Bookmarks (106)

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    Why aren’t children protected from their parents monetising them? | Aeon Essays

    We have laws to protect children from factory work. Why aren’t they protected from parents who...

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    How an ancient polymath first calculated Earth’s size, as told by Carl Sagan | Aeon Videos

    Carl Sagan explains how, with just ‘sticks, eyes, feet and brains’, an ancient Greek polymath first...

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    Here’s to reviving the ancient practice of silvopasture | Aeon Essays

    This ancient practice, nurturing animals and trees in an ecological system, fights climate change and restores...

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    Beware the Nalujuit! A rare glimpse into a chilling Labrador Inuit tradition | Aeon Videos

    They appear from the sea ice – the eerie tradition celebrated by the Labrador Inuit people...

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    What the controversial letters of Plato reveal about us | Aeon Essays

    Scholars cannot agree whether the letters of Plato are fake or genuine. Is this just a...

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    Artificial ‘creativity’ is unstoppable. Grappling with its ethics is up to us | Aeon Videos

    If all artists take inspiration from previous artists’ work, does AI art really pose a new...

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    Lydia Maria Child and the vexed role of the woman abolitionist | Aeon Essays

    Taking up arms against slavery, the famous novelist foreshadowed the vexed role of the white woman...

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    How should we understand the weird experience of coincidence? | Aeon Essays

    I am an unequivocal rationalist and yet I still want to see something strange and wonderful...

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    Refined towards imperfection – a ceramic artist recreates a rare Korean treasure | Aeon Videos

    From clay to ceramic, making a Korean moon jar is a meticulous process that reflects ancient...

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    For some, it’s only when school stops that learning starts | Aeon Essays

    It takes nerve to go against the grain and take your child out of school. But,...

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    Through a poetic account of childhood trauma, one woman reclaims her past | Aeon Videos

    ‘Reclaiming myself and my image’ – one woman’s powerful, lyrical meditation on childhood trauma and personal...

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    The philosophical legacy of Alexandre Kojève | Aeon Essays

    Alexandre Kojève was an immense influence on many French thinkers. What was so compelling about his...

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    ‘Without a poster, you don’t exist!’ – on the curious political banners of Mumbai | Aeon Videos

    A slice-of-life documentary on Mumbai’s curious poster politics offers a wry commentary on self-image in the...

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    Why are most of us stuck with a belief in the soul? | Aeon Essays

    The idea of the soul is obviously a nonsense, yet its immaterial mysterious nature has deep...

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    On Roman Charity, or a woman’s filial debt to the patriarchy | Aeon Essays

    Since antiquity, artists have depicted a perverse scene of a daughter breastfeeding her aged father. What...

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    The famed medieval map that stretched beyond Earth to heaven, history and myth | Aeon Videos

    How an imaginative piece of medieval cartography navigates history, mythology and religion to orient us in...

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    How do you decolonise the English language? | Aeon Essays

    Is Earth’s most-spoken language a living ‘gift’ or a many-headed ‘monster’? Both views distract us from...

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    A biologist on the sorrows of documenting the Great Salt Lake’s collapse | Aeon Videos

    The Great Salt Lake’s ecosystem in free fall. What’s the emotional toll of watching it evaporate...

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    Women write about their divorce experience. Why don’t more men? | Aeon Essays

    Straight men rarely write about the end of their marriages. Our enduring ideas about gender explain...

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    Household items are reborn in a ‘visual symphony of everyday objects’ | Aeon Videos

    The French artist Alain Biet’s ‘visual symphony of everyday objects’ celebrates human ingenuity by mining magic...

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    How Stalin enlisted the Orthodox Church to help control Ukraine | Aeon Essays

    Stalin presented Orthodox leaders with a proposal: the Soviet state that had destroyed their Church would...

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    JWST’s cosmic revelations will change our interior lives too | Aeon Essays

    By showing us a new cosmos, the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope will ripple...

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    As a pianist strikes a chord, visualisations of his notes appear in real time | Aeon Videos

    Watch as a computer code visualises, in real time, the ratios embedded in a virtuoso musician’s...

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    Breeding dogs to be cute and anthropomorphic is animal cruelty | Aeon Essays

    The very attributes that make small dogs cute and popular are slowly strangling their ability to...

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    Meet the man who uncovered the scandal of nuclear testing in South Australia | Aeon Videos

    How one man’s activism helped uncover the reckless nuclear tests that contaminated lands and bodies in...

