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Aeon Papers
(Work In Progress: output at 19/03/2023 09:22:59)
Introduction
- The Aeon eZine, described in Aeon: About:-
- Covers a large number of philosophical topics that I’m particularly interested in from a semi-professional point of view.
- It also covers others that are of more general interest, for which I’ve read papers as they crop up but don’t really have much time to comment on.
- Finally, there are others – and particularly videos – which are not as relevant, and which I often ignore.
- In May 2020, Aeon launched a new platform Psyche, described in Psyche: About. I’ve just treated the Psyche videos and papers as for Aeon.
- This Note contains links to Aeon & Psyche papers and videos I've found interesting – or hope to find interesting – from 2019 onwards, together with a few others that I’d not had time to categorise in this Note1. It represents an attempt to gain benefit from Aeon without incurring the overheads previously exemplified in the Note just cited. I intend to combine the two Notes in due course.
- The items accessed now appear in two lists: those I’ve read, and those I’ve not. The latter list ought to be itself divided in two – those I intend to read and those I don’t. This is because the items arrive too rapidly to be read, at least while I’m in “catch-up” mode, as will always be the case. However, I’ve decided to simply prioritise the items, with the lower-priority items likely to remain languishing at the bottom.
- The priorities are fairly random, and subject to revision. I decided to restrict “priority 1” items to a maximum of 10, but it got out of hand – nearly up to 300! So – as of end May 2022 – I added 1 to each priority and chose 10 to be priority 1. Hopefully I can stick to this: new items should have a maximum priority of 2, and then I look through these to select my ‘top 10’ – but only when there are no more items in the ‘priority 1’ list. I tend to cheat a bit by adding all the interesting items each week as priority 1 and then culling any unread items in excess of 10 before adding the next week’s in.
- I note here that this page is getting slow to load, so I will ultimately need to split it. This may be either by priority, or by topic, but deciding what to do is quite complex and needs thinking through. For now, I’ve simply removed the blurbs from any items for which a Paper has been created.
- Those I’ve read appear first, in reverse date of publication. I’ve tried to add a brief footnote for each.
- For the list of items I’ve not read, the items most recently published appear – within their respective priorities – at the top of the list when accessed, though with the videos first as they’re quicker to get through. Some of these items were "reminders" sent out at weekends when new material doesn't appear, so can have much earlier publication dates than their sequence in the list might imply. I’m in the process of adding the dates, which appear in red.
- The counts of the papers read – and unread by priority – appear in the table above, with hyperlinks to the lists.
- Note that where a date appears, this is the date published, not the date read. Any comments or additional information appear as a footnote, followed by clicking the date. Click on the paper title for the link to the full text on the Aeon website.
- I intend to add links to the PID Notes, where applicable, to which these works are relevant, and to their authors if they appear in my database. Also, if a paper turns out to be important enough for my research, I’ll incorporate it into my database so the hyperlinks to the topic of interest work better and I can add more information.
- While this was supposed to be a “quick and dirty” approach, I unfortunately ran into the MS Access 64k-character size-limit for long text. Thankfully, this can be over-ridden if the text is populated using Access Basic code, so I’ve added the wherewithal to achieve this. The references to “WebRef= nnnn” signify the primary key for a couple of tables I use to generate this page.
- A note on completeness: I’ve now been through all the emails received from Aeon since the beginning of 2018. Relatively few were omitted. Those for 2017 were dealt with in this Note2, though my selection criteria were more rigorous in those days.
- I have to add a note of warning to myself. These papers are – in most cases – especially in the case of those selected – fascinating and informative. But they also lead on to other papers cited that are likewise fascinating and informative, or important if I am to follow in detail or critique the arguments put forward. There is no end to this process, which may end up as a distraction from constructive work.
- Some of the papers or videos are republications from other sites of interest. While noting the above comment, I will list them here (in the order they came to my attention):-
→ Closer to Truth
→ Neurophilosophy
→ Woit - Not Even Wrong
→ 3Blue1Brown
→ Institute of Arts and Ideas
→ Philosophy Overdose
→ Physics Reimagined
→ YouTube: Then & Now
→ The Royal Institution
→ Five Books
- I ought to add a note on why all this is worth bothering with.
- Firstly, some items are relevant to my research or other projects and provide a more contemporary or less formal / more exploratory approach than I’ll find in academic papers or books.
- Secondly, there are items on a very wide range of subjects that might be treated in magazines or broadsheets, but which are dealt with in greater depth here.
- So, my intention is to use Aeon for general culture and education, and Newspapers for … news.
Items Pending
Items ReadClick on the Date for further information and (possibly) a commentary, and on the Title for the full paper on Aeon.
- Aeon: Video - The Parthenon Marbles: 28/02/20233
- Aeon: Video - How to outsmart the prisoner's dilemma: 16/02/20234
- Aeon: Video - A brief history of vampires: 09/02/20235
- Aeon: Podany - What the tablets say: 09/02/20236
- Aeon: Video - Man on the chair: 08/02/20237
- Aeon: Video - The panspermia theory: 07/02/20238
- Aeon: Video - My Dudus: 31/01/20239
- Aeon: Video - Barry Loewer on causation: 24/01/202310
- Aeon: Video - Ethical dilemma: whose life is more valuable?: 19/01/202311
- Aeon: Video - Connecting the human body to the outside world: 09/01/202312
- Aeon: Raff - Finding the First Americans: 22/12/202213
- Aeon: Video - Creating a wormhole in a quantum computer: 19/12/202214
- Aeon: Wilkinson - The pharaoh’s trumpet: 08/12/202215
- Aeon: Video - The Rosetta stone and what it actually says: 29/11/202216
- Aeon: Video - Why did Consciousness evolve: 28/11/202217
- Aeon: Video - Ed Yong - The hidden world of animal senses: 15/11/202218
- Aeon: Andrew - How to find great films to watch: 09/11/202219
- Aeon: Video - The legacy of Sappho: 01/11/202220
- Aeon: Video - Proportional verdicts: 25/10/202221
- Aeon: Goldberg & Gavaler - A dinosaur is a story: 21/10/202222
- Aeon: Video - Five years after the war: 18/10/202223
- Aeon: Brakke - The imperative betrayal: 18/10/202224
- Aeon: Video - A C Grayling: Why not nothing?: 13/10/202225
- Aeon: Schneider - An unholy alliance: 13/10/202226
- Aeon: Video - The Boltzmann brain paradox: 06/10/202227
- Aeon: Humphrey - Seeing and somethingness: 03/10/202228
- Aeon: Dugatkin - Fortune favours the shrewd: 30/09/202229
- Aeon: Video - They: 19/09/202230
- Aeon: Marino - Happy the person: 16/09/202231
- Aeon: Video - What was the first transit map?: 08/09/202232
- Aeon: Owen - What luck in war reveals about the role of chance in life: 07/09/202233
- Aeon: Video - If you love this planet: 01/09/202234
- Aeon: Video - Einstein's twin paradox: 30/08/202235
- Aeon: Ball - What on earth is a xenobot?: 30/08/202236
- Aeon: Lockhart - What sex-difference science misses about the messy reality of sex: 17/08/202237
- Aeon: Lichtenberg - Abolish life sentences: 12/08/202238
- Aeon: Gulliver - Semiotics of dogs: 04/08/202239
- Aeon: Video - Can we create the perfect farm?: 28/07/202240
- Aeon: Video - The modern invention of white antique marble: 26/07/202241
- Aeon: Video - Don't go tellin' your momma: 20/07/202242
- Aeon: Padavic-Callaghan - Imaginary numbers are real: 14/07/202243
- Aeon: Atran - The will to fight: 11/07/202244
- Aeon: Neumeyer - The discontent of Russia: 05/07/202245
- Aeon: Popkin - Our trip to Antioch: 01/07/202246
- Aeon: Video - How do you know you're not dreaming?: 30/06/202247
- Aeon: Torwali - The polyglots of Dardistan: 24/06/202248
- Aeon: Quaglia - Connected-up-brains: 23/06/202249
- Aeon: Video - What does dying really feel like?: 23/06/202250
- Aeon: Salgarella - Cracking the Cretan code: 17/06/202251
- Aeon: Gruber - Don’t be stoic: Roman Stoicism’s origins show its perniciousness: 15/06/202252
- Aeon: Petersen - Can algorithms speak? And should their opinions be protected?: 07/06/202253
- Aeon: Peña-Guzmán - The dreams of animals: 07/06/202254
- Aeon: Video - The incredible life of Maria Sibylla Merian: 30/05/202255
- Aeon: Video - Thalia Wheatley: social neuroscience: 26/05/202256
- Aeon: Keil - How to revive your sense of wonder: 18/05/202257
- Aeon: Schwenkler - What does it take for someone to become a ‘different person’?: 17/05/202258
- Aeon: Video - Godel's Incompleteness Theorem: 16/05/202259
- Aeon: Baggini - How to think about free will: 11/05/202260
- Aeon: Video - The great silence: 11/05/202261
- Aeon: Video - Bacon and God's wrath: 10/05/202262
- Aeon: Sebo - Against human exceptionalism: 05/05/202263
- Aeon: Video - What is movement: 03/05/202264
- Aeon: Video - The AI historian: 02/05/202265
- Aeon: Video - The spiritual exercises: 02/05/202266
- Aeon: Video - Stray in Kars: 28/04/202267
- Aeon: Video - Sister: 26/04/202268
- Aeon: Video - You've never been completely honest: 21/04/202269
- Aeon: Video - The great malaise: 18/04/202270
- Aeon: Video - Who decides what art means?: 14/04/202271
- Aeon: Smyth - Nature does not care: 12/04/202272
- Aeon: Video - Composite: 11/04/202273
- Aeon: Video - Abductees: 06/04/202274
- Aeon: Video - Tengri: 05/04/202275
- Aeon: Video - Phenomena: magnetism: 31/03/202276
- Aeon: Video - The Japanese sword as the soul of the samurai: 24/03/202277
- Aeon: Video - The first Tuesday in November: 22/03/202278
- Aeon: Video - A is for autism: 21/03/202279
- Aeon: Kang - The problem with ‘han’ 한 恨: 18/03/202280
- Aeon: Derbew - Blackness in antiquity: 17/03/202281
- Aeon: Ribeiro - Ancestral dreams: 15/03/202282
- Aeon: Video - How does a quantum computer work?: 14/03/202283
- Aeon: Blankinship - Tales of two jackals: 11/03/202284
- Aeon: Video - Virtual ancient Rome: walking from the Colosseum to the Forum: 10/03/202285
- Aeon: Video - The Black cop: a victim, a villain and a hero: 07/03/202286
- Aeon: Video - The infamous overpopulation bet: 03/03/202287
- Aeon: Nathan - Knowing your true age requires more than a swab and calendar: 02/03/202288
- Aeon: Doyle - Affirming transgender people’s identities is more than politeness: 01/03/202289
- Aeon: Francione - We must not own animals: 01/03/202290
- Aeon: Video - The many disguises of Australian walking sticks: 28/02/202291
- Aeon: Video - The happiest guy in the world: 24/02/202292
- Aeon: Video - The Bombay highway code: 21/02/202293
- Aeon: Video - Bertrand's Paradox: 15/02/202294
- Aeon: Video - Jeff Tollaksen - quantum mechanics experiments: 10/02/202295
- Aeon: Tyldesley - Nefertiti’s bust: 08/02/202296
- Aeon: Video - The chimney swift: 07/02/202297
- Aeon: Falk - The philosopher’s zombie: 04/02/202298
- Aeon: Video - Forever: 03/02/202299
- Aeon: Video - The invention of trousers: 01/02/2022100
- Aeon: Zangwill - Why you should eat meat: 24/01/2022101
- Aeon: Montas - Great books are still great: 21/01/2022102
- Aeon: Barash - Be they friend or foe, animals share our blood and our planet: 19/01/2022103
- Aeon: Kahn-Harris - The pleasure in not understanding a language can be awesome: 19/01/2022104
- Aeon: Video - Zen koans: 17/01/2022105
- Aeon: Jones - Becoming a centaur: 14/01/2022106
- Aeon: Video - Inka khipu: 13/01/2022107
- Aeon: Video - Unsafe passage: 11/01/2022108
- Aeon: Video - Powers of ten, updated: 04/01/2022109
- Aeon: Video - How to ride a pterosaur: 23/12/2021110
