Lost and Found

Check out this RadioLab episode, which is about how we spatially orient ourselves. In one part, psycholinguist Lera Borditsky talks of time spent in an Australian aboriginal community where one's 'heading' is key to cultural consciousness. To say 'hello', one would ask "which way are you going?", a question to which the appropriate answer would be something like "north northeast in the middle distance, how about you?"