http://kensycooperrider.com/blog daily 0.75 2024-10-17 http://kensycooperrider.com/blog/2024/10/17/animals-of-academe monthly 0.5 2024-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bb3f762b8dde105680b465/ca087c41-388c-41e5-a376-e0865a5b507b/iiif-service_gdc_gdcwdl_wd_l__19_52_3_wdl_19523_bsb00077202_00132-full-pct_100-0-default.jpg Kensy Cooperrider's blog - Animals of academe - Make it stand out Some writers have proposed intellectual personality types based on animals. Illustration from the Kalīla wa-Dimna, a book of fables, produced in Egypt between 1500-1699. Image via the Library of Congress (link). http://kensycooperrider.com/blog/why-is-pointing-considered-aggressive monthly 0.5 2024-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bb3f762b8dde105680b465/1639018013692-FIEKNCOJ1P83R923AG5Z/Schlacht_von_Du%CC%88rnkrut_und_Jedenspeigen_19Jh.jpeg Kensy Cooperrider's blog - Why is pointing considered aggressive? - Make it stand out In many cultures, pointing to rainbows was taboo, probably because it was considered an aggressive act toward a sacred, awesome entity. Detail from a 19th century painting (source). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bb3f762b8dde105680b465/1639015785072-SVKZTZK12L8W10ZSCFG5/Figure+%233_Kitchen+debate.001.jpeg Kensy Cooperrider's blog - Why is pointing considered aggressive? - Make it stand out Richard Nixon, then Vice President of the United States, and Nikita Khrushchev, then Soviet First Secretary, during the so-called “Kitchen Debate” of 1959. At several moments during the episode—as Nixon would later recall—the men pointed to each other in an aggressive manner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bb3f762b8dde105680b465/1639016627377-0UHE2SFLJDAQZR2LSKJN/Screen+Shot+2021-12-08+at+6.22.58+PM.png Kensy Cooperrider's blog - Why is pointing considered aggressive? - Make it stand out An image from The Algonquin legends of New England, or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes (1884). It appears to show the legendary character Glooskap turning a man into a tree by pointing his index finger at him. 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The first (left) is the “natural beginnings account”—favored by Darwin and others—in which both signals are grounded in feeding actions. The second (right) is the “antithesis account”—proposed here—in which the headshake is naturally grounded and the head nod derives its meaning by contrast with it. http://kensycooperrider.com/blog/the-triggerfish monthly 0.5 2020-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bb3f762b8dde105680b465/1602002460203-DJVMDXG10NEQQAQO2I60/Black+Triggerfish_Baldwin.jpg Kensy Cooperrider's blog - The triggerfish The black triggerfish of the Hawaiian Islands. Illustration by A. H. 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