- Aeon: Video - Karl Friston: Embodied cognition: 16/12/2021111
- Aeon: Video - In a lion: 14/12/2021112
- Aeon: Video - Simulating star-destroying black holes: 13/12/2021113
- Aeon: Video - The power of diverse thinking: 06/12/2021114
- Aeon: Video - Vertigo AI: 29/11/2021115
- Aeon: Video - Planktonium: 23/11/2021116
- Aeon: Pigliucci - Musonius Rufus: Roman Stoic, and avant-garde feminist?: 17/11/2021117
- Aeon: Shakespeare - We are all frail: 16/11/2021118
- Aeon: Video - When Vikings lived in North America: 09/11/2021119
- Aeon: Video - Bug Farm: 02/11/2021120
- Aeon: Mallette - How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of risk: 02/11/2021121
- Aeon: Pierce - The posthuman dog: 01/11/2021122
- Aeon: Video - Street angel: 28/10/2021123
- Aeon: Video - The development of mindreading: 25/10/2021124
- Aeon: Video - Five Stories: 13/10/2021125
- Aeon: Video - The Rashomon effect: 11/10/2021126
- Aeon: Video - Moths in slow motion: 07/10/2021127
- Aeon: Video - The elephant's song: 04/10/2021128
- Aeon: Video - Fifty per cent: 28/09/2021129
- Aeon: Video - The impossible map: 27/09/2021130
- Aeon: Fleming - A theory of my own mind: 23/09/2021131
- Aeon: Gonzalez-Crussi - Shaggy and strong, or shorn and sharp? Hair’s evolving symbolism: 22/09/2021132
- Aeon: Video - Alison Gopnik: Cognition, care and spirituality: 20/09/2021133
- Aeon: Monso - What animals think of death: 14/09/2021134
- Aeon: Video - Serial parallels: 13/09/2021135
- Aeon: Video - The Standard Model: 09/09/2021136
- Aeon: Taylor - Jefferson’s university: 03/09/2021137
- Aeon: Agren - An idea with bite: 02/09/2021138
- Aeon: Video - Hisako Koyama, the woman who stared at the sun: 17/08/2021139
- Aeon: Video - Hacking enlightenment: 16/08/2021140
- Aeon: Video - When can you trust the statistics?: 12/08/2021141
- Aeon: Video - Between strangers: 11/08/2021142
- Aeon: Video - Kids game: 10/08/2021143
- Aeon: Video - Kabuki: The classic theatre of Japan: 09/08/2021144
- Aeon: Golob - Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid: 04/08/2021145
- Aeon: Middleton - Poseidon’s wrath: 02/08/2021146
- Aeon: Video - Cosmology in the dark: 29/07/2021147
- Aeon: Sebo & Schukraft - Don’t farm bugs: 27/07/2021148
- Aeon: Video - The great wave by Hokusai: 27/07/2021149
- Aeon: Video - Aerial sheep herding in Yokneam: 26/07/2021150
- Aeon: Video - Plato's Atlantis: 19/07/2021151
- Aeon: Video - Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions: 15/07/2021152
- Aeon: Tillson - Imagine you could insert knowledge into your mind: should you?: 14/07/2021153
- Aeon: Shushan - Near-death experiences have long inspired afterlife beliefs: 12/07/2021154
- Aeon: Video - Nero: the man behind the myth: 08/07/2021155
- Aeon: Video - Not the same river. Not the same man.: 07/07/2021156
- Aeon: Video - Rotifiers: charmingly bizarre and often ignored: 06/07/2021157
- Aeon: Reeves - Lies and honest mistakes: 05/07/2021158
- Aeon: Video - How an infinite hotel ran out of room: 01/07/2021159
- Aeon: Coffman - The Margaret Mead problem: 01/07/2021160
- Aeon: Video - By the river: 30/06/2021161
- Aeon: Video - Charting animal cognition: 28/06/2021162
- Aeon: Reiff - How important is white fear?: 28/06/2021163
- Aeon: Zadra - What dream characters reveal about the astonishing dreaming brain: 28/06/2021164
- Aeon: Mackay - The whitewashing of Rome: 25/06/2021165
- Aeon: Video - Organism: 22/06/2021166
- Aeon: Video - Out of mind: 21/06/2021167
- Aeon: Video - The Mozart effect: 17/06/2021168
- Aeon: Video - Sounds for Mazin: 16/06/2021169
- Aeon: Video - Thai country living: 15/06/2021170
- Aeon: Video - A brief history of the devil: 10/06/2021171
- Aeon: Video - Degrees of uncertaincy: 03/06/2021172
- Aeon: Video - The seeker: 02/06/2021173
- Aeon: Video - Hum chitra banate hai (We make images): 26/05/2021174
- Aeon: Video - The undying hydra: 25/05/2021175
- Aeon: Video - Lee Smolin: space and time: 23/05/2021176
- Aeon: Video - The lion man: 20/05/2021177
- Aeon: Video - Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak?: 10/05/2021178
- Aeon: Video - Phrenology: the weirdest pseudoscience of them all?: 06/05/2021179
- Aeon: Video - Samurai rules for peace and war: 04/05/2021180
- Aeon: Video - Colette: 03/05/2021181
- Aeon: Video - Light and microscopy: 29/04/2021182
- Aeon: Grubbs - If you think you’ve got a porn addiction, you probably haven’t: 28/04/2021183
- Aeon: Video - This is Bate Bola: 28/04/2021184
- Aeon: Video - The secret language of trees: 20/04/2021185
- Aeon: Dermendzhiyska - The misinformation virus: 16/04/2021186
- Aeon: Scheidel - The road from Rome: 15/04/2021187
- Aeon: Video - Should computers run the world?: 07/04/2021188
- Aeon: Challenger - The joy of being animal: 06/04/2021189
- Aeon: Ferreira - The cosmic chasm: 26/03/2021190
- Aeon: Video - Rooms: 25/03/2021191
- Aeon: Video - Via dolorosa: 24/03/2021192
- Aeon: Video - Michael Rakowitz: haunting the West: 23/03/2021193
- Aeon: Video - Unfold the maths of origami: 22/03/2021194
- Aeon: Jaekl - Am I my connectome?: 19/03/2021195
- Aeon: Moynihan - Thanks for all the fish: 18/03/2021196
- Aeon: Video - The lost sound: 18/03/2021197
- Aeon: Herbert - A window into 18th-century Queer London, tender yet defiant: 17/03/2021 (Amanda E. Herbert) (WebRef=10489, Unread, Priority=0)
- Aeon: Video - The death of Julius Caesar: 15/03/2021198
- Aeon: Gallagher - How to learn a language (and stick at it): 10/03/2021199
- Aeon: Levy - Final thoughts: 08/03/2021200
- Aeon: Video - A brief history of melancholy: 04/03/2021201
- Aeon: Video - The Sutton Hoo helmet: 02/03/2021202
- Aeon: Godfrey-Smith - Philosophers and other animals: 25/02/2021203
- Aeon: Video - Sabine Hossenfelder: Searching for beauty in mathematics: 25/02/2021204
- Aeon: Video - A small antelope horn: 23/02/2021205
- Aeon: Video - How Big Tech betrayed us: 18/02/2021206
- Aeon: Video - Kachalka: 17/02/2021207
- Aeon: West - Pause. Reflect. Think: 11/02/2021208
- Aeon: Puchner - How a secret European language ‘made a rabbit’ and survived: 10/02/2021209
- Aeon: Sunar - I have no mind’s eye - let me try to describe it for you: 10/02/2021210
- Aeon: Video - Who decides how long a second is?: 08/02/2021211
- Aeon: Video - Nyctophobia: 02/02/2021212
- Aeon: Video - Quantum fluctuations: 01/02/2021213
- Aeon: Tasioulas - All in one: 29/01/2021214
- Aeon: Wright - How to be a genius: 26/01/2021215
- Aeon: Freamon - Gulf slave society: 22/01/2021216
- Aeon: Video - The wolf dividing Norway: 21/01/2021217
- Aeon: Frevert - The history of humiliation points to the future of human dignity: 20/01/2021218
- Aeon: Video - The evolution of cynicism: 19/01/2021219
- Aeon: Video - Kidnapper ants: 14/01/2021220
- Aeon: Sykes - Sheanderthal: 12/01/2021221
- Aeon: Video - Fukuzawa Yukichi in Europe: 05/01/2021222
- Aeon: Video - In dog years: 24/12/2020223
- Aeon: Romeo & Tewksbury - Plato in Sicily: 21/12/2020224
- Aeon: Video - My name is Anik: 14/12/2020225
- Aeon: Limburg - Am I disabled?: 10/12/2020226
- Aeon: Video - Why are we so attached to our things?: 07/12/2020227
- Aeon: Video - The sound of gravity: 03/12/2020228
- Aeon: Video - Daily life in Egypt: ancient and modern: 01/12/2020229
- Aeon: Video - Don't think twice: 26/11/2020230
- Aeon: Klein - The rise of the bystander as a complicit historical actor: 11/11/2020231
- Aeon: Muecke - What Aboriginal people know about the pathways of knowledge: 11/11/2020232
- Aeon: Video - The five-minute museum: 09/11/2020233
- Aeon: Video - Roger Penrose: Why did the universe begin?: 05/11/2020234
- Aeon: Video - Palenque: 04/11/2020235
- Aeon: Video - Visitors: 29/10/2020236
- Aeon: Simpson - When is it ethical to vote for ‘the lesser of two evils’?: 28/10/2020237
- Aeon: Video - De artificiali perspectiva, or anamorphosis: 27/10/2020238
- Aeon: Watts - Fiddling while Rome converts: 27/10/2020239
- Aeon: Video - The greatest Briton?: 22/10/2020240
- Aeon: Ogden - Being eaten: 08/10/2020241
- Aeon: Video - Newton's three-body problem: 29/09/2020242
- Aeon: Nadler - When to break a rule: 29/09/2020243
- Aeon: Hansen - Vikings in America: 22/09/2020244
- Aeon: Dahl - Young children use reason, not gut feelings, to decide moral issues: 16/09/2020245
- Aeon: Video - Is our attention for sale?: 15/09/2020246
- Aeon: Elliot - Origin story: 08/09/2020247
- Aeon: Hazrat - A history of punctuation: 03/09/2020248
- Aeon: Video - Mary's Room: 03/09/2020249
- Aeon: Flack & Mitchell - Uncertain times: 21/08/2020250
- Aeon: Dresser - How to not fear your death: 19/08/2020251
- Aeon: Video - The Fayum portraits: 17/08/2020252
- Aeon: Duckworth - Catastrophes and calms: 13/08/2020253
- Aeon: Copeland - DNA testing is easy. It can also turn your family upside down: 12/08/2020254
- Aeon: McMaster - What rude jibes about Caesar tell us about sex in ancient Rome: 12/08/2020255
- Aeon: Weidman - Do humans really have a killer instinct or is that just manly fancy?: 11/08/2020256
- Aeon: Video - Susan Greenfield on neuronal assemblies: 11/08/2020257
- Aeon: Townsend - How Aztecs told history: 10/08/2020258
- Aeon: Video - Plato's alegory of the cave: 10/08/2020259
- Aeon: Little & Backus - Confidence tricks: 07/08/2020260
- Aeon: Press - Mummies among us: 06/08/2020261
- Aeon: Video - Solos: 06/08/2020262
- Aeon: Edison - True musical virtuosos are minimalists who put roll before rock: 05/08/2020263
- Aeon: Video - The meaning of a monument: 04/08/2020264
- Aeon: Dingemanse - The space between our heads: 04/08/2020265
- Aeon: Video - Oppy: The life of a rover: 03/08/2020266
- Aeon: Stonebridge - The plague novel you need to read is by Bachmann, not Camus: 03/08/2020267
- Aeon: Mack - Big space: 31/07/2020268
- Aeon: Video - All inclusive: 30/07/2020269
- Aeon: Jarrett - How to read more books: 29/07/2020270
- Aeon: MacLeod - In an unstable economy, I found freedom and security in sex work: 29/07/2020271
- Aeon: Herz - Introverts are excluded unfairly in an extraverts’ world: 29/07/2020272
- Aeon: Fine - Sexual dinosaurs: 28/07/2020273
- Aeon: Video - Time-based currency by Robert Owen: 28/07/2020274
- Aeon: Video - In the wake: 27/07/2020275
- Aeon: Zucca - Much ado about uncertainty: how Shakespeare navigates doubt: 27/07/2020276
- Aeon: Cooperrider - Hand to mouth: 24/07/2020277
- Aeon: Ghosh - Counting China: 23/07/2020278
- Aeon: Temkin - How to interpret historical analogies: 22/07/2020279
- Aeon: Platts-Mills - On Matthew’s mind: 17/07/2020280
- Aeon: Owen - The inward gaze: 16/07/2020281
- Aeon: Davis - Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress: 14/07/2020282
- Aeon: Daut - The king of Haiti’s dream: 14/07/2020283
- Aeon: Davies - Here be black holes: 13/07/2020284
- Aeon: Kim - From vice to crime: 09/07/2020285
- Aeon: Video - Peter and Ben: 09/07/2020286
- Aeon: Hughes - How to choose a bottle of wine: 08/07/2020287
- Aeon: Summers - Why won’t the sin wash away? When thinking ethically goes awry: 08/07/2020288
- Aeon: Video - The paradox of the ravens: 06/07/2020289
- Aeon: Black - Unboxing mental health: 06/07/2020290
- Aeon: Woodruff - The face of the fish: 03/07/2020291
- Aeon: Kachru - Ashoka’s moral empire: 02/07/2020292
- Aeon: Video - How we build perception from the inside out: 30/06/2020293
- Aeon: Orent - Stealth infections: 30/06/2020294
- Aeon: Agostini & Thrope - This is not the end. Apocalyptic comfort from ancient Iran: 30/06/2020295
- Aeon: Video - Making music from brainwaves and heartbeats: 26/06/2020296
- Aeon: Skibba - Does dark matter exist?: 25/06/2020297
- Aeon: Frankish - Our greatest invention was the invention of invention itself: 24/06/2020298
- Aeon: Dresser - Peak ellipsis: 23/06/2020299
- Aeon: Video - The fist of modernity: 23/06/2020300
- Aeon: Vince - Ancient yet cosmopolitan: 18/06/2020301
- Aeon: Bowles - Learning Nahuatl, the flower song, and the poetics of life: 16/06/2020302
- Aeon: Video - The secret history of the Moon: 16/06/2020303
- Aeon: Sha - Neuroscience has much to learn from Hume’s philosophy of emotions: 15/06/2020304
- Aeon: Studebaker - The ungoverned globe: 15/06/2020305
- Aeon: Dyzenhaus - Lawyer for the strongman: 12/06/2020306
- Aeon: Melechi - Beware of lateral thinking: 11/06/2020307
- Aeon: Foulkes - Ever taken pleasure in another’s pain? That’s ‘everyday sadism’: 10/06/2020308
