New Scientist? Can’t be. I saw no references to global warming in the article about speech and hand patterns. That mag has become almost as clownish as Gore. I cancelled my subscription a while ago... since there seems to be no longer any relationship between the magazine and real science.
Isn't that funny. Wouldn't the real question then be: Why do some languages force people to speak in a way that goes against how their brains work?
True syntactical differences exist between languages. Word order is hardly a true difference. Native speakers of Finnish make top rate database programmers, which right away should key somebody to the possibility that something is going on.
Eat cheese mice do.