~aeon | Bookmarks (106)
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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...
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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...