Kensy Cooperrider
@kensycoop.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Language, gesture, concepts, time, space, metaphor.
Host of Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
www.kensycooperrider.com
Host of Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
www.kensycooperrider.com
Other volumes of letters folks would recommend? I may be easing into that "mature" stage of reading life...
October 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Other volumes of letters folks would recommend? I may be easing into that "mature" stage of reading life...
Thanks, Molly — it was great having you on the show!
July 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Thanks, Molly — it was great having you on the show!
On the straight-up history side of things, always fun to spend some time browsing the vast History of Cartography—6 volumes all available in PDF form: press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/in...
History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, and Six
press.uchicago.edu
May 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
On the straight-up history side of things, always fun to spend some time browsing the vast History of Cartography—6 volumes all available in PDF form: press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/in...
I've been meaning to check out this one: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
(Mentioned by @kevinlala.bsky.social in our recent podcast interview)
(Mentioned by @kevinlala.bsky.social in our recent podcast interview)
When Maps Become the World
Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized rep...
press.uchicago.edu
May 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I've been meaning to check out this one: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
(Mentioned by @kevinlala.bsky.social in our recent podcast interview)
(Mentioned by @kevinlala.bsky.social in our recent podcast interview)
I did write the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social piece on hand mnemonics!
May 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I did write the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social piece on hand mnemonics!
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Just a sampling from the paper. The key idea is that these tools all help humans "do time"—coordinate, predict, reason, measure, etc. My bigger claim, though, is that these tools ultimately changed our very concept of what time is.
For that, read on…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Just a sampling from the paper. The key idea is that these tools all help humans "do time"—coordinate, predict, reason, measure, etc. My bigger claim, though, is that these tools ultimately changed our very concept of what time is.
For that, read on…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Time Tools
Humans understand time in a way no other animal does. This is not because of our evolved biology, however—it is because we have developed a diverse and powerful toolkit of ideas, practices, and artif...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Just a sampling from the paper. The key idea is that these tools all help humans "do time"—coordinate, predict, reason, measure, etc. My bigger claim, though, is that these tools ultimately changed our very concept of what time is.
For that, read on…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Just a sampling from the paper. The key idea is that these tools all help humans "do time"—coordinate, predict, reason, measure, etc. My bigger claim, though, is that these tools ultimately changed our very concept of what time is.
For that, read on…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Naturally, I also discuss calendars that are a bit closer to contemporary ones. But even within this more familiar genre, there fun texture—e.g., the calendar sticks once common in parts of Scandinavia, or early versions of graphic calendars.
Naturally, I also discuss calendars that are a bit closer to contemporary ones. But even within this more familiar genre, there fun texture—e.g., the calendar sticks once common in parts of Scandinavia, or early versions of graphic calendars.
May 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Naturally, I also discuss calendars that are a bit closer to contemporary ones. But even within this more familiar genre, there fun texture—e.g., the calendar sticks once common in parts of Scandinavia, or early versions of graphic calendars.
Naturally, I also discuss calendars that are a bit closer to contemporary ones. But even within this more familiar genre, there fun texture—e.g., the calendar sticks once common in parts of Scandinavia, or early versions of graphic calendars.
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Cultures often associated larger time chunks (years, eras) with animals or other vivid figures—presumably making the chunks more memorable. This is seen, of course, in the Chinese zodiac. Also found in the Aztec system—the four figures around the central face correspond to four major epochs.
Cultures often associated larger time chunks (years, eras) with animals or other vivid figures—presumably making the chunks more memorable. This is seen, of course, in the Chinese zodiac. Also found in the Aztec system—the four figures around the central face correspond to four major epochs.
May 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Cultures often associated larger time chunks (years, eras) with animals or other vivid figures—presumably making the chunks more memorable. This is seen, of course, in the Chinese zodiac. Also found in the Aztec system—the four figures around the central face correspond to four major epochs.
Cultures often associated larger time chunks (years, eras) with animals or other vivid figures—presumably making the chunks more memorable. This is seen, of course, in the Chinese zodiac. Also found in the Aztec system—the four figures around the central face correspond to four major epochs.