Bookmarks (113)

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    Greetings from Green Bank – the small town where modern technology is banned | Aeon Videos

    For ‘wifi refugees’, a small Appalachian town built around a massive telescope has become a rare...

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    Ravensbrück to papal advisor, the life of Wanda Półtawska | Aeon Essays

    Her closeness to Pope John Paul furnished him with anti-abortion ideals, fuelled by her survival of...

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    What makes John Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ so enduringly powerful? | Aeon Videos

    In his masterpiece, Keats contrasts the ephemerality of life with the eternal beauty of art to...

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    The 1970s librarians who revolutionised the challenge of search | Aeon Essays

    A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed...

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    How the fear of being duped makes you an anxious sucker | Aeon Essays

    The fear of being duped is ubiquitous, but excessive scepticism makes it harder to trust one...

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    Far from frivolous, cuteness is a powerful – and still mysterious – force of nature | Aeon Videos

    Cuteness overload! What makes us want to touch, pinch and squeeze adorable creatures is still a...

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    On class and the perils of the new norms of intimacy | Aeon Essays

    The sexual revolution promised new norms of intimacy based on egalitarianism. So far, only the rich...

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    How a Noh mask-maker summons a lifelike face from a single block of wood | Aeon Videos

    Watch as a traditional artisan of Noh masks cuts, carves and paints an eerily lifelike human...

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    Why the Age of Revolution loved the classical world | Aeon Essays

    Radicals in the Age of Revolution saw the classical world as a common inheritance that could...

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    On a whirlwind morning, a couple learns if they’re facing an unplanned pregnancy | Aeon Videos

    Two filmmakers, awaiting the result of a pregnancy test, take turns recording their experiences in this...

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    Contemporary art is made out of rules that mobilise us to act | Aeon Essays

    Conceptual art often confounds. The key is to understand the rules of the artwork and the...

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    Why Jacques Derrida was fascinated by secret Jewishness | Aeon Essays

    Jacques Derrida was fascinated by the figure of the Marrano Jew, whose identity could barely be...

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    What wine vessels reveal about politics and luxury in ancient Athens and Persia | Aeon Videos

    War and wine: how decadent Persian wine vessels were given a playful, dynamic makeover in the...

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    David Goldblatt captured the contradictions of apartheid in stark black and white | Aeon Videos

    How the celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt captured apartheid’s contradictions in stark black and white...

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    How to mourn a forest: a lesson from West Papua | Aeon Essays

    The Marind people of West Papua deploy mourning not only to grieve their animal and plant...

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    Do we have good reasons to believe in beliefs? A radical philosophy of mind says no | Aeon Videos

    Should we believe in beliefs? A radical philosophy of mind says its time to ditch such...

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    Time is not an illusion. It’s an object with physical size | Aeon Essays

    Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can...

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    In the search for life, might alien ocean worlds be a better bet than Earth-like planets? | Aeon Videos

    What if massive ocean worlds – ‘Hycean’ planets – are a better bet in the search...

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    The distinctive paradox of Swedish individualism | Aeon Essays

    All countries must balance the freedom of individuals with the demands of the community. Sweden’s solution...

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    How a devout Catholic philosopher approaches the problem of evil | Aeon Videos

    How can an all-powerful, all-loving god allow suffering in the world? A Catholic philosopher explains the...

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    How philosophy’s obsession with language unravelled | Aeon Essays

    Analytic and continental philosophers were once united in their obsession with language. But now new questions...

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    When drawing your muse hundreds of times becomes an exercise in love | Aeon Videos

    The intimacy that developed between an artist and his muse over hundreds of sittings is an...

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    Medicine or poison? When Buddhist compassion goes too far | Aeon Essays

    After an abuse scandal destroyed my Buddhist community, I had to reconsider what it means to...

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    Sulking is a fascinating form of indirect communication | Aeon Essays

    Full of implicit rules and paradoxes, sulking is a marvellous example of intense communication without clear...

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    Is simulation theory a way to shirk responsibility for the world we’ve created? | Aeon Videos

    Amid ecological catastrophe, is the rise of simulation theory just a way to find ‘solace in...

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    Science is not the only form of knowledge but it is the best | Aeon Essays

    Science is not the only form of knowledge but it is the best, being the most...

