Bookmarks (107)

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    The only man permitted in Bhutan’s sacred mountains chronicles humanity’s impact | Aeon Videos

    A lone glaciologist performs spiritual and scientific rituals to assess humanity’s impact in Bhutan’s sacred mountains...

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    Why the emotional labour of hospital staff is dirty work | Aeon Essays

    In caring for and bearing with human suffering, hospital staff perform extreme emotional labour. Is there...

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    Pioneering sociologist Erving Goffman saw magic in the mundane | Aeon Essays

    Pioneering sociologist Erving Goffman realised that every action is deeply revealing of the social norms by...

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    The Indian astronomer whose innovative work on black holes was mocked at Cambridge | Aeon Videos

    When scientific pursuits are subject to human shortcomings: the Indian scientist made to wait 50 years...

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    ‘If you’re creative, why can’t you create a solution?’ One artist’s imaginative activism | Aeon Videos

    How Rick Lowe transformed the idea of ‘art as an object’ into ‘art as a process’...

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    Only the deep past can make sense of terrifying nuclear futures | Aeon Essays

    To understand the terrifying futures unleashed by nuclear weapons, we urgently need to return to the...

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    An ancient Roman’s hilarious (and perhaps relatable) response to a social snub | Aeon Videos

    ‘You prefer to dine at some nobody’s house!’ How an ancient Roman responded to the deep...

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    Why governments and business like to offload risk to individuals | Aeon Essays

    Under the guise of empowerment and freedom, politicians and business are offloading lifethreatening risk to individuals...

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    Machiavelli on the problem of our impure beginnings | Aeon Essays

    Niccolò Machiavelli’s profound insights about the violent origins of political societies help us understand the world...

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    For Iris Murdoch, selfishness is a fault that can be solved by reframing the world | Aeon Videos

    Selfishness is an enduring part of the human condition. For Iris Murdoch, the antidote is to...

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    A hunter’s lyrical reflection on the humbling business of being mortal | Aeon Videos

    ‘We’re both caught up in the music’: A hunter tries to understand his place in the...

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    The hunter-gatherers of the 21st century who live on the move | Aeon Essays

    Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the...

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    After his son’s terrorist attack, Azdyne seeks healing – and his granddaughter | Aeon Videos

    A father seeks to heal his community and find his granddaughter, after his son’s terrorist attack...

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    Are the exact words of a language arbitrary or necessary? | Aeon Essays

    Humans have a strong impulse to see things that are arbitrary or conventional as natural and...

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    The iconic brain map that’s changing neurosurgery and gaming | Aeon Essays

    When we discovered that the brain contained a map of the body it revolutionised neuroscience. But...

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    Seven years later, what can we make of our first confirmed interstellar visitor? | Aeon Videos

    It wasn’t aliens, but the first interstellar object found in our solar system still has much...

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    For girls, silence is the bad bargain with patriarchy | Aeon Essays

    Girls are still in a bad bargain with patriarchy: the price of relationship is keeping their...

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    Is it possible to design a shape to roll along any fixed path? | Aeon Videos

    How a playful experiment, motivated by scientists’ curiosity, could have novel applications in the realm of...

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    How Savarkar invented Hindu supremacy and its cult of violence | Aeon Essays

    Vinayak Savarkar ridiculed Gandhi, preaching that anti-Muslim violence was the only means to unite India into...

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    More than breathtaking, ‘The Birth of Venus’ signalled an aesthetic revolution | Aeon Videos

    How medieval Christianity met humanist philosophy in Botticelli’s masterful Renaissance painting ‘The Birth of Venus’ -...

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    Folktales like philosophy startle us into rethinking our values | Aeon Essays

    Both folktales and formal philosophy unsettle us into thinking anew about our cherished values and views...

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    On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays

    Science must become attuned to the subtle conversations that pervade all life, from the primordial to...

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    The two women behind a world-changing scientific discovery | Aeon Videos

    The making of a revolution – the exciting history of the CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough, from the...

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    The birth of our system for describing web content | Aeon Essays

    Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of...

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    Striking shadow puppetry illuminates a skater kid’s memories of Boy Scout camp | Aeon Videos

    ‘It was a Boy Scout camp, and I was far from a Boy Scout’ – shadow...