- Aeon: Apperly - Gentileschi. Let us not allow sexual violence to define the artist: 10/06/2020309
- Aeon: Happe - Autistic people shouldn’t have to use ‘camouflage’ to fit in: 09/06/2020310
- Aeon: Ellis - From chaos to free will: 09/06/2020311
- Aeon: Vinocour - Criminally insane: 08/06/2020312
- Aeon: Horn - The history of the incubator makes a sideshow of mothering: 03/06/2020313
- Aeon: Hui - In praise of aphorisms: 01/06/2020314
- Aeon: Williams - The fight for ‘Anglo-Saxon’: 29/05/2020315
- Aeon: Wilson - The trolley problem problem: 28/05/2020316
- Aeon: Rees - The good scientist: 26/05/2020317
- Aeon: Russell - Vice dressed as virtue: 22/05/2020318
- Aeon: Nuttall - On gibberish: 21/05/2020319
- Aeon: Liu - Tea and capitalism: 19/05/2020320
- Aeon: Leppin - As the Ancient Greeks knew, frankness is an essential virtue: 18/05/2020321
- Aeon: Eden - Cigarette! Exquisite fiend, ephemeral friend, how I miss you: 18/05/2020322
- Aeon: Frohlich - Frames of consciousness: 18/05/2020323
- Aeon: Stinson - Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past: 15/05/2020324
- Aeon: Stegenga - Gentle medicine could radically transform medical practice: 13/05/2020325
- Aeon: Rees - Are there laws of history?: 12/05/2020326
- Aeon: Video - Detachment, objectivity, imagination: a critique: 08/05/2020327
- Aeon: Ferracioli - For a child, being carefree is intrinsic to a well-lived life: 08/05/2020328
- Aeon: Manion - Female husbands: 07/05/2020329
- Aeon: Ward - Sooner or later we all face death. Will a sense of meaning help us?: 06/05/2020330
- Aeon: Baggott - How science fails: 05/05/2020331
- Aeon: Video - Leonard Susskind - Why do we search for symmetry?: 01/05/2020332
- Aeon: Ellis - Philosophy cannot resolve the question ‘How should we live?’: 01/05/2020333
- Aeon: Video - Three ways to smell cancer: 29/04/2020334
- Aeon: Martinho-Truswell - We need highly formal rituals in order to make life more democratic: 29/04/2020335
- Aeon: Camporesi - It didn’t have to be this way: 27/04/2020336
- Aeon: Lopez-Cantero - Your love story is a narrative that gets written in tandem: 27/04/2020337
- Aeon: Video - Do I see what you see?: 22/04/2020338
- Aeon: Schoenfield - Why do you believe what you do? Run some diagnostics on it: 22/04/2020339
- Aeon: Krakauer - At the limits of thought: 20/04/2020340
- Aeon: Schechter - What we can learn about respect and identity from ‘plurals’: 20/04/2020341
- Aeon: Video - Test subjects: 17/04/2020342
- Aeon: Broks - Unholy anorexia: 16/04/2020343
- Aeon: Jones & Paris - How dystopian narratives can incite real-world radicalism: 15/04/2020344
- Aeon: Heneghan - Is there a limit to optimism when it comes to climate change?: 13/04/2020345
- Aeon: Levy-Eichel - I was homeschooled for eight years: here’s what I recommend: 10/04/2020346
- Aeon: Video - Ball - Understanding quantum entanglement: 10/04/2020347
- Aeon: Contera - Engines of life: 09/04/2020348
- Aeon: Nguyen - Time alone (chosen or not) can be a chance to hit the reset button: 08/04/2020349
- Aeon: Wellmon - The scholar’s vocation: 07/04/2020350
- Aeon: Bond - We are wayfinders: 06/04/2020351
- Aeon: Gordin - Identifying Einstein: 02/04/2020352
- Aeon: Video - 9at38: 01/04/2020353
- Aeon: Isaacs - Chemobrain is real. Here’s what to expect after cancer treatment: 01/04/2020354
- Aeon: Barwich - It’s hard to fool a nose: 30/03/2020355
- Aeon: Wojtowicz - If all our actions are shaped by luck, are we still agents?: 25/03/2020356
- Aeon: Video - Soft awareness: 25/03/2020357
- Aeon: Harlitz-Kern - To see the antisemitism of medieval bestiaries, look for the owl: 24/03/2020358
- Aeon: Parks & Manzotti - You are the world: 23/03/2020359
- Aeon: Video - Do you have imposter syndrome: 20/03/2020360
- Aeon: Ho - No patient is an island: 19/03/2020361
- Aeon: Dubal - Against humanity: 18/03/2020362
- Aeon: Mishra - Talent, you’re born with. Creativity, you can grow yourself: 18/03/2020363
- Aeon: Video - The solar do-nothing machine: 18/03/2020364
- Aeon: Rolston - Don’t take life so seriously: Montaigne’s lessons on the inner life: 17/03/2020365
- Imperial - Impact of NPIs to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand: 17/03/2020366
- Aeon: David - Patient, know thyself: how insight helps to treat psychosis: 16/03/2020367
- Aeon: Video - The researcher's article: 13/03/2020368
- Aeon: Hanna - Whose limb is it anyway? On the ethics of body-part disposal: 13/03/2020369
- Aeon: Hochman - Is ‘race’ modern?: 12/03/2020370
- Aeon: Mauch - Slow hope: 11/03/2020371
- Aeon: Cottingham - What is the soul if not a better version of ourselves?: 11/03/2020372
- Aeon: Jaarsma - Choose your own birth: 10/03/2020373
- Aeon: Gutmann - Testosterone is widely, and sometimes wildly, misunderstood: 10/03/2020374
- Aeon: Wu - Hypocognition is a censorship tool that mutes what we can feel: 09/03/2020375
- Aeon: Vandergheynst & Vonèche Cardia - Why lifelong learning is the international passport to success: 06/03/2020376
- Aeon: Morus - Supermensch: 05/03/2020377
- Aeon: Frances - The lure of ‘cool’ brain research is stifling psychotherapy: 04/03/2020378
- Aeon: Dashan - It is not you, but existence itself, that is fundamentally unsound: 02/03/2020379
- Aeon: Andrews & Monso - Rats are us: 02/03/2020380
- Aeon: Video - What is déjà vu?: 02/03/2020381
- Aeon: Video - Walk: 28/02/2020382
- Aeon: Video - Musical traumas: 27/02/2020383
- Aeon: Gertz - Nihilism: 27/02/2020384
- Aeon: Wayland-Smith - This ragged claw: 26/02/2020385
- Aeon: Robinson - Would you rather have a fish or know how to fish?: 26/02/2020386
- Aeon: Asma - Ancient animistic beliefs live on in our intimacy with tech: 25/02/2020387
- Aeon: Video - Chunyun: 25/02/2020388
- Aeon: Longworth - The ethics of speech acts: 25/02/2020389
- Aeon: Heneghan - A place of silence: 24/02/2020390
- Aeon: Video - A Jew walks into a bar: 21/02/2020391
- Aeon: Tracy - Find something morally sickening? Take a ginger pill: 21/02/2020392
- Aeon: Evans - Perennial philosophy: 19/02/2020393
- Aeon: Green - A psychiatric diagnosis can be more than an unkind ‘label’: 18/02/2020394
- Aeon: Greenberg - This mortal coil: 12/02/2020395
- Aeon: Video - The hairy Nobel: 10/02/2020396
- Aeon: Kaufman - Neither person nor cadaver: 06/02/2020397
- Aeon: Video - The viral origins of the placenta: 04/02/2020398
- Aeon: Madison - Investigating Homo floresiensis and the myth of the ebu gogo: 03/02/2020399
- Aeon: Klein - The politics of logic: 03/02/2020400
- Aeon: Video - Norman, norman: 31/01/2020401
- Aeon: Video - The mushroom hunters: 30/01/2020402
- Aeon: Maskivker - Given how little effect you can have, is it rational to vote?: 29/01/2020403
- Aeon: Trivellato - The rumour about the Jews: 28/01/2020404
- Aeon: Thomas - Before, now, and next: 23/01/2020405
- Aeon: Green - Africa, in its fullness: 16/01/2020406
- Aeon: Sebo - All we owe to animals: 15/01/2020407
- Aeon: Paik - Robogamis are the real heirs of terminators and transformers: 10/01/2020408
- Aeon: Video - Wolf pack: 09/01/2020409
- Aeon: Lenz - The adversarial culture in philosophy does not serve the truth: 08/01/2020410
- Aeon: Sommer - Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences: 06/01/2020411
- Aeon: Video - Spinoza's 'Ethics' - what do you mean by 'God': 20/12/2019412
- Aeon: Isaac - Is artificial-womb technology a tool for women’s liberation?: 18/12/2019413
- Aeon: Video - Polyphonic Mozart: 17/12/2019414
- Aeon: Pigliucci - Consciousness is real: 16/12/2019415
- Aeon: Gross - How pottering about in the garden creates a time warp: 13/12/2019416
- Aeon: Lane - Rules or citizens?: 12/12/2019417
- Aeon: Lyons - Philosopher of the human: 10/12/2019418
- Aeon: Video - Mary Beard: women and power: 09/12/2019419
- Aeon: Egan - Is there anything especially expert about being a philosopher?: 06/12/2019420
- Aeon: Video - Julian Barbour: what is time?: 06/12/2019421
- Aeon: Video - The driver is red: 05/12/2019422
- Aeon: Labaree - Pluck versus luck: 04/12/2019423
- Aeon: Pogosyan - Why learning a new language is like an illicit love affair: 04/12/2019424
- Aeon: Sayare - Consider the axolotl: our great hope of regeneration?: 27/11/2019425
- Aeon: Hekman - Canine exceptionalism: 25/11/2019426
- Aeon: Video - Finkel - Cuneiform writing with Irving Finkel: 22/11/2019427
- Aeon: Jarrett - Trigger warnings don’t help people cope with distressing material: 22/11/2019428
- Aeon: McLeish - Science + religion: 21/11/2019429
- Aeon: Pyne - The planet is burning: 20/11/2019430
- Aeon: Stone - Thinking about one’s birth is as uncanny as thinking of death: 20/11/2019431
- Aeon: Matthews - What is to be done about the problem of creepy men?: 15/11/2019432
- Aeon: Video - Walter Lippmann - public opinion and propaganda: 14/11/2019433
- Aeon: Hall - Classics for the people: 13/11/2019434
- Aeon: Irish - The self in dementia is not lost, and can be reached with care: 13/11/2019435
- Aeon: Video - I came from the unknown to sing: 11/11/2019436
- Aeon: Degroot - Little Ice Age lessons: 11/11/2019437
- Aeon: Video - Do you think science can understand everything?: 08/11/2019438
- Aeon: Vernon - Divine transports: 07/11/2019439
- Aeon: Vallgarda - Keeping secrets: 06/11/2019440
- Aeon: Video - Donald Hoffman - The Case Against Reality: 05/11/2019441
- Aeon: Baillie - We all know that we will die, so why do we struggle to believe it?: 04/11/2019442
- Aeon: Demuth - Turn and live with animals: 29/10/2019443
- Aeon: Ward - Mistaken: 28/10/2019444
- Aeon: Video - Raymond Tallis - What is Extended Mind: 25/10/2019445
- Aeon: Sebens - What’s everything made of?: 24/10/2019446
- Aeon: Morell - What do mirror tests test?: 23/10/2019447
- Aeon: Video - Turns out that, even when Einstein was wrong, he was kind of right: 22/10/2019448
- Aeon: McAndrew - Houses of horror: 21/10/2019449
- Aeon: Video - Neurosymphony: 18/10/2019450
- Aeon: Burton - To make laziness work for you, put some effort into it: 11/10/2019451
- Aeon: Van der Horst - The Bible’s first critic: 09/10/2019452
- Aeon: Baggott - But is it science?: 07/10/2019453
- Aeon: Stark - My autism journey: how I learned to stop trying to fit in: 02/10/2019454
- Aeon: Frankish - The consciousness illusion: 26/09/2019455
- Aeon: Video - The Infamous Windmill Problem: 20/09/2019456
- Aeon: Spiegelhalter - Citizens need to know numbers: 16/09/2019457
- Aeon: Pariseau - How a scientific attempt to demystify Buddhist meditation yielded astounding results: 16/09/2019458
- Aeon: McLeish - Science is deeply imaginative: 13/09/2019459
- Aeon: Eagleman - Why time seems to fly as you get older: 13/09/2019460
- Aeon: Costandi - Against neurodiversity: 12/09/2019461
- Aeon: Mynott - Birds are ‘winged words’: 10/09/2019462
- Aeon: Video - Crannog: 09/09/2019463
- Aeon: Stern - The way words mean: 03/09/2019464
- Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality: 19/08/2019465
- Aeon: Video - ‘You wanna get rid of me?’ When the time comes to move mom into assisted living: 18/07/2019466
- Aeon: Victoria - Zen terror: 10/07/2019467
- Aeon: Pigliucci - Richard Feynman was wrong about beauty and truth in science: 28/06/2019468
- Aeon: Lachmann & Walker - Life ≠ alive: 24/06/2019469
- Aeon: Video - Hoplites! Greeks at war: 23/05/2019470
- Aeon: Marino - Eating someone: 08/05/2019471
- Aeon: Video - The Vinland Mystery: 06/05/2019472
- Aeon: Pettinen - Will we ever know the difference between a wolf and a dog?: 29/04/2019473
- Aeon: Video - The beauty of gefilte fish: 19/04/2019474
- Aeon: Video - Devenir: 15/04/2019475
- Aeon: Video - How ISPs violate the laws of mathematics: 18/03/2019476
- Aeon: Pitock - Here’s to naps and snoozes: 12/03/2019477
- Aeon: Video - Rediscovering Ancient Greek music: 12/03/2019478
- Aeon: Alter - How translation obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible: 27/02/2019479
- Aeon: Isbell - How seeing snakes in the grass helped primates to evolve: 05/02/2019480
- Aeon: Svoboda - The broad, ragged cut: 03/12/2018481
- Aeon: Mitchell - Wired that way: genes do shape behaviours but it’s complicated: 30/11/2018482
- Aeon: Chittka & Wilson - Bee-brained: 27/11/2018483
- Aeon: Baggott - What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’: 21/11/2018484
- Aeon: Video - Mobilize: 14/09/2018485