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    A dazzling slice-by-slice exploration of wood exposes hidden patterns and hues | Aeon Videos

    A mesmerising music video uses innovative stop-motion animation to reveal, slice-by-slice, the patterns and hues in...

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    Should we abandon the idea that cancer is something to ‘fight’? | Aeon Essays

    Is it time to abandon the century-old idea that cancer is best met with a ‘fight’...

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    In Rwanda, Sébastien finds traces of personal history in the wake of national tragedy | Aeon Videos

    When Sébastien finally meets his father and travels to his native Rwanda, he finds the answers...

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    Why is it possible to feel a presence without sensory cues? | Aeon Essays

    The spooky sensation that someone or something else is right there haunts us all. But what...

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    Leaf through Shakespeare’s First Folio for a riveting journey into theatre history | Aeon Videos

    The 400-year-old book that first collected Shakespeare’s plays will take you on a riveting journey through...

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    Dogs on India’s streets can be freer and happier than many pets | Aeon Essays

    These canines have independent, peaceful, happy lives without a pet’s constraints. Why are they being persecuted...

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    A decade after his wife was swept away in a tsunami, Yasuo still searches the sea | Aeon Videos

    In a poignant portrait of grief and the strength it can inspire, Yasuo searches the sea...

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    From the Cynics’ self-sufficiency to an ecology of wanking | Aeon Essays

    The ancient Cynics taught that masturbation is about more than pleasure: it suggests how to live...

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    Modern architecture should embrace – not ignore or repel – the nonhuman world | Aeon Videos

    Why architects should take inspiration from the sustainable ways that animals build, and integrate wildlife into...

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    Why we need a new expression of the sacred: a pagan theology | Aeon Essays

    Now is the time to revitalise our relationship with nature and immerse ourselves in the little...

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    Monist philosophy and quantum physics agree that all is One | Aeon Essays

    The ancient philosophy of monism and the physics of quantum entanglement agree: all that exists is...

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    The strange tale of how mangoes became hallowed objects in Maoist China | Aeon Videos

    Why did Maoist mango mania grip China in the 1960s? Animating the history of the Cultural...

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    The swing has a universal history of transgression | Aeon Essays

    Now associated with childhood fun, the swing has a near-universal history of ritual transgression and transformation...

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    We may never settle the ‘free will’ debate, but tapping into it is still worthwhile | Aeon Videos

    Investigating where the ‘free will’ debate currently stands, from the vantage of neuroscience, physics and moral...

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    A meditation on irritation, a feeling in search of causes | Aeon Essays

    Unlike anger, irritation has neither glamour nor radicalism on its side. Yet it might just be...

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    In an ancient English rainforest, John creates charcoal and cultivates growth | Aeon Videos

    With a deep view of time, a regenerative forester extracts resources to cultivate growth in an...

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    Discretion is hard to live with, even harder to live without | Aeon Essays

    When the rules break down, you must judge what to do on your own. Discretion is...

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    Mapping data visualisation’s meteoric rise from Victorian London to today | Aeon Videos

    Once considered fanciful, today data visualisation charts, and changes, our world. But it can misinform as...

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    Can the liquid motion of the octopus radicalise our ideas about time? | Aeon Essays

    We humans are forward-facing, gravity-bound plodders. Can the liquid motion of the octopus radicalise our ideas...

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    An enigmatic ‘story of consciousness’ told through 19th-century engravings | Aeon Videos

    From flowers to teapots to amphibians, hundreds of 19th-century engravings form a dizzying contemplation of consciousness...

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    The scorched-earth iconoclasm of the historian Paul Veyne | Aeon Essays

    The iconoclastic French historian Paul Veyne illuminated the past by showing how deeply alien it is...

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    Join the spirited debate at a women’s hair salon before a pivotal election in Tunisia | Aeon Videos

    On the eve of a pivotal presidential election in Tunisia, women at a hair salon debate...

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    Why poetry is a variety of mathematical experience | Aeon Essays

    Machine learning theory is shedding new light on how to think about the mysterious and ineffable...

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    Why we must abandon the ‘vegetative state’ diagnosis | Aeon Essays

    Cruel and unscientific, the ‘vegetative state’ diagnosis stems from a hierarchical and bigoted view of all...