Kalyani Tupkary

They're tall. They're totally absurd. And they're everywhere.

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

Time isn’t like the other senses, Eagleman says. Sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing are relatively easy to isolate in the brain. They have discrete functions that rarely overlap: it’s hard to describe the taste of a sound, the color of a smell, or the scent of a feeling. … But a sense of time is threaded through everything we perceive. 

The story of Hvaldimir is, in no small part, about the longing between people and a curious animal to get to know one another, and about the transformations that can result. Why not advocate for  more  interaction between humans and animals, when they naturally and safely occur?

Like so many botanical concepts, the flower clock originated with the Swedish ur-taxonomist Carl Linnaeus, in his 1751 treatise “Philosophia Botanica.” Based on field observations, he divided flowers into three categories. The meteorici open and close with the weather. The tropici follow the changing hours of daylight. And the aequinoctales,