- Aeon: Brewer - Slavery-entangled philosophy: 12/09/2018486
- Aeon: Baggini - Hume the humane: 15/08/2018487
- Aeon: D'Angour - Can we know what music sounded like in Ancient Greece?: 08/08/2018488
- Aeon: Law - Do you see a duck or a rabbit: just what is aspect perception?: 31/07/2018489
- Aeon: Aronson & Duportail - The quantified heart: 12/07/2018490
- Aeon: Purcell - Life on the slippery Earth: 03/07/2018491
- Aeon: Callcut - What are we?: 11/06/2018492
- Aeon: Hall - Why read Aristotle today?: 29/05/2018493
- Aeon: Rachlin - Teleological behaviourism or what it means to imagine a lion: 25/05/2018494
- Aeon: Pierre - Die like a dog: 15/05/2018495
- Aeon: Whitmarsh - Black Achilles: 09/05/2018496
- Aeon: Kasmirli - What we say vs what we mean: what is conversational implicature?: 20/04/2018497
- Aeon: Pessoa - Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel: 13/04/2018498
- Aeon: Smithsimon - How to see race: 26/03/2018499
- Aeon: Temkin - What’s the best option?: 13/03/2018500
- Aeon: Robinson - Thus spake Albert: 12/03/2018501
- Aeon: Han - The copy is the original: 08/03/2018502
- Aeon: Olberding - The outsider: 06/03/2018503
- Aeon: Russell - Philosophical intuition: just what is ‘a priori’ justification?: 02/03/2018504
- Aeon: Rees - Animal agents: 26/02/2018505
- Aeon: Video - Why dogs have floppy ears: 23/02/2018506
- Aeon: Bier - The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory: 14/02/2018507
- Aeon: Video - The ladybug love-in: 13/02/2018508
- Aeon: Metzinger - Are you sleepwalking now?: 22/01/2018509
- Aeon: Video - All what is somehow useful: 12/01/2018510
- Aeon: de Zavala - Why collective narcissists are so politically volatile: 12/01/2018511
- Aeon: Rowland - We are multitudes: 11/01/2018512
- Aeon: Evans - The autism paradox: 08/01/2018513
- Aeon: Ruggles - The minds of plants: 12/12/2017514
- Aeon: Video - Are university admissions biased?: 08/12/2017515
- Aeon: Video - Confucian ancestor worship: 12/10/2017516
- Aeon: Video - Lan Yan: 08/09/2017517
- Aeon: Video - Birth of a bee: 31/07/2017518
- Aeon: Video - Nuttag - Homeland: 27/07/2017519
- Aeon: Video - George Saunders: on story: 25/07/2017520
- Aeon: Smith - For centuries European aristocrats proudly claimed foreign ancestry: 05/06/2017521
- Aeon: Video - People in order: age: 28/04/2017522
- Aeon: Video - Animated life: Pangea, Wegener and the continental drift: 24/04/2017523
- Aeon: Aamodt - On shared false memories: 15/02/2017524
- Aeon: Lemonick - Living in the now: 13/02/2017525
- Aeon: Video - The 'evil god challenge': 07/02/2017526
- Aeon: Colombo - Why children ask ‘Why?’ and what makes a good explanation: 01/02/2017527
- Aeon: Video - Sartre vs Camus: 27/01/2017528
- Aeon: Video - Seeing the invisible: van Leeuwenhoek's first glimpses of the microbial world: 23/01/2017529
- Aeon: Okoro - This is your morning: 19/01/2017530
- Aeon: Video - Territory: 10/01/2017531
- Aeon: Delistraty - Drugs du jour: 04/01/2017532
- Aeon: Video - Teaching Philosophy to Children: 15/12/2016533
- Aeon: Martinho-Truswell - The minds of other animals: 08/12/2016534
- Aeon: Video - Smith - Aristotle was wrong and so are we: there are far more than five senses: 01/11/2016535
- Aeon: Taylor - The examined life: 06/10/2016536
- Aeon: Brennan - The right to vote should be restricted to those with knowledge: 29/09/2016537
- Aeon: Video - Further - Seth Shostak: 23/09/2016538
- Aeon: Young & Priest - It is and it isn’t: 22/09/2016539
- Aeon: Video - Hopper's Nighthawks: look through the window: 13/09/2016540
- Aeon: Video - Slingshots of the oceanic: 12/09/2016541
- Aeon: Francione & Charlton - The case against pets: 08/09/2016542
- Aeon: Video - Powers of ten: 19/08/2016543
- Aeon: Spinney - The twin boom: 18/08/2016544
- Aeon: Potts - Charisma is a mysterious and dangerous gift: 03/08/2016545
- Aeon: Video - Triangle of power: 21/07/2016546
- Aeon: Devji - Against Muslim unity: 12/07/2016547
- Aeon: Video - The ray-cat solution: 11/07/2016548
- Aeon: Video - Onbashira Matsuri, Japan: 24/06/2016549
- Aeon: Stallard - The outsiders: 01/06/2016550
- Aeon: Root-Gutteridge - The songs of the wolves: 25/05/2016551
- Aeon: Bari - What do clothes say?: 19/05/2016552
- Aeon: Video - Letting you go: 16/05/2016553
- Aeon: Tesfaye - What amnesiacs tell us about memory: Q&A with Brenda Milner: 16/05/2016554
- Aeon: Video - The story of zero: getting something from nothing: 06/05/2016555
- Aeon: McGowan - Silicon phoenix: 02/05/2016556
- Aeon: Video - The need for a new bioethics: 02/05/2016557
- Aeon: Tracy - A science without time: 25/04/2016558
- Aeon: Ojiaku - Is everybody a racist?: 21/03/2016559
- Aeon: Charney - A fake of art: 05/02/2016560
- Aeon: George - How looting in Iraq unearthed the treasures of Gilgamesh: 05/02/2016561
- Aeon: Law - Belief in supernatural beings is totally natural – and false: 15/12/2015562
- Aeon: Barash - Paradigms lost: 27/10/2015563
- Aeon: Video - The Feynman Series - Beauty: 23/10/2015564
- Aeon: Video - What really happens when we talk: 12/10/2015565
- Aeon: Video - Dabbawalla: 01/10/2015566
- Aeon: Video - The Big Bang: 09/09/2015567
- Aeon: Malchik - The end of walking: 20/08/2015568
- Aeon: Video - Kempelen's chess-playing automaton: 03/08/2015569
- Aeon: Frisch - Why things happen: 23/06/2015570
- Aeon: Video - The truffle hunters: 02/06/2015571
- Aeon: Video - The death of Socrates: 12/05/2015572
- Aeon: Video - Daniel Levitin on information overload: 07/04/2015573
- Aeon: Video - Unravel: 02/04/2015574
- Aeon: Video - Epigenome - the symphony in your cells: 24/03/2015575
- Aeon: Video - The odd tale of the clever octopus: 20/03/2015576
- Aeon: Flora - How luck works: 06/03/2015577
- Aeon: Video - The animal that wouldn't die: 16/01/2015578
- Aeon: Video - The German who came to tea: 23/12/2014579
- Aeon: Clary - Talk like an Egyptian: 12/12/2014580
- Aeon: Video - Creo: 04/12/2014581
- Aeon: Evans - Real talk: 04/12/2014582
- Aeon: Hanlon - The golden quarter: 03/12/2014583
- Aeon: Video - X-Ray Man: 14/11/2014584
- Aeon: Smith - The essence of evil: 24/10/2014585
- Aeon: Video - My favorite picture of you: 08/10/2014586
- Aeon: Talbot - The good death: 25/09/2014587
- Aeon: Video - Internet archive: 28/08/2014588
- Aeon: Graziano - The first smile: 13/08/2014589
- Aeon: Video - Danielle: 16/07/2014590
- Aeon: Video - Why do I study physics?: 02/05/2014591
- Aeon: Video - Devil in the room: 04/04/2014592
- Aeon: Francis - Is this life real?: 21/01/2014593
- Aeon: Flyn - Last supper: 24/12/2013594
- Aeon: Keim - I, cockroach: 19/11/2013595
- Aeon: Gregg - Keep smiling: 05/11/2013596
- Aeon: Gray - The play deficit: 18/09/2013597
- Aeon: Rowlands - A right to believe?: 20/05/2013598
- Aeon: Kohn - The Neanderthal mind: 15/05/2013599
- Aeon: Gamble - The end of sleep?: 10/04/2013600
- Aeon: Blum - The white man Jesus: 08/04/2013601
- Aeon: Vernon - What is love?: 13/02/2013602
- Aeon: Davis - Trickster and tricked: 18/01/2013603
- Aeon: Kohn - Us and them: 10/01/2013604
- Aeon: Vedral - What life wants: 27/11/2012605
- Aeon: Hanlon - World next door: 06/11/2012606
Items Not Yet Read
- Priority: 1
- Aeon: Video - The Hereford map: 16/03/2023 (WebRef=12524, Unread, Priority=1)
→ The famed medieval map that stretched beyond Earth to heaven, history and myth
- Aeon: Video - Accounts of a nuclear whistleblower: 07/03/2023 (WebRef=12517, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Meet the man who uncovered the scandal of nuclear testing in South Australia
- Aeon: Video - How do we know what's real?: 02/03/2023 (PID Note: Quantum Mechanics607) (WebRef=12509, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Why aren’t our everyday lives as ‘spooky’ as the quantum world?
- Aeon: Saraceni - The problem with English: 16/03/2023 (Mario Saraceni) (WebRef=12525, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Is Earth’s most-spoken language a living ‘gift’ or a many-headed ‘monster’? Both views distract us from the real dilemma
- Aeon: Star - How the ancient philosophers imagined the end of the world: 15/03/2023 (Christopher Star) (WebRef=12526, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: David - At the Kremlin in 1943: 13/03/2023 (Kathryn David) (WebRef=12531, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Stalin presented Orthodox leaders with a proposal: the Soviet state that had destroyed their Church would bring it back
- Aeon: Webb - Cosmic vision: 10/03/2023 (Claire Isabel Webb) (PID Note: Transhumanism608) (WebRef=12512, Unread, Priority=1)
→ By showing us a new cosmos, the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our moral universe
- Aeon: Pierce - Where went the wolf?: 09/03/2023 (Jessica Pierce) (PID Note: Animal Rights609) (WebRef=12515, Unread, Priority=1)
→ The very attributes that make small dogs cute and popular are slowly strangling their ability to function as real animals
- Aeon: Low-Scott - How to be a better loser: 08/03/2023 (Blakely Low-Scott) (WebRef=12516, Unread, Priority=1)
→ As a competitor, you can’t avoid the hurt of losing. But you can learn ways to bounce back stronger and more motivated
- Aeon: Windt - Personal transformation can start with a whisper, not a bang: 08/03/2023 (Jennifer Windt) (PID Note: Narrative Identity610) (WebRef=12514, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Jabbari - After the mother tongues: 07/03/2023 (Alexander Jabbari) (WebRef=12519, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Cultural exchange between Iran and India led to the creation of literary histories that inspired modern nationalism
- Aeon: Masland & Peeples - People with BPD need compassion yet even clinicians stigmatise them: 07/03/2023 (Sara Rose Masland & Hannah E.A. Peeples) (PID Note: Psychopathology611) (WebRef=12518, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Machek - What’s a life worth living? For the ancients, it depends: 06/03/2023 (David Machek) (PID Note: Narrative Identity612) (WebRef=12521, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Penaluna - Masham and me: 03/03/2023 (Regan Penaluna) (PID Note: Locke613) (WebRef=12508, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Were it not for her friendship with John Locke, the radical feminist gems of philosopher Damaris Masham might be unknown
- Aeon: Wright - There’s a reason some of us find it easier to change than others: 01/03/2023 (Amanda J. Wright) (PID Note: Personality614) (WebRef=12510, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Harvey - Medieval babycare: 27/02/2023 (Catherine Harvey) (WebRef=12507, Unread, Priority=1)
→ From mansplaining about breastfeeding to debates on developmental toys, medieval parenting was full of familiar dilemmas
- Aeon: Misgar - Wielding death: 24/02/2023 (Umar Lateef Misgar) (PID Note: Death615) (WebRef=12493, Unread, Priority=1)
→ When everyday life is marked by oppression and violence, can a martyr’s death truly be an act of freedom and resistance?
- Aeon: Andrews & Birch - What has feelings?: 23/02/2023 (Kristin Andrews & Jonathan Birch) (PID Note: Consciousness616) (WebRef=12495, Unread, Priority=1)
→ As the power of AI grows, we need to have evidence of its sentience. That is why we must return to the minds of animals
- Aeon: Leong & Chee - How to nap: 22/02/2023 (Ruth Leong & Michael Chee) (PID Note: Sleep617) (WebRef=12484, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Whether it’s to recover after a late night or to boost your learning abilities, there’s a science to napping effectively
- Aeon: Devgun - Why psychological research on child sex offenders is important: 22/02/2023 (Meetali Devgun) (PID Note: Psychopathology618) (WebRef=12494, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Torres - The ethics of human extinction: 20/02/2023 (Emile P. Torres) (WebRef=12490, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Why would it be so bad if our species came to an end? It is a question that reveals our latent values and hidden fears
- Aeon: Lencz & Carmi - Selected before birth: 17/02/2023 (Todd Lencz & Shai Carmi) (PID Note: Embryo619) (WebRef=12472, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Embryo risk screening could lower the odds of illnesses ranging from depression to diabetes. Can it be ethically done?
