Arctic people are very skilled at using the materials available to them. Look at how many things can be made from one caribou (wild reindeer).

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Getting inside dough is not just a child's fantasy!

In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak 

Unless we eventually exist as brains in jars - living a totally virtual existence - materials will always matter.

Brilliant book...

Why things don't fall down.....

The dry world of virtuality and the wet world of biology merge.