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    The case for liberal socialism in the 21st century | Aeon Essays

    As the crisis of democracy deepens, we must return to liberalism’s revolutionary and egalitarian roots -...

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    A Zen Buddhist priest voices the deep matters he usually ponders in silence | Aeon Videos

    ‘If we have any chance at all, then this is our chance – that we become...

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    What should a sports fan do when their team lets them down? | Aeon Essays

    Players, coaches and team owners sometimes do terrible things. What, if anything, should their fans do...

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    The strange and turbulent global world of ant geopolitics | Aeon Essays

    Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society...

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    Meet the entrepreneur whose business is crafting perfect peak experiences | Aeon Videos

    Before the clock strikes on new year’s day, meet the man who made it his life’s...

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    Why the son of God story is built on mythology, not history | Aeon Essays

    How could a cult leader draw crowds, inspire devotion and die by crucifixion, yet leave no...

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    A reporter orphaned by night raids in Afghanistan investigates their cruel legacy | Aeon Videos

    Orphaned by military night raids, a reporter returns to her native Afghanistan to investigate the trauma...

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    Can philosophy help us get a grip on the consequences of AI? | Aeon Essays

    Generative agents will change our society in weird, wonderful and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us...

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    Does capitalism make ‘non-playable characters’ of us all? An uncanny exploration | Aeon Videos

    The daily grind of non-playable characters offers a clever critique of capitalism’s ‘infinite loop of labour...

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    The radical political writings of Sophie de Grouchy | Aeon Essays

    As a republican, Sophie de Grouchy argued that sympathy, not domination, must be the glue that...

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    How smells can boost children’s learning and pleasure | Aeon Essays

    When scents are used to intensify a narrative, they heighten young readers’ emotions and enrich their...

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    A ‘virtual outing’ on Google Maps reveals a treasured image from Diego’s past | Aeon Videos

    Afraid of flying, Diego travels the world through Google Maps where he discovers a treasured memory...

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    How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think | Aeon Essays

    Woven into the fabric of language, metaphors shape how we understand reality. What happens when we...

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    ‘I listen to the land’ – poetry and greenery intertwine in Emilio Ambasz’s architecture | Aeon Videos

    Emilio Ambasz’s pioneering designs begin with a recognition that nature is human-made, paving the way for...

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    The cruelty of crypto in its promise to revive the American dream | Aeon Essays

    Selling itself as the new American dream, crypto exposes the vulnerable to fraud and scams, and...

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    The ornate, the aromatic, the cruel – Valentine’s cards before the age of Hallmark | Aeon Videos

    From hearts and flowers to mean ‘vinegar Valentines’ – a fascinating look through the V&A’s cards...

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    Bathing should be a right in 21st-century cities | Aeon Essays

    Water is a great healer. Can New York’s public pools and ‘blue spaces’ be engineered for...

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    What it’s like to care for Yellowstone during its quietest – and coldest – months | Aeon Videos

    For its winter caretaker of 50 years, Yellowstone National Park is a fragile place, not the...

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    Who are the leaders in our heads – and how did they get there? | Aeon Essays

    How the biblical King David and Machiavelli’s Prince can help us understand the dominant view of...

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    Why surgery and barbering were one occupation in the Middle Ages | Aeon Videos

    Medieval barbers didn’t just give haircuts – they performed a variety of surgeries, from tooth extraction...

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    How a single unglamorous ship tells the history of the world | Aeon Essays

    How a single, unglamorous, workaday merchant vessel tells the history of the 19th-century world in many...

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    ‘My art is oratory, Socrates.’ An ancient warning on the power and peril of rhetoric | Aeon Videos

    Cryptic visuals combine with a haunting score to deliver a Socratic exchange on the nature (and...

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    The future of humanism, from Toni Morrison to Nick Bostrom | Aeon Essays

    Humanity’s future remains as unthinkable as the still-uncolonised galaxy or the enduring mystery of our own...

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    How Alan Watts re-imagined religion, desire and life itself | Aeon Essays

    Alan Watts, for all his faults, was a wildly imaginative and provocative thinker who reimagined religion...

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    Witch hunts persist as a horrifying, deadly reality in pockets of rural India | Aeon Videos

    In rural India, witch hunts are still an enduring, deadly reality. Ana’s disturbing story is just...