- Aeon: Agadjanian - If racial identity can be fluid, who changes their race?: 14/02/2023 (Alexander Agadjanian) (PID Note: Race620) (WebRef=12478, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Nowell - Children of the Ice Age: 13/02/2023 (April Nowell) (PID Note: Evolution621) (WebRef=12482, Unread, Priority=1)
→ With the help of new archaeological approaches, our picture of young lives in the Palaeolithic is now marvellously vivid
- Aeon: Godfrey-Smith - If not vegan, then what?: 10/02/2023 (Peter Godfrey-Smith) (PID Note: Animal Rights622) (WebRef=12466, Unread, Priority=1)
→ A vegan diet can be hard to adopt, even if you’re convinced it’s the right thing to do. What are the next-best options?
- Aeon: Lupyan & Clark - Super-cooperators: 06/02/2023 (Gary Lupyan & Andy Clark) (PID Note: Transhumanism623) (WebRef=12464, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Clear and direct telepathic communication is unlikely to be developed. But brain-to-brain links still hold great promise
- Aeon: Ranaee - Known unknowables: 31/01/2023 (Mahdi Ranaee) (WebRef=12454, Unread, Priority=1)
→ The ancient Sceptics used doubt as a way of investigating the world. Later thinkers undermined even that possibility
- Aeon: McConnell - The Rift: 30/01/2023 (Tristan McConnell) (PID Note: Evolution624) (WebRef=12456, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Splitting the African continent, it is the only place where our human story can be read continuously from the very start
- Aeon: Grant - My blackness: 27/01/2023 (Colin Grant) (PID Note: Race625) (WebRef=12434, Unread, Priority=1)
→ At times I’ve tried to escape it. Other times I’ve embraced it. But at all times, people have attempted to define me by it
- Aeon: McLamore - Disarming transphobia: 25/01/2023 (Quinnehtukqut McLamore) (PID Note: Narrative Identity626) (WebRef=12432, Unread, Priority=1)
→ ‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ is a popular weapon in the anti-trans arsenal. It is nothing but unscientific bunk
- Aeon: Scott - How to get to know all (the parts) of you: 25/01/2023 (Derek Scott) (PID Note: Narrative Identity627) (WebRef=12426, Unread, Priority=1)
→ An emerging form of psychotherapy offers some surprising ways to think about who you are and work towards self-acceptance
- Aeon: Levy - Why AI surveillance at work leads to perverse outcomes: 25/01/2023 (Karen Levy) (PID Note: Computers628) (WebRef=12436, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Baggini - Goodbye Pixel: 24/01/2023 (Julian Baggini) (PID Note: Death629) (WebRef=12429, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Although it felt more like bereavement for a person than the loss of a thing, the death of a pet isn’t exactly like either
- Aeon: Draycott - The other Cleopatra: 20/01/2023 (Jane Draycott) (WebRef=12404, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, she became the influential queen of a mysterious, abundant North African kingdom
- Aeon: Mireault - Born that way: 17/01/2023 (Gina Mireault) (PID Note: Narrative Identity630) (WebRef=12399, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Confident or shy, our temperament is mostly baked-in from birth. But how that influences our lives is up for grabs
- Aeon: Nicholson & Haywood - There’s no planet B: 16/01/2023 (Arwen E. Nicholson & Raphaelle D. Haywood) (WebRef=12402, Unread, Priority=1)
→ The scientific evidence is clear: the only celestial body that can support us is the one we evolved with. Here’s why
- Aeon: Taiwo - It never existed: 13/01/2023 (Olufemi Taiwo) (PID Note: Race631) (WebRef=12386, Unread, Priority=1)
→ The idea of a ‘precolonial’ Africa is theoretically vacuous, racist and plain wrong about the continent’s actual history
- Aeon: Boddice - The politics of pain: 03/01/2023 (Rob Boddice) (WebRef=12368, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Medical science can only tell us so much. To understand pain, we need the cultural tools of history, philosophy and art
- Aeon: Terzian & Corbalán - Do you have a duty to tell people they’re wrong about carrots?: 21/12/2022 (Giulia Terzian & M. Ines Corbalan) (WebRef=12353, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Hershovitz - How to do philosophy with kids: 21/12/2022 (Scott Hershovitz) (WebRef=12346, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Embrace their questions, no matter how daft or daunting – kids are natural philosophers and you can learn from each other
- Aeon: Simon - If animals are persons, should they bear criminal responsibility?: 21/12/2022 (Ed Simon) (PID Note: Animals632) (WebRef=12345, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Cain - The immortalists have got it wrong – here’s why we need death: 14/12/2022 (Susan Cain) (PID Note: Death633) (WebRef=12333, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Case - Where God dwelt: 02/12/2022 (Stephen Case) (PID Note: Religion634) (WebRef=12306, Unread, Priority=1)
→ For hundreds of years, Christians knew exactly where heaven was: above us and above the stars. Then came the new cosmologists
- Aeon: Wyatt & Ulatowski - How to think about truth: 30/11/2022 (Jeremy Wyatt & Joseph Ulatowski) (WebRef=12299, Unread, Priority=1)
→ In a world of disagreement, what should you believe? These ideas will help you take a philosophically informed perspective
- Aeon: Uzan - Moral mathematics: 28/11/2022 (Elad Uzan) (WebRef=12304, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Subjecting the problems of ethics to the cool quantifications of logic and probability can help us to be better people
- Aeon: Fernandes - Wanderlust of the ancients: 24/11/2022 (Fabio Fernandes) (WebRef=12289, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Liggins - This essay isn’t true: 17/11/2022 (David Liggins) (WebRef=12275, Unread, Priority=1)
→ Alethic nihilism is the theory that nothing is true. There is much to gain by taking this radical idea seriously
- Aeon: King - Human exceptionalism imposes horrible costs on other animals: 01/11/2022 (Barbara J. King) (PID Note: Animal Rights635) (WebRef=12234, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Butterworth - A basic sense of numbers is shared by countless creatures: 12/10/2022 (Brian Butterworth) (PID Note: Animals636) (WebRef=12161, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Young - Time doesn’t flow like a river. So why do we feel swept along?: 21/09/2022 (Nick Young) (PID Note: Time637) (WebRef=12085, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Curry - Why academia should embrace ‘Grandma’s metaphysics’: 08/09/2022 (Devin Sanchez Curry) (PID Note: Metaphysics638) (WebRef=12007, Unread, Priority=1)
- Aeon: Requarth - Our chemical Eden: 11/01/2016 (Tim Requarth) (PID Note: Evolution639) (WebRef=12522, Unread, Priority=1)
→ To figure out the origin of life might take a conceptual shift towards seeing it as a pattern of molecular energy
- Aeon: Venkataraman - Lessons from the foragers: (Vivek V. Venkataraman) (PID Note: Evolution640) (WebRef=12511, Unread, Priority=1)
- Priority: 2
- Aeon: Video - The panopticon: 06/03/2023 (WebRef=12520, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Jeremy Bentham was consumed by creating a perfect prison. Here’s the result
- Aeon: Video - The fate of the wild: 27/02/2023 (PID Note: Animals641) (WebRef=12505, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Laura fights to protect the magnificence of wild horses running free
- Aeon: Video - The sights of space: a voyage to spectacular alien worlds: 21/02/2023 (WebRef=12485, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Burning ice, metal clouds, gemstone rain – tour the strangest known exoplanets
- Aeon: Video - Still the one: 20/02/2023 (PID Note: Narrative Identity642) (WebRef=12488, Unread, Priority=2)
→ ‘I didn’t fall in love with a couple of body pieces’ – on marriage and transition
- Aeon: Video - The doll: 26/01/2023 (PID Note: Narrative Identity643) (WebRef=12435, Unread, Priority=2)
→ At 14, Asal is excited about her engagement. Her relatives all have their own opinions
- Aeon: Video - Everything is going to be fine: 23/01/2023 (WebRef=12430, Unread, Priority=2)
→ What’s the healthiest way to handle a creeping feeling that the world is ending?
- Aeon: Video - London mudlark: 17/01/2023 (WebRef=12397, Unread, Priority=2)
→ From Roman pots to glass eyes, the shore of the river Thames teems with surprises
- Aeon: Video - Linda: 16/01/2023 (WebRef=12400, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Pondering the peculiar one-sided intimacy of the client-therapist relationship
- Aeon: Video - Second shot: 10/01/2023 (PID Note: Narrative Identity644) (WebRef=12379, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Thirty years after one teenager shot another, is it time to forgive?
- Aeon: Video - Chemical somnia: 03/01/2023 (WebRef=12367, Unread, Priority=2)
→ A square inch in a Petri dish becomes a grand stage for chemical transformations
- Aeon: Video - How to get better at video games (according to babies): 15/12/2022 (PID Note: Transhumanism645) (WebRef=12329, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Teaching an AI to beat video games still takes human imagination
- Aeon: Video - Goal: 14/12/2022 (WebRef=12327, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Bent out of shape by the surreal corporate dance towards success
- Aeon: Video - Believing is seeing: 13/12/2022 (PID Note: Transhumanism646) (WebRef=12334, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Social contagions can cause genuine illness, and TikTok may be a superspreader
- Aeon: Video - Violator: 12/12/2022 (PID Note: Psychopathology647) (WebRef=12337, Unread, Priority=2)
→ From violent criminal to loving parent – a son’s story of his father’s transformation
- Aeon: Video - The great abandonment: 08/12/2022 (WebRef=12320, Unread, Priority=2)
→ How the world’s harshest lockdown hit India’s millions of migrant workers
- Aeon: Video - The temple of knowledge: 05/12/2022 (WebRef=12315, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Ronald grew up in a New York City library. It was as strange and wondrous as it sounds
- Aeon: Video - Bernard Williams and Bryan Magee on Descartes: 24/11/2022 (Bryan Magee & Bernard Williams) (PID Note: Descartes648) (WebRef=12287, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Bernard Williams on Descartes’s audacious endeavour to prove knowledge is possible
- Aeon: Video - The love and death of Yosef and Zilli: 21/11/2022 (PID Note: Death649) (WebRef=12282, Unread, Priority=2)
→ When his elderly parents make a suicide pact, Doron struggles to accept their choice
- Aeon: Video - Obon: 17/11/2022 (PID Note: Narrative Identity650) (WebRef=12273, Unread, Priority=2)
→ What Akiko saw at the centre of the Hiroshima blast, and the indelible mark it left
- Aeon: Video - Using the Astronomicum Caesareum book: 03/11/2022 (WebRef=12240, Unread, Priority=2)
→ As corporations struggle to survive in a more uncertain world, they should look to the success of the Society of Jesus
- Aeon: Video - The science of symmetry: 31/10/2022 (PID Note: Animals651) (WebRef=12236, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Symmetry rules life on Earth – but it comes with many fascinating exceptions
- Aeon: Video - Moths and beetles in slow motion flight: 27/10/2022 (PID Note: Animals652) (WebRef=12224, Unread, Priority=2)
→ There’s no one way for an insect to fly, but they’re all amazing in close up and slo-mo
- Aeon: Video - World of tomorrow: 26/10/2022 (PID Note: Transhumanism653) (WebRef=12222, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Stick figures meet existential angst in this acclaimed, darkly comedic short
- Aeon: Video - Dream city: more, better, sooner: 05/10/2022 (WebRef=12147, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Video - Brilliant noise: 03/10/2022 (WebRef=12121, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Raw solar-storm footage is the punk-rock antidote to sleek James Webb imagery
- Aeon: Video - Wrought: 29/09/2022 (WebRef=12124, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Dazzling timelapse shows how microbes spoil our food – and sometimes enrich it
- Aeon: Video - Drawing on autism: 27/09/2022 (PID Note: Psychopathology654) (WebRef=12111, Unread, Priority=2)
→ An animator wonders: can you ever depict someone without making them a caricature?
- Aeon: Video - Tuesday afternoon: 21/09/2022 (WebRef=12092, Unread, Priority=2)
→ After decades in prison, Jack navigates the strange, beautiful outside world
- Aeon: Video - Life as a Victorian teenager: 20/09/2022 (WebRef=12087, Unread, Priority=2)
→ From manners to mud – two women recall coming of age in Victorian London
- Aeon: Video - Why whale song is like pop music: 12/09/2022 (PID Note: Animals655) (WebRef=12030, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Like pop music, humpback whale songs spread, mutate, and fall out of fashion
- Aeon: Video - Mother and baby: 06/09/2022 (WebRef=12006, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The staggering cruelty of Ireland’s Church-run ‘mother and baby homes’
- Aeon: Video - Peter Singer on Hegel and Marx: 05/09/2022 (Bryan Magee & Peter Singer) (WebRef=12009, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Peter Singer charts the path from Hegelian philosophy to Marxist revolution
- Aeon: Video - Welcome to the pros: 29/08/2022 (PID Note: Narrative Identity656) (WebRef=11989, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Why a journeyman boxer finds contentment in the art of losing
- Aeon: Video - Perfecting the art of longing: 15/08/2022 (PID Note: Psychopathology657) (WebRef=11965, Unread, Priority=2)
→ ‘Let me dream you into my reality’: memories illuminate an unthinkable isolation
- Aeon: Video - Bird of prey: 11/08/2022 (PID Note: Animals658) (WebRef=11931, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Journey deep into the Philippine forest in search of the world’s largest, rarest eagle
- Aeon: Video - Recoding art: 09/08/2022 (PID Note: Computers659) (WebRef=11924, Unread, Priority=2)
→ What does an AI make of what it sees in a contemporary art museum?
