Kalyani Tupkary

The design of our calendars — the way we arrange our days, weeks, and months — is a reflection of how we aspire to live our lives

biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, observes that the indigenous Potawatomi language is rich in verb forms that attribute aliveness to the more-than-human world. The word for "hill," for example, is a verb: to be a hill. Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.

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Clock time is not what most people think it is. It was created, and it is frequently altered and adjusted to fit social and political purposes.

Classical scientific definitions of intelligence use humans as a yardstick by which all other species are measured. According to these anthropocentric definitions, humans are always at the top of the intelligence rankings, followed by animals that look like us (chimpanzees, bonobos, etc.), followed again by other "higher" animals, and onward and