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Mar.30.2008
word for the day :: umwelt
German for "environment" / "surrounding world," coined by Jakob Johann von Uexküll (September 8, 1864 - July 25, 1944) to refer to seeing the world from a particular lifeform's p.o.v.   Here, for example, is Baron von Uexküll writing of a tick's umwelt:    ...