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    What we lost with Persianate modernity | Aeon Essays

    Cultural exchange between Iran and India led to the creation of literary histories that inspired modern...

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    Jeremy Bentham was consumed by creating a perfect prison. Here’s the result | Aeon Videos

    A precise digital construction of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon prison offers a subtle commentary on power and...

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    Out of John Locke’s shadow: Damaris Masham and her philosophy | Aeon Essays

    Were it not for her friendship with John Locke, the radical feminist gems of philosopher Damaris...

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    Why aren’t our everyday lives as ‘spooky’ as the quantum world? | Aeon Videos

    Why don’t we experience ‘quantum weirdness’ in our everyday lives? A brief dive into the current...

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    What hunter-gatherers demonstrate about work and satisfaction | Aeon Essays

    Hunter-gatherers don’t live in an economic idyll but their deep appreciation of rest puts industrialised work...

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    The strange journey of the Parthenon Marbles to the British Museum | Aeon Videos

    How the Parthenon Marbles came to be on display in the British Museum, thousands of miles...

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    What drum machines can teach us about artificial intelligence | Aeon Essays

    As AI drum machines embrace humanising imperfections, what does this mean for ‘real’ drummers and the...

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    Laura fights to protect the magnificence of wild horses running free | Aeon Videos

    Why Laura Leigh campaigns to protect the magnificent sight of wild horses running free in the...

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    Medieval babycare: from breastfeeding to developmental toys | Aeon Essays

    From mansplaining about breastfeeding to debates on developmental toys, medieval parenting was full of familiar dilemmas...

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    Can a martyr’s death be an act of true resistance and freedom? | Aeon Essays

    When everyday life is marked by oppression and violence, can a martyr’s death truly be an...

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    The old-time cinema experience endures in a quiet corner of Japan | Aeon Videos

    Step inside a century-old cinema in Japan and experience the nostalgic charms of watching (and hearing)...

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    To understand AI sentience, first understand it in animals | Aeon Essays

    As the power of AI grows, we need to have evidence of its sentience. That is...

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    Burning ice, metal clouds, gemstone rain – tour the strangest known exoplanets | Aeon Videos

    An operatic, 3D-animated tour of some of the most fascinating exoplanets yet discovered reveals burning ice...

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    How the interpersonal model explains, and heals, mental pain | Aeon Essays

    In order to understand and heal mental distress, we must see our minds as existing in...

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    ‘I didn’t fall in love with a couple of body pieces’ – on marriage and transition | Aeon Videos

    Les worried that transitioning would ruin his life with Scott and their children. Instead, it strengthened...

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    What are the moral implications of humanity going extinct? | Aeon Essays

    Why would it be so bad if our species came to an end? It is a...

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    Embryo risk screening is already here. What are the ethical risks? | Aeon Essays

    Embryo risk screening could lower the odds of illnesses ranging from depression to diabetes. Can it...

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    Chew over the prisoner’s dilemma and see if you can find the rational path out | Aeon Videos

    A whimsical felted take on the prisoner’s dilemma, the classic game-theory puzzle with real-world political implications...

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    Your secrets hurt your mental health. What’s the alternative? | Aeon Essays

    Holding back the truth can take a huge toll on your relationships and your mental health....

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    The radically impractical 18th-century architect whose ideas on beauty endure | Aeon Videos

    Étienne-Louis Boullée imagined structures for an ideal new social order. These designs were never built, but...

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    How atomic doomsday experiments shaped disturbance ecology | Aeon Essays

    How atomic doomsday experiments, fuelled by Cold War fears, shaped then shook ecologists’ faith in self-healing...

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    From log to Go board – the world’s oldest game, made the old-fashioned way | Aeon Videos

    Enter a workshop where the world’s oldest board game is still made by hand, in a...

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    What was it like to grow up in the last Ice Age? | Aeon Essays

    With the help of new archaeological approaches, our picture of young lives in the Palaeolithic is...

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    If not vegan, then what? An investigation of three options | Aeon Essays

    A vegan diet can be hard to adopt, even if you’re convinced it’s the right thing...

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    The key to a vampire’s immortality? Meeting the anxieties of the moment | Aeon Videos

    How do vampires remain undead? They stay culturally relevant by evolving to reflect the anxieties of...