Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
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A curious legal crusade to redefine personhood is raising profound questions about the interdependence of the animal and human kingdoms.
Lawrence-wright • The Elephant in the Courtroom
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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... See moreThey're tall. They're totally absurd. And they're everywhere.
Joseph Stromberg • The bizarre history of cellphone towers disguised as trees
The sun makes days, seasons, and years, and the moon makes months, but people invented weeks. What makes a Tuesday a Tuesday, and why does it come, so remorselessly, every seven days? A week is mostly made up.