- Aeon: Video - Mink!: 08/08/2022660
- Aeon: Video - 5,000 exoplanets: 25/07/2022 (WebRef=11869, Unread, Priority=2)
→ From zero to 5,000 – music and visuals express 30 years of exoplanet discoveries
- Aeon: Video - Marilyn Waring on women and economics: 21/07/2022 (WebRef=11829, Unread, Priority=2)
→ We all play by economic rules set by men. What could a feminist economics look like?
- Aeon: Video - Naom Chomsky: the five filters of the mass media machine: 05/07/2022661
- Aeon: Video - Technology for talking: 20/06/2022 (PID Note: Language of Thought662) (WebRef=11760, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Adaptive technologies have helped Stephen Hawking, and many more, find their voice
- Aeon: Video - Nauka (Education): 15/06/2022 (WebRef=11762, Unread, Priority=2)
→ A homework task prompts kids to reflect deeply on learning, and its limits
- Aeon: Video - Eadem cutis - the same skin: 14/06/2022 (PID Note: Narrative Identity663) (WebRef=11749, Unread, Priority=2)
→ ‘When you’re done, you stay human!’ What gender transition means to John
- Aeon: Video - Five Lems: 13/06/2022 (WebRef=11752, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Solaris and beyond – Stanisław Lem’s antidotes to the bores of American sci-fi
- Aeon: Video - On Wittgenstein: 06/06/2022 (Bryan Magee & John Searle) (PID Note: Wittgenstein664) (WebRef=11736, Unread, Priority=2)
→ For Ludwig Wittgenstein, language is a game, but not a frivolous one
- Aeon: Video - The Loving generation: checking boxes: 01/03/2018 (PID Note: Race665) (WebRef=9049, Unread, Priority=2)
→ On growing up biracial in the US in the wake of the interracial marriage bans’ end
- Aeon: Video - Human population through time: 02/12/2016 (WebRef=11801, Unread, Priority=2)
→ How we became more than 7 billion – humanity’s population explosion, visualised
- Aeon: Video - Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard: 10/06/2016 (PID Note: Animals666) (WebRef=12003, Unread, Priority=2)
→ How multicoloured side-blotched lizards put game theory into evolutionary action
- Aeon: Video - Born to be mild: 12/05/2016 (WebRef=12332, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The Dull Men’s Club: where being extraordinarily ordinary is celebrated
- Aeon: Video - The last two: 20/10/2015 (WebRef=12160, Unread, Priority=2)
→ La Estrella, Spain – population: two. Will the last couple in the village leave?
- Aeon: Video - Winter: 21/04/2015 (PID Note: Animals667) (WebRef=11782, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Is rewilding the future of nature?
- Aeon: Video - Five: 14/04/2015 (WebRef=12365, Unread, Priority=2)
→ A reflection on the spiritual rituals of five five-year-olds from five religions
- Aeon: Video - Tobacco girl: 25/06/2014 (WebRef=12230, Unread, Priority=2)
→ While Mümine thinks about boys and school, her parents want an arranged marriage
- Aeon: Orford - Milk, pity and power: 17/03/2023 (Margie Orford) (WebRef=12523, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Since antiquity, artists have depicted a perverse scene of a daughter breastfeeding her aged father. What does it mean?
- Aeon: Lapka & Kung - Wish you had more self-control? You should hear the downsides: 14/03/2023 (Samantha Lapka & Franki Kung) (WebRef=12528, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Nicolini - Should assisted death be available for intractable mental illness?: 13/03/2023 (Marie Nicolini) (WebRef=12530, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Stilgoe - Give the drummer some: 28/02/2023 (Jack Stilgoe) (PID Note: Intelligence668) (WebRef=12504, Unread, Priority=2)
→ As AI drum machines embrace humanising imperfections, what does this mean for ‘real’ drummers and the soul of music?
- Aeon: Markey - Practise ‘intuitive eating’ and feel a lot happier about food: 28/02/2023 (Charlotte H. Markey) (WebRef=12503, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Berryman - Your consciousness has been completely transformed. Now what?: 27/02/2023 (Kevin Berryman) (PID Note: Consciousness669) (WebRef=12506, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Barnes - The space between us: 21/02/2023 (James Barnes) (PID Note: Psychopathology670) (WebRef=12487, Unread, Priority=2)
→ In order to understand and heal mental distress, we must see our minds as existing in relationships, not inside our heads
- Aeon: Rogers - Stuck in a loop of worrying thoughts? Here’s how to stop it: 20/02/2023 (Megan L. Rogers) (PID Note: Psychopathology671) (WebRef=12489, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Slepian - Secrets hurt their holders: 16/02/2023 (Michael Slepian) (WebRef=12475, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Holding back the truth can take a huge toll on your relationships and your mental health. Why? And is there a better way?
- Aeon: de Bloom & Kosenkranius - How to craft a harmonious life: 15/02/2023 (Jessica de Bloom & Merly Kosenkranius) (WebRef=12476, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Forget the ideal of work/life balance – your needs and interests are much richer than that, and your life can be too
- Aeon: Bretl - Adolescence is a ‘use it or lose it’ time for moral development: 13/02/2023 (Brandon Bretl) (WebRef=12474, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Vallier - Defining social trust is a first step toward nurturing it: 08/02/2023 (Kevin Vallier) (WebRef=12468, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Ellard - How to appreciate buildings: 08/02/2023 (Colin Ellard) (WebRef=12458, Unread, Priority=2)
→ It’s easy to become blasé about the built world. Tune in more deeply and architectural adventures await around each corner
- Aeon: Zaretsky - What if my lessons in existentialism were in bad faith?: 07/02/2023 (Robert D. Zaretsky) (WebRef=12460, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Zimmerman - A game is not a game without a special kind of conflict: 06/02/2023 (Eric Zimmerman) (WebRef=12463, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Thomas - Hitozukuri: 03/02/2023 (Jolyon Baraka Thomas) (PID Note: Religion672) (WebRef=12447, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Japan’s Cold War education policy used religion to ‘make’ the ideal humans needed by its nascent economy. Did it work?
- Aeon: Stadolnik - We’ve always been distracted: 02/02/2023 (Joe Stadolnik) (WebRef=12450, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself
- Aeon: Davidman - How to know if you want to be a parent: 01/02/2023 (Ann Davidman) (WebRef=12451, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Set aside everyone else’s preconceptions. Then try doing these counterintuitive exercises to understand your own desires
- Aeon: Perkins-McVey - What can Kant tell us about the perils and promise of booze?: 01/02/2023 (Matthew Perkins-McVey) (PID Note: Kant673) (WebRef=12449, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Paluck & Gantman - The details of the situation shape whether a sexual assault occurs: 31/01/2023 (Betsy Levy Paluck & Ana Gantman) (WebRef=12453, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Chaney - Worried you’re not normal? Don’t be – there’s no such thing: 30/01/2023 (Sarah Chaney) (WebRef=12455, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Hendrick - Learning styles don’t exist: 26/01/2023 (Carl Hendrick) (WebRef=12437, Unread, Priority=2)
→ A teaching approach that is based on students’ preferences sounds laudable. But this misunderstands how learning happens
- Aeon: Christensen - How war destroys the childhood sense-scape we call ‘home’: 24/01/2023 (Julia F. Christensen) (PID Note: Narrative Identity674) (WebRef=12428, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Buckareff - The brewer, the yeast, and the boundaries of human agency: 23/01/2023 (Andrei A. Buckareff) (PID Note: Causality675) (WebRef=12431, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Casewell - Forgotten existentialist: 19/01/2023 (Deborah Casewell) (WebRef=12407, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Sartre gets much of the credit for existentialism. Karl Jaspers not only preceded him, but offered a way out of despair
- Aeon: Hooper - How to make the most of university: 18/01/2023 (Nic Hooper) (WebRef=12396, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Learning psychological flexibility is the key to coping with difficult times and to pursuing what really matters to you
- Aeon: Brennen & Magnussen - Here’s the truth about how to spot when someone is lying: 16/01/2023 (Tim Brennen & Svein Magnussen) (WebRef=12401, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Hanusiak - Enter the conductrice: 12/01/2023 (Xenia Hanusiak) (WebRef=12388, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Le Forestier - It’s a fraught choice: come out, or conceal yourself?: 11/01/2023 (Joel Le Forestier) (PID Note: Narrative Identity676) (WebRef=12387, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Mason, Demertzi & Ramaekers - If you want psychedelic healing, your ego may need to die: 10/01/2023 (Natasha Mason , Athena Demertzi & Johannes G. Ramaekers) (PID Note: Cartesian Ego677) (WebRef=12380, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Svoboda - Family passages: 09/01/2023 (Elizabeth Svoboda) (WebRef=12384, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Each new generation learns from its elders. But familial voices now compete for influence with a chorus of urgent others
- Aeon: Boon - Learn the art of journaling and archive your life: 09/01/2023 (Sarah Boon) (WebRef=12383, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Backhurst - Philosophy’s blindspot: 06/01/2023 (David Backhurst) (WebRef=12361, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Education has long been ignored by contemporary philosophers. That is a myopic view that must change
- Aeon: Eichner - Women at the barricades: 05/01/2023 (Carolyn Eichner) (WebRef=12364, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The transgressions of working-class women formed the revolutionary heart of the 1871 Paris Commune
- Aeon: Shine - To grasp how serotonin works on the brain, look to the gut: 03/01/2023 (James M. Shine) (WebRef=12363, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Alliger - Kafka warned us: surveillance turns the watched into watchers: 20/12/2022 (George Alliger) (WebRef=12348, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Wulf - The first Romantics: 20/12/2022 (Andrea Wulf) (WebRef=12349, Unread, Priority=2)
→ How a close group of brilliant friends, in a tiny German university town, laid the foundations of modern consciousness
- Aeon: Riggle - Beauty is not an ornament to the good life, it is at its heart: 19/12/2022 (Nick Riggle) (WebRef=12351, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Alpert - Many wisdoms: 16/12/2022 (Avram Alpert) (WebRef=12328, Unread, Priority=2)
→ There are no transcendent insights that rise above human difference. Yet wisdom exists if we look in the right places
- Aeon: Bradatan - The herd in the head: 13/12/2022 (Costica Bradatan) (WebRef=12336, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Warren - Home and the birdsong: 12/12/2022 (Michael J. Warren) (WebRef=12338, Unread, Priority=2)
→ In the dark, sylvan villages of medieval England, people named places after the birds that filled the night with music
- Aeon: Cawley - How to become wise: 09/12/2022 (Kevin Cawley) (WebRef=12319, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Practice is at the heart of Korean philosophy. In order to lead a good life, hone your daily rituals of self-cultivation
- Aeon: Syfret - How to be a happy nihilist: 07/12/2022 (Wendy Syfret) (WebRef=12311, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Exhausted by the modern pressure to squeeze meaning out of every moment? Here’s a radical way to reset your priorities
- Aeon: Liberman - In Viking sagas, the ‘truth’ is a tangle of history and fiction: 07/12/2022 (Anatoly Liberman) (WebRef=12310, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Cook & Over - Why do we make snap judgments based on facial appearance?: 07/12/2022 (Richard Cook & Harriet Over) (WebRef=12321, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Morden - Thriving on Mars: 06/12/2022 (Simon Morden) (PID Note: Transhumanism678) (WebRef=12314, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Dust storms, long distances and freezing temperatures make living on Mars magnificently challenging. How will we do it?
- Aeon: Gadsby & Nanay - Is ‘feeling fat’ really a manifestation of underlying sadness?: 05/12/2022 (Stephen Gadsby & Bence Nanay) (PID Note: Psychopathology679) (WebRef=12316, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: James - Geopolitics is for losers: 01/12/2022 (Harold James) (WebRef=12305, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The concept of geopolitics comes from German and Russian attempts to explain defeat and reverse loss of influence
- Aeon: Magnus - They’re playing our song! The philosophical puzzle of cover songs: 30/11/2022 (P.D. Magnus) (WebRef=12309, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Alfano & Astola - A sense of humour – even a dark one – is a moral virtue: 29/11/2022 (Mark Alfano & Mandi Astola) (WebRef=12301, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Valmisa - We are interwoven beings: 25/11/2022 (Mercedes Valmisa) (PID Note: Society680) (WebRef=12286, Unread, Priority=2)
→ A dragon needs the clouds and the wind in order to fly. What happens when we too relinquish individualistic reasoning?
- Aeon: Evans - Was Colin Wilson a fascist?: 22/11/2022 (Jules Evans) (WebRef=12281, Unread, Priority=2)
→ For thousands of fans, he made philosophy thrillingly relevant. Yet there is a deep unsavoury undercurrent to his worldview
- Aeon: Suri - What happens if we make the Mona Lisa more symmetrical?: 22/11/2022 (Manil Suri) (WebRef=12280, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Fabiani - La cucina povera delivers the fare we need to sustain us now: 21/11/2022 (Louise Fabiani) (WebRef=12283, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Judson - Our Earth, shaped by life: 18/11/2022 (Olivia Judson) (PID Note: Evolution681) (WebRef=12272, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Darwin was the first to see that all lifeforms, from worms to corals, transform the planet. What does that mean for us?
