Today is National Walking Day! Among living primates, humans are the only obligate bipeds. Our ancestors started walking upright by around 6 million years ago, and our lineage gradually evolved several features to make us great walkers. Locomotion went from occasional walking while still climbing trees until about 2 million years ago, when we start to see the features of adaptations to obligate bipedalism. 

Hinduism is filled with a myriad of colorful holidays, but today we celebrate the most colorful of them all: Holi!

Known literally as the “Festival of Colors,” Holi is a national spring holiday famous for the throwing of colored powders and water. Though the legends behind its origin vary, and some Hindu communities invariably prefer one story over the other, the messages of goodness, renewal, and love are always the same. Thus filled with a vibrant and joyous mood, it’s also incredibly popular outside of the country, celebrated throughout the world by people of all nationalities, religions, and backgrounds.

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