~aeon | Bookmarks (102)
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What makes a person poor and what should we do about it? | Aeon Essays
By understanding the pernicious myths surrounding poverty, we can make progress towards a lofty goal: dignity...
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Villagers struggle to keep their beloved, endangered ape population afloat | Aeon Videos
Humans are both the gravest threat and the greatest hope for the survival of the rare...
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When it comes to pornography, what’s the harm in looking? | Aeon Essays
Moral panics about erotica have coursed through the country’s history. Why do so many Americans think...
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Radical doodles – how ‘exquisite corpse’ games embodied the Surrealist movement | Aeon Videos
A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom,...
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Investigating the roots of the natural/supernatural dichotomy | Aeon Essays
The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really...
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Why Susan listens to recordings of herself speaking a language she no longer remembers | Aeon Videos
In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking...
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Why does the world have such an intense stake in Israel/Palestine? | Aeon Essays
More than any other conflict, Israel/Palestine has provoked extraordinarily fervent emotion throughout the world. Why? -...
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What Amazonian lives tell us about heart health and longevity | Aeon Essays
Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane...
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Plato saw little value in privacy. How do his ideas hold up in the information age? | Aeon Videos
Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view,...
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Rilke and the art of listening as a way to shape the cosmos | Aeon Essays
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening...
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Starlings swoosh like brushstrokes across the sky in this dazzling short | Aeon Videos
A filmmaker collaborates with a murmuration of starlings to create spellbinding visuals at the intersection of...
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The case for subspecies – the neglected unit of conservation | Aeon Essays
To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences...
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‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph | Aeon Videos
Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in...
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Pundits and historians declare neoliberalism over: Mexico begs to differ | Aeon Essays
The case of Mexico shows that, despite a proliferating discourse that it is over, neoliberalism is...
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The neglected ‘laws’ of chemistry – and why they matter | Aeon Essays
Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate...
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From simple motors to levitating trains – how design shapes innovation | Aeon Videos
An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to...
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Why Brazil fell for Pentecostalism but not liberation theology | Aeon Essays
How Pentecostalism’s prosperity gospel replaced Catholic liberation theology in Latin American life - by Elle Hardy...
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How an artist transformed a dilapidated hunting lodge into a house made of dreams | Aeon Videos
Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum,...
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I am a better therapist since I let go of therapeutic theory | Aeon Essays
For twenty years, I was a practising psychotherapist. Today I believe it has no foundation in...
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Are zoos and natural history museums born of a desire to understand, or to control? | Aeon Videos
What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about...
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Before you define fiction, check your metaphysical assumptions | Aeon Essays
What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand...
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If you ask ‘Why?’, you’re a philosopher, and you’re awesome | Aeon Essays
Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make...
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What’s an ancient Greek brick doing in a Sumerian city? An archeological investigation | Aeon Videos
A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single...
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The French modernists loathed and loved the mass media of their day | Aeon Essays
How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of...