- Aeon: Marino - I made professor before Ritalin. Now I can’t work without it: 16/11/2022 (Gordon Marino) (PID Note: Psychopathology682) (WebRef=12274, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Mangels - Quitting animal foods needn’t be a hardship. Relish your new diet and make it stick with this nutritionist’s approach: 16/11/2022 (Reed Mangels) (PID Note: Animal Rights683) (WebRef=12265, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Quitting animal foods needn’t be a hardship. Relish your new diet and make it stick with this nutritionist’s approach
- Aeon: Garson - The helpful delusion: 14/11/2022 (Justin Garson) (PID Note: Psychopathology684) (WebRef=12271, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Dine - Cogitating black holes: 13/11/2022 (Michael Dine) (WebRef=12268, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The Universe cannot always be understood through observation. Instead, physicists explore by devising thought experiments
- Aeon: Marder - Trenches in Chernobyl: 11/11/2022 (Michael Marder) (WebRef=12260, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Disturbing and inhaling radioactive dust, in their haste Russian soldiers unburied the wrecked, undead Earth itself
- Aeon: Gjesdal - Why did Ibsen put ‘philosophers in skirts’ up on the stage?: 09/11/2022 (Kristin Gjesdal) (WebRef=12252, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Quattrone - Jesuits in the boardroom: 04/11/2022 (Paolo Quattrone) (WebRef=12239, Unread, Priority=2)
→ As corporations struggle to survive in a more uncertain world, they should look to the success of the Society of Jesus
- Aeon: Kecmanovic - How to deal with regret: 02/11/2022 (Jelena Kecmanovic) (WebRef=12232, Unread, Priority=2)
→ In a world of choices, it’s impossible to avoid regret. Unpleasant as it is, you can make it bearable, even inspirational
- Aeon: Pyne - Our children will need to find the beauty in our burnt planet: 02/11/2022 (Stephen J. Pyne) (WebRef=12241, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Molinari, Petrolini & Huemer - There is an unseen smuggling operation between fiction and reality: 02/11/2022 (Daniele Molinari, Valentina Petrolini & Wolfgang Huemer) (PID Note: Fiction685) (WebRef=12231, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Cochrane - Attuned to the aesthetic: 01/11/2022 (Tom Cochrane) (WebRef=12235, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The ultimate value of the world can be discovered if you are sensitive to what is beautiful
- Aeon: Kovan - The lethal act: 31/10/2022 (Martin Kovan) (PID Note: Buddhism686) (WebRef=12237, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The Buddha taught not to kill, yet his followers have at times disobeyed him. Can murderers still be Buddhists?
- Aeon: Muecke - The generous philosopher: 28/10/2022687
- Aeon: Simoniti - What does art do?: 27/10/2022 (Vid Simoniti) (WebRef=12226, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Good art, laced with irony, ambiguity and suspense, is not obviously political. That’s what makes it politically interesting
- Aeon: Kastely - Can political persuasion be something more than manipulation?: 26/10/2022 (James Kastely) (WebRef=12216, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Butler - The Devil you don’t know: the Satan of the 19th century: 26/10/2022 (Erik Butler) (WebRef=12225, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Melamed - Medieval but not Christian: 25/10/2022 (Yitzhak Y. Melamed) (WebRef=12220, Unread, Priority=2)
→ It’s shocking that histories of medieval philosophy celebrate only Christian thinkers, ignoring Islamic and Jewish thought
- Aeon: Highfield - A singular scientist: 20/10/2022 (Roger Highfield) (WebRef=12180, Unread, Priority=2)
→ James Lovelock was a visionary whose greatest ideas were made possible by his unshakeable independence
- Aeon: Shah - A few simple steps could empower the world’s largest minority: 19/10/2022 (Paras Shah) (PID Note: Narrative Identity688) (WebRef=12170, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Sobchuk - Are successful authors creative geniuses or literary labourers?: 19/10/2022 (Oleg Sobchuk) (WebRef=12179, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Roache - How to change your self-limiting beliefs: 19/10/2022 (Rebecca Roache) (WebRef=12171, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Let Descartes, Kant and other philosophers help you view the world through a more positive filter and you’ll bloom
- Aeon: Stiefel & Reimer - Tomorrow’s corals: 17/10/2022 (Klaus M. Stiefel & James D. Reimer) (WebRef=12176, Unread, Priority=2)
→ A warming planet and acid oceans will radically transform marine ecosystems. How will our beloved reefs survive?
- Aeon: Silk - Telescopes on the Moon: 14/10/2022 (Joseph Silk) (WebRef=12163, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Our future in space relies on settling the Moon and using it as a base to probe the deepest questions in the cosmos
- Aeon: Vaswani-Bye - How to support a loved one through psychosis: 12/10/2022 (Akansha Vaswani-Bye) (PID Note: Psychopathology689) (WebRef=12162, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Navigating disruptions in shared reality can be distressing. The way forward isn’t intuitive but is powerfully effective
- Aeon: Løvschal - Mutual entrapment: 11/10/2022 (Mette Lovschal) (WebRef=12154, Unread, Priority=2)
→ As Neolithic people transformed prehistoric forests, they stumbled into an ecological trap. Domestication goes both ways
- Aeon: Feigel - Leave them alone: 07/10/2022 (Lara Feigel) (WebRef=12148, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Parenting advice from D H Lawrence: don’t smother your children with love. They are more sagacious than you think
- Aeon: Beckert & Bosma - Ever more land and labour: 06/10/2022 (Sven Beckert & Ulbe Bosma) (PID Note: Race690) (WebRef=12151, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Centuries of capitalism saw the global countryside ruthlessly converted into cheap commodities. But at what cost?
- Aeon: Jarrett - How to enjoy running: 05/10/2022 (Christian Jarrett) (WebRef=12118, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Going for a jog doesn’t have to be a chore – these mental techniques will make it something you actually look forward to
- Aeon: Cox - Blue-eyed Buddhist: 04/10/2022 (Laurence Cox) (PID Note: Race691) (WebRef=12120, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The story of a working-class radical from Ireland who became a celebrated monk and challenged the British Empire in Asia
- Aeon: Sideris - To benefit from wonder, make sure you’ve got the genuine kind: 04/10/2022 (Lisa Sideris) (WebRef=12119, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Crossman - The utopian machine: 29/09/2022 (Susanna Crossman) (WebRef=12126, Unread, Priority=2)
→ For children like me, growing up in an utopian community, life was a bewildering chaos of freedom and indoctrination
- Aeon: Waugh - Asking one simple question can entirely change how you feel: 28/09/2022 (Christian Waugh) (WebRef=12125, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Robers - A radical approach can change behaviour in and out of the classroom: 28/09/2022 (Alexandria C. Robers) (PID Note: Psychopathology692) (WebRef=12109, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Kneebone - How to become an expert: 28/09/2022 (Roger L. Kneebone) (WebRef=12110, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The path to mastery is long, winding and hugely fulfilling. Use this map to navigate and overcome any bumps along the way
- Aeon: Iturriaga - Exhuming the truth: 27/09/2022 (Nicole Iturriaga) (WebRef=12113, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Thousands of victims of political executions lie in anonymous graves. Forensics offers hope for the ‘forgotten’ ones
- Aeon: Jordan, Thomas & Gupta - Psychosis can be a personal hell. It can also inspire growth: 26/09/2022 (Gerald Jordan, Robyn Thomas & Veenu Gupta) (WebRef=12115, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Pollen - Life in the buff: 23/09/2022 (Annebella Pollen) (WebRef=12093, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Naturists believed nudity was profoundly beneficial to society. In order to spread the message, they took to photography
- Aeon: Lavallee - Why we crave: 22/09/2022 (Zoey Lavallee) (WebRef=12096, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The neuroscientific picture of addiction overlooks the psychological and social factors that make cravings so hard to resist
- Aeon: Mills - Dietrich showed how adopting a persona can reveal one’s true self: 21/09/2022 (Sam Mills) (WebRef=12095, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Aikin & Casey - How to have better arguments: 21/09/2022 (Scott Aikin & John Casey) (WebRef=12086, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Arguing well isn’t just about winning. A philosophical approach will help you and the other person get much more out of it
- Aeon: Dyzenhaus - Democracy or apocalypse: 20/09/2022 (David Dyzenhaus) (WebRef=12089, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Eric Voegelin and Hans Kelsen fled the Nazis. In the US, they clashed over the nature of modernity and government
- Aeon: Faber - What the journey from Star Trek to Siri says about our culture: 20/09/2022 (Liz W. Faber) (WebRef=12088, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Greene - Care from afar: 19/09/2022 (Jeremy A. Greene) (WebRef=12091, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The joys and complications of raising a baby without gender in a binary world
- Aeon: Martinez & Cami - For neuroscience, magic opens a doorway to multiple realities: 14/09/2022 (Luis M. Martinez & Jordi Cami) (WebRef=12026, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Howarth - How to nurture a personal library: 14/09/2022 (Freya Howarth) (WebRef=12027, Unread, Priority=2)
→ An escape, a sanctuary, a place of pleasure, a memoir. Take these steps to ensure your library is just what you want it to be
- Aeon: Rottenberg & Davendorf - Many people not only survive mental illness – they thrive: 14/09/2022 (Jonathan Rottenberg & Andrew Davendorf) (WebRef=12033, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Stein - Collective wrongs: 13/09/2022 (Joshua Stein) (WebRef=12029, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Even when individual perpetrators and victims are dead, states and institutions have a responsibility to make restitutions
- Aeon: Ross - How do good conversations work? Philosophy has something to say: 13/09/2022 (Stephanie Ross) (WebRef=12028, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Clinton-Lisell - Go on, admit it. You’re multitasking. Here’s how to do it better: 12/09/2022 (Virginia Clinton-Lisell) (WebRef=12031, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Parker - The Calvinist conquest: 09/09/2022 (Charles H. Parker) (WebRef=12012, Unread, Priority=2)
→ In the 17th century, Dutch proselytisers set out for Asia, Africa and the Americas. The legacy of their travels endures
- Aeon: Trott - As language evolves, who wins out: speakers or listeners?: 07/09/2022 (Sean Trott) (PID Note: Language of Thought693) (WebRef=12014, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Schrad - Freedom from liquor: 06/09/2022 (Mark Lawrence Schrad) (WebRef=12008, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Ken Burns’s account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering
- Aeon: Wolpert - A sliver of reality: 05/09/2022 (David H. Wolpert) (PID Note: Metaphysics694) (WebRef=12010, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Science and mathematics may never fully capture the physical universe. Are there hard limits to human intelligence?
- Aeon: Lemercier & Zalc - History by numbers: 02/09/2022 (Claire Lemercier & Claire Zalc) (WebRef=11994, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Is history a matter of individual agency and action, or of finding and quantifying underpinning structures and patterns?
- Aeon: Miklikowska & Tilton-Weaver - Empathic friends can provide the right kind of peer pressure: 31/08/2022 (Marta Miklikowska & Lauree Tilton-Weaver) (WebRef=11984, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Huenemann - How to read philosophy: 31/08/2022 (Charles Huenemann) (WebRef=11985, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The first thing to remember is that the great philosophers were only human. Then you can start disagreeing with them
- Aeon: Hanley - Leibniz had rules for standing out for all the right reasons: 31/08/2022695
- Aeon: Tombras - Can we diagnose suffering without knowing a person’s history?: 30/08/2022 (Christos Tombras) (WebRef=11987, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Ahola, Holmqvist & Pesonen - Far-flung ancient communities forged bonds through broken rings: 29/08/2022 (Marja Ahola, Elisabeth Holmqvist & Petro Pesonen) (WebRef=11990, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Chen - Are they the canaries?: 19/08/2022 (Xi Chen) (WebRef=11975, Unread, Priority=2)
→ People with multiple chemical sensitivity seem to be allergic to the world. What, if anything, can medicine do for them?
- Aeon: Yunxiang - Black King of Songs: 18/08/2022 (Gao Yunxiang) (PID Note: Race696) (WebRef=11969, Unread, Priority=2)
→ His communism brought the great American singer Paul Robeson trouble in the US, but helped make him a hero in China
- Aeon: Lewis - Dark horses in the cosmos: 16/08/2022 (Briley Lewis) (WebRef=11973, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Could primordial black holes from the beginning of time explain ‘dark matter’, the mysterious missing mass in the Universe?
