~aeon | Bookmarks (116)
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Closed captions suck. Here’s one artist’s inventive project to make them better | Aeon Videos
Captioning dialogue is one thing; captioning sound is another. This is how the artist Christine Sun...
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The tenderness of medical care in an organ donor’s last hours | Aeon Essays
In the liminal time when the brain is dead but organs are kept alive, there is...
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A rare female scholar of the Roman Empire, Hypatia lived and died as a secular voice | Aeon Videos
Meet Hypatia of Alexandria, a rare female – and moderate secular – public intellectual, who was...
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How to think about the prospects of truly green growth | Aeon Essays
We need to find a way for human societies to prosper while the planet heals. So...
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The celebrated architect who took inspiration from sitting, waiting and contemplating | Aeon Videos
Profile of the pioneering Canadian architect whose modernist designs disintegrated boundaries between structure and place -...
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Why did our ancestors make startling art in dark, firelit caves? | Aeon Essays
New research transports us back to the shadowy firelight of ancient caves, imagining the minds and...
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Jack London, Martin Eden and the liberal education in US life | Aeon Essays
In Jack London’s novel, Martin Eden personifies debates still raging over the role and purpose of...
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Why are witchcraft accusations so common across human societies? | Aeon Videos
A novel study in rural China suggests that witchcraft accusations may have arisen as a means...
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We need to pull the plug on the idea of indigeneity in India | Aeon Essays
In a country of such extraordinary diversity, the UN definition of ‘indigenous’ does little more than...
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Drop into London’s eclectic skate scene, where newbies and old-timers find community | Aeon Videos
‘60 per cent community, 40 per cent skateboarding’ – a portrait of London’s growing skate scene...
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How UFOs almost killed the search for life in the Universe | Aeon Essays
Not long ago the search for extraterrestrials was considered laughable nonsense. Today, it’s serious and scientific...
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A deepfake porn victim confronts the pain of having her likeness stolen and vandalised | Aeon Videos
‘This girl, this woman, this… me?’ Helen shares her horrifying experience of being deepfaked for pornography...
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How socioeconomic equalisation generates new ideas of balance | Aeon Essays
In the Middle Ages, a new sense of balance fundamentally altered our understanding of nature and...
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What Thucydides really thought about historical analogies | Aeon Essays
In constantly reaching for past parallels to explain our peculiar times we miss the real lessons...
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Born in China, Zee seeks a gender-affirming life in the American Midwest | Aeon Videos
For an aspiring nurse, staying in the US holds out the precarious promise of a life...
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Why do the building blocks of life possess a mysterious symmetry? | Aeon Videos
There’s a mystery of mirror molecules at the origin of life on Earth – and these...
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I migrated to my ancestral homeland in a search for identity | Aeon Essays
I migrated to my ancestral homeland in a search for identity. It proved to be a...
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A whale hunt is an act of prayer for an Inuit community north of the Arctic Circle | Aeon Videos
For an Iñupiat whaling crew north of the Arctic Circle, waiting on the ice for the...
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How did America become the nation of credit cards? | Aeon Essays
Americans have always borrowed, but how exactly did their lives become so entangled with the power...
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In the beginning, there was love. We can move with its power | Aeon Essays
Love is much more than a mere emotion or moral ideal. It imbues the world itself...
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Tiny, entangled universes that form or fizzle out – a theory of the quantum multiverse | Aeon Videos
Cosmologists understand what happened after the Big Bang. But what was our Universe before then? Enter...
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On lived experience, from the Romantics to identity politics | Aeon Essays
The term is ubiquitous and double-edged. It is both a key source of authentic knowledge and...
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The peculiar beauty of a song caught between composition and improvisation | Aeon Videos
For a truly ‘naive melody’, listen as musicians try to mirror a song in realtime, accompanied...
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Living with the enduring pain of postcolonial trauma | Aeon Essays
The lives of North Africans in France are shaped by a harrowing struggle to belong, marked...