~aeon | Bookmarks (114)
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Climate populism will be the next great conspiracy complex | Aeon Essays
The most ardent deniers of anthropogenic climate change today will become the climate conspiracy theorists of...
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The spectacular Mardi Gras artworks born of a unique New Orleans tradition | Aeon Videos
A year in the making, the elaborate, wearable artworks of the Black Masking Indians are a...
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Is it possible to hold truly contradictory beliefs together? | Aeon Essays
We can all be inconsistent. Philosophy illuminates a bigger puzzle: how do we hold contradictory beliefs...
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Naira pitches a new sport to her husband in this strange, sweet portrait of marriage | Aeon Videos
The side-eye, the raised eyebrow – watch the sweet, peculiar rallies of a long-married couple in...
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The architectural style wars have started all over again | Aeon Essays
Traditionalist and modernist architecture are both mass-produced, industrial and international. Is there an alternative? - by...
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Why it’s time to replace the genetic blueprint idea | Aeon Essays
The genome is the starting point for a performance we enact over a lifetime, not a...
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Mind-bending speed is the only way to reach the stars – here are three ways to do it | Aeon Videos
Fast, faster, or incredibly fast: an aerospace engineer envisions three possible ways we could travel to...
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‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays
When we imagine ourselves as another creature, we become more attuned to the world around us...
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As her world unravels, Pilar wonders at the ‘sacred geometry’ that gives it structure | Aeon Videos
In a message to her husband from the confusion of his sudden illness, Pilar reflects on...
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On the shared histories of reconstruction in the Americas | Aeon Essays
In the 19th century, civil wars tore apart the US, Mexico and Argentina. Then came democracy’s...
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Why strive? Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave’s letter on the threat of computed creativity | Aeon Videos
‘Our endeavours animate our lives, giving them depth and meaning’: what we lose when we outsource...
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A history of the manifesto as a document of hate and violence | Aeon Essays
The manifesto was always a hotheaded call to arms. Then it got a slick, digital makeover...
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‘I know that change is possible’ – a Deaf prison chaplain’s gospel of hope | Aeon Videos
Meet Walker Estes, a Deaf prison chaplain whose advocacy was shaped by his daughter’s experience of...
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Why do other people form imaginary shapes in our minds? | Aeon Essays
Some friends are ‘close’. Others are ‘distant’. But our spatial descriptions of social life are more...
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Find the building blocks of nature within a single, humble snowflake | Aeon Videos
Each snowflake’s unique symmetry is a beautiful illustration of the natural laws that govern all things...
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The first world orders were not European. They came from Asia | Aeon Essays
Before modern Europe existed there was a grand, interconnected political world, rich in scientific and artistic...
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An artist swaps her head with everyday objects in a musing on consumerism | Aeon Videos
A bicycle seat, a shell and an ice cream, among other things, take the place of...
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Cosmic expansion is a given. Who inherits the cosmos is not | Aeon Essays
When self-replicating craft bring life to the far Universe, a religious cult, not science, is likely...