~aeon | Bookmarks (103)
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How – and how not – to think about the role randomness plays in evolution | Aeon Videos
Evolution isn’t linear and it doesn’t have a masterplan – a microbiologist explains the role of...
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What Pauli’s neutrino reveals about scientific methodology | Aeon Essays
In order to make headway on knotty metaphysical problems, philosophers should look to the methods used...
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A prisoner in Guantánamo finds some escape in building intricate model ships | Aeon Videos
‘We can make beautiful things, even in a place like Guantánamo’: how Moath al-Alwi preserves his...
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On the varna system, Gandhi’s plan to empower the workers | Aeon Essays
For Indians to be truly free, Gandhi argued they must take up traditional crafts. Was it...
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A Japanese religious community makes an unlikely home in the mountains of Colorado | Aeon Videos
Members of a Japanese religious movement carve out happy lives in small-town Colorado in this short...
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How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices | Aeon Essays
For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful. Psychiatry must embrace new meaning-making...
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C L R James foresaw the crisis of US liberal democracy | Aeon Essays
The brilliant Trinidadian thinker is remembered as an admirer of the US but he also warned...
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From secret crushes to self-acceptance – a joyful chronicle of ‘old lesbian’ stories | Aeon Videos
This is what an old lesbian looks like: the huge, joyful project capturing queer elder women’s...
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The surprising truth about wealth and inequality in the West | Aeon Essays
The tide has turned – evidence shows ordinary citizens in the Western world are now richer...
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Forging a cello from pieces of wood demands its own form of virtuosity | Aeon Videos
A close look at the exquisite work of a master luthier as he transforms pieces of...
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How a warming Earth is changing our brains, bodies and minds | Aeon Essays
It’s not just the planet and not just our health – the impact of a warming...
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Scenes from a school year paint a refreshingly nuanced portrait of rural America | Aeon Videos
A year at a public school in rural Indiana chronicles how community and education intersect in...
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Why millions of Britons fell in love with suburban life | Aeon Essays
Modernists and historians alike loathed the millions of new houses built in interwar Britain. But their...
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John Rawls, liberalism and what it means to live a good life | Aeon Essays
For John Rawls, liberalism was more than a political project: it is the best way to...
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The rhythms of a star system inspire a pianist’s transfixing performance | Aeon Videos
In a transfixing melding of art and science, a pianist improvises to a star system’s ‘unusually...
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Is AI our salvation, our undoing, or just more of the same? | Aeon Essays
Generative AI has lately set off public euphoria: the machines have learned to think! But just...
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Is it ethical to have a second child so that your first might live? | Aeon Videos
Two personal perspectives and the views of world religions on the moral considerations of conceiving one...
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How do we transmit culture when it cannot be put into words? | Aeon Essays
If human knowledge can disappear so easily, why have so many cultural practices survived without written...
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Watch as Japan’s surplus trees are transformed into forest-tinted crayons | Aeon Videos
Experimenting with Japan’s tree surplus, two artists create crayons to help cultivate a closer relationship with...
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We need the first-hand experience of disabled researchers | Aeon Essays
For far too long, medicine has ignored the valuable insights that patients have into their own...
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What plant philosophy says about plant agency and intelligence | Aeon Essays
The stunningly complex behaviour of plants has led to a new way of thinking about our...
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‘Everydayness is the enemy’ – excerpts from the existentialist novel ‘The Moviegoer’ | Aeon Videos
Are those who ponder existence far ahead, or far behind? A search for meaning and purpose...
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What explains the variations in sexual sensation between us? | Aeon Essays
What makes touch on some parts of the body erotic but not others? Cutting-edge biologists are...
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The volunteer musicians who perform in the aftermath of violence and tragedy | Aeon Videos
After violence erupts on the streets of Milwaukee, musicians perform as an act of healing and...