year, we made it possible for those of you in the U.S. to call any mobile phone or landline directly from Gmail and starting today, we are making this available to many more of you who use Gmail outside the U.S. by offering calling in 38 new languages. (...) Know more at http://goo.gl/J2mZc.

Google Translate welcomes you to the Indic web

Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, we’ve launched a total of 11 alpha languages, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate to 63. (...). Read the entire publication at http://goo.gl/pdzLw.

 

The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization

The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. “I think, therefore I am,” is an example of (…). Know more at http://goo.gl/3QlKq.