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Kids who liked Disney cartoons gave hugs for no reason, and believed everything would work out fine. Looney Tunes kids might hit you just for standing there, and were waiting for something else to go wrong.
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Follow me to Pormpuraaw, a small Aboriginal community on the western edge of Cape York, in northern Australia. I came here because of the way the locals, the Kuuk Thaayorre, talk about space. Instead of words like “right,” “left,” “forward,” and “back,” which, as commonly used in English, define space relative to an observer, the Kuuk Thaayorre, like many other Aboriginal groups, use cardinal-direction terms — north, south, east, and west — to define space.1 This is done at all scales, which means you have to say things like “There’s an ant on your southeast leg” or “Move the cup to the north northwest a little bit.” One obvious consequence of speaking such a language is that you have to stay oriented at all times, or else you cannot speak properly. The normal greeting in Kuuk Thaayorre is “Where are you going?” and the answer should be something like ” Southsoutheast, in the middle distance.” If you don’t know which way you’re facing, you can’t even get past “Hello.
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Pina Bausch (via vangst)
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Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States: Report Home Page The most comprehensive, authoritative report on Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States was released on Tuesday June…
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