~aeon | Bookmarks (110)
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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...
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The overlooked polymath whose theatrical oeuvre made all of Rome a stage | Aeon Videos
How Bernini’s dynamic sculptures captured the passionate, theatrical mood of the Baroque era, and made all...
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Sufi transitions: between mullahs and Sufis in Afghanistan | Aeon Essays
Once a centre of Afghan culture, Sufism seems to have disappeared in the maelstrom of war...
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Why the golden age of total solar eclipses is already behind us | Aeon Videos
Solar eclipses are a happy astronomical accident. They were once even more spectacular, and will eventually...
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Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death | Aeon Essays
The intrepid logician Kurt Gödel believed in the afterlife. In four heartfelt letters to his mother...