~aeon | 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...