- Aeon: Steckler - Homeless, delusional, and brave, Mrs A taught me a powerful lesson: 16/08/2022 (Patricia Steckler) (PID Note: Psychopathology697) (WebRef=11972, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Blankholm - One good way to understand religion is to break it apart: 15/08/2022 (Joseph Blankholm) (WebRef=11966, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Schedneck - Buddhist missionaries: 11/08/2022 (Brooke Schedneck) (PID Note: Buddhism698) (WebRef=11933, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Buddhist monks have mostly escaped the label of proselytisers, but they’ll still spread the word to those who seek them out
- Aeon: Costello & Bowes - Popper was right about the link between certainty and extremism: 10/08/2022 (Thomas Costello & Shauna Bowes) (WebRef=11922, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Biss - Why doing your best is sometimes the worst thing you can do: 10/08/2022 (Mavis Biss) (WebRef=11932, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Holleran - Living closer together: 09/08/2022 (Max Holleran) (WebRef=11926, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Urban density was once seen as a sign of unhealthiness and poverty. But today it is necessary to make cities sustainable
- Aeon: Dimolareva - Time to move beyond the anecdotes around animal-assisted therapies: 09/08/2022 (Mirena Dimolareva) (PID Note: Animals699) (WebRef=11925, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Moran - The delights of mischief: 08/08/2022 (Alexander Paul Moran) (WebRef=11928, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Mischievousness requires humour, wit and a playful humaneness: qualities that make for a particular kind of virtue
- Aeon: Gergel - Advance directives for mental illness raise deep ethical questions: 03/08/2022 (Tania Louise Gergel) (PID Note: Forensic Property700) (WebRef=11888, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Byerly - Helping others might feel good, but is it really good for you?: 03/08/2022 (T. Ryan Byerly) (WebRef=11878, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Silva - Sometimes it’s a good idea to be angry with yourself. But when?: 02/08/2022 (Laura Silva) (WebRef=11881, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Peake & Forsyth - What lies beneath government: 02/08/2022 (Gordon Peake & Miranda Forsyth) (WebRef=11882, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Buka Town in Bougainville shows how bureaucratic states could be reimagined, not as concrete buildings but as living gardens
- Aeon: Goff - Why religion without belief can still make perfect sense: 01/08/2022 (Philip Goff) (WebRef=11884, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Course - The meaning of Purgatory: 29/07/2022 (Magnus Course) (PID Note: Religion701) (WebRef=11860, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Think less of a holding pen for Heaven and more as a flow of love from the living, and the weirdness starts making sense
- Aeon: Monserrate - The people of the cloud: 28/07/2022 (Steven Gonzalez Monserrate) (PID Note: Computers702) (WebRef=11863, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Hot, strenuous and unsung. There is nothing soft and fluffy about the caretaking work that enables our digital lives
- Aeon: Arnold-Forster - The idea of a ‘surgeon’s personality’ won’t fix the profession: 26/07/2022 (Agnes Arnold-Forster) (WebRef=11867, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Triplett - You’re astonishing!: 22/07/2022 (Timm Triplett) (PID Note: Life703) (WebRef=11828, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Life can be better appreciated when you remember how wonderfully and frighteningly unlikely it is that you exist at al
- Aeon: Coleman - The right person: 21/07/2022 (Joshua Coleman) (WebRef=11826, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Contemporary wisdom says that happiness is the measure of a marriage. But is that a harmful way of judging relationships?
- Aeon: Tsai - The power of Langston Hughes’s ‘melancholy citizenship’: 20/07/2022 (Robert L. Tsai) (WebRef=11819, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Rapley - The ungreat replacement: 19/07/2022 (John Rapley) (WebRef=11823, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Workers in the West have indeed been repressed – but not by immigrants. The policies of their own governments are to blame
- Aeon: Cunningham - Grey whales taught me how to mother, how to endure, how to live: 13/07/2022 (Doreen Cunningham) (PID Note: Animals704) (WebRef=11799, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Rees - How to thrive after leaving your religion: 13/07/2022 (Micah Rees) (PID Note: Religion705) (WebRef=11803, Unread, Priority=2)
→ It can be distressing, but liberating too. Use these tips from clinical practice and personal experience to emerge stronger
- Aeon: Venkat - Studying tuberculosis in India, I saw the problem with cures: 13/07/2022 (Bharat Jayram Venkat) (WebRef=11802, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Maibom - Through the eyes of another: 12/07/2022 (Heidi L. Maibom) (WebRef=11805, Unread, Priority=2)
→ It’s impossible to shed our individual biases. So the best way to establish objectivity is by taking on new perspectives
- Aeon: Sampson - Sleepwalk to the gift shop: 08/07/2022 (Fiona Sampson) (WebRef=11790, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Romanticism once radically challenged conventional pieties. Now it’s little more than marketable schlock. What happened?
- Aeon: Eriksen - Keeping our options open: 07/07/2022 (Thomas Hylland Eriksen) (WebRef=11793, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Frantic human activity has reduced both cultural and biological diversity. Now we must protect the dwindling alternatives
- Aeon: Milyavskaya - To meet your goals, forget willpower and fill your toolbox: 06/07/2022 (Marina Milyavskaya) (WebRef=11792, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Callcut - Toleration is an impressive virtue that’s worth reviving: 06/07/2022706
- Aeon: Moghaddam - Why the ketamine revolution is stalling – and how to save it: 04/07/2022 (Bita Moghaddam) (PID Note: Psychopathology707) (WebRef=11788, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Roberts - Out of the forest: 30/06/2022 (Patrick Roberts) (PID Note: Evolution708) (WebRef=11781, Unread, Priority=2)
→ We have thought of humans for a century or more as creatures of the savannah, shaped in every way by grassland life. Not so
- Aeon: Alexander - What our fantasies about futuristic food say about us: 28/06/2022 (Kelly Alexander) (PID Note: Transhumanism709) (WebRef=11773, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Longo - Body image distortions are a normal feature of mental life: 22/06/2022 (Matthew R. Longo) (PID Note: Body710) (WebRef=11766, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Ferkany - Why you shouldn’t shrink from challenging your loved ones’ views: 22/06/2022 (Max Ferkany) (WebRef=11768, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Shapiro - A God beyond logic: 21/06/2022 (Adam R. Shapiro) (PID Note: Religion711) (WebRef=11759, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The history of natural theology shows that Intelligent Design and New Atheism both got it wrong, in strangely similar ways
- Aeon: Arikha - The philosophy of selfhood became real when my mother got dementia: 21/06/2022 (Noga Arikha) (PID Note: Self712) (WebRef=11758, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Jannazzo - The question therapy doesn’t answer: who are we really, really?: 15/06/2022 (Eric Jannazzo) (PID Note: What are We?713) (WebRef=11747, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Kirkpatrick & Kruks - Old not Other: 14/06/2022 (Kate Kirkpatrick& Sonia Kruks) (PID Note: Narrative Identity714) (WebRef=11751, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Here’s a puzzle: why do we neglect and disdain the one vulnerable group we all eventually will join? Beauvoir had an answer
- Aeon: Anttila - On the moral responsibility to be an informed citizen: 14/06/2022 (Solmu Anttila) (WebRef=11750, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: DuFord - Democracy entails conflict: 13/06/2022 (Rochelle DuFord) (WebRef=11753, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Democracy is a system of politics that has disagreement at its heart. But how do we stop conflicts becoming destructive?
- Aeon: Lahvis - Freefall into darkness: 02/06/2022 (Garet Lahvis) (PID Note: Animal Rights715) (WebRef=11721, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Scientists study animals to illuminate human psychology. So why are we blind to the mental lives of our caged subjects?
- Aeon: Stoica - Slow down, it’s what your brain has been begging for: 01/06/2022 (Teodora Stoica) (WebRef=11713, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Cutter - With respect and friendship: 31/05/2022 (Nat Cutter) (PID Note: Race716) (WebRef=11716, Unread, Priority=2)
→ For a century before the rise of European empires, Britons and North Africans lived together in amicable peace
- Aeon: Mancilla & Roberts - The Antarctic paradox: 27/05/2022 (Alejandra Mancilla & Peder Roberts) (WebRef=11699, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The most protected place on Earth has become one of the most threatened – and threatening. Can its problems be solved?
- Aeon: Flaherty - Prison life puts the ‘time work’ we all do into sharp relief: 24/05/2022 (Michael G. Flaherty) (PID Note: Time717) (WebRef=11694, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Borowski - Philosopher of the apocalypse: 17/05/2022 (Audrey Borowski) (PID Note: Computers718) (WebRef=11682, Unread, Priority=2)
→ From the ashes of the Second World War, Günther Anders forecast a new catastrophe: technology would overwhelm its creators
- Aeon: Andersen - Quantum Wittgenstein: 12/05/2022719
- Aeon: Babcock - The split-body problem: 28/04/2022 (Gunnar O. Babcock) (PID Note: Fission720) (WebRef=11621, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Why we need to stop thinking about parents, offspring and sex when we try to understand how life reproduces itself
- Aeon: Veale - When will humorous AIs press our buttons with their jokes?: 25/04/2022 (Tont Veale) (PID Note: Computers721) (WebRef=11616, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Greve - AI’s first philosopher: 21/04/2022722
- Aeon: Kraus - Over-optimism about racial justice is widespread and harmful: 20/04/2022 (Michael Kraus) (PID Note: Race723) (WebRef=11593, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Sartwell - Truth is real: 14/04/2022 (Crispin Sartwell) (WebRef=11591, Unread, Priority=2)
→ For a century, the idea of truth has been deflated, becoming terrain from which philosophers fled. They must return – urgently
- Aeon: Schwitzgebel - Let everyone sparkle: psychotechnology in the year 2067: 12/04/2022 (Eric Schwitzgebel) (PID Note: Transhumanism724) (WebRef=11583, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Robson - Physical fatigue is in the brain as much as in the body: 06/04/2022 (David Robson) (WebRef=11578, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Berwald - The web of life: 05/04/2022 (Juli Berwald) (PID Note: Evolution725) (WebRef=11572, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Classic evolutionary theory holds that species separate over time. But it’s fuzzier than that – now we know they also merge
- Aeon: Willingham - Help! Brain overload: 01/04/2022 (Emily Willingham) (WebRef=11557, Unread, Priority=2)
→ As tasks mount up, our brain’s ability to juggle goes down. Neuroergonomic tactics can relieve the cognitive burden
- Aeon: Tampio - Scepticism as a way of life: 25/03/2022 (Nicholas Tampio) (WebRef=11538, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The desire for certainty is often foolish and sometimes dangerous. Scepticism undermines it, both in oneself and in others
- Aeon: White - Poor sleep: 22/03/2022 (Jonathan White) (PID Note: Psychopathology726) (WebRef=11533, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Being on-call, out-of-sync and underslept is not just personal but a pervasive political injustice. Bold change is needed
- Aeon: Sasidharan - The way of dharma: 21/03/2022 (Keerthik Sasidharan) (PID Note: Religion727) (WebRef=11534, Unread, Priority=2)
→ How do ancient stories of talking elephants and singing birds encourage a life of truth, nonviolence and compassion?
- Aeon: Mallette - The allure of cosmopolitan languages to courtiers and pop fans: 15/03/2022 (Karla Mallette) (WebRef=11513, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Matthes - Love the art, disgusted by the artist? Maybe philosophy can help: 14/03/2022 (Erich Hatala Matthes) (WebRef=11516, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Lange - What is a law of nature?: 10/03/2022 (Marc Lange) (WebRef=11492, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Laws of nature are impossible to break, and nearly as difficult to define. Just what kind of necessity do they possess?
- Aeon: Funkhouser - Déjà vu is just one of many uncanny kinds of déjà experiences: 09/03/2022 (Art Funkhouser) (WebRef=11491, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Levin & Yuste - Modular cognition: 08/03/2022 (Michael Levin & Rafael Yuste) (WebRef=11487, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Powerful tricks from computer science and cybernetics show how evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up
- Aeon: Kirloskar-Steinbach & Kalmanson - Views from everywhere: 07/03/2022 (Mokica Kirloskar-Steinbach & Leah Kalmanson) (WebRef=11489, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Academic philosophy can indeed make sense of our interdependent world. But only if it transforms by becoming truly diverse
- Townsend - ‘Better a meal of vegetables’: Should we eat meat?: 01/03/2022 (Christopher Townsend) (PID Note: Animal Rights728) (WebRef=11710, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Kringelbach & Deco - The turbulent brain: 25/02/2022 (Morten L. Kringelbach & Gustavo Deco) (PID Note: Brain729) (WebRef=11463, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Energy flow between brain and environment drives the non-equilibrium that sustains life. Could turbulence help us thrive?
- Aeon: Hennessey - I saw my baby as a river flowing through me, and gave birth: 23/02/2022 (Anna Hennessey) (PID Note: Pregnancy730) (WebRef=11455, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Yonkaporta, Etc - Blackfella boxes: 17/02/2022 (Tyson Yonkaporta, Etc) (PID Note: Intelligence731) (WebRef=11449, Unread, Priority=2)
→ From kinship systems to environmental lore, Indigenous philosophy could help reprogram the cultural code of AI
- Aeon: Nord - The brain’s reading of the body’s state is key to mental health: 16/02/2022 (Camilla Nord) (PID Note: Psychopathology732) (WebRef=11448, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Yamashiro & Roediger - The collective memory bias that flatters our homelands: 14/02/2022 (Jeremy K. Yamashiro & Henry L. Roediger) (WebRef=11445, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Clarke - For the Stoic Musonius Rufus, manual work is philosophy too: 09/02/2022 (Lee Clarke) (WebRef=11421, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Vallortigara - Babies and chicks help solve one of psychology’s oldest puzzles: 02/02/2022 (Giorgio Vallortigara) (PID Note: Psychology733) (WebRef=11409, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Ramm - To experience Zen-like awakening, try going the headless way: 02/02/2022 (Brentyn J. Ramm) (PID Note: Buddhism734) (WebRef=11399, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Brouwer - Pivotal mental states: 28/01/2022 (Ari Brouwer) (PID Note: Religion735) (WebRef=11380, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Spiritual highs and mental breakdowns are both products of the same evolved brain system granting us the power to transform
- Aeon: Anderson - Why it feels right to feel guilty about accidental mishaps: 26/01/2022 (Rajen Alexander Anderson) (PID Note: Forensic Property736) (WebRef=11381, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Why it feels right to feel guilty about accidental mishaps
- Aeon: Easton - Teaching tolerance in schools cannot avoid controversy: 25/01/2022 (Christina Easton) (WebRef=11386, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Smith - Those born later: 25/01/2022 (Helmut Walser Smith) (WebRef=11387, Unread, Priority=2)
→ In 1985 West Germany’s president gave an unflinching speech. It helped a new generation to face the Nazi past honestly
- Aeon: Ziglioli - What public philosophy is, and why we need it more than ever: 18/01/2022 (Lucia Ziglioli) (WebRef=11373, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Weber - This paradoxical life: 11/01/2022 (Zach Weber) (WebRef=11360, Unread, Priority=2)
→ When logic fails to make sense of a world noisy with inconsistency, paraconsistent logics hold out (im)possible solutions
- Aeon: Gordin - Fringe theories stack: 10/01/2022 (Michael D. Gordin) (WebRef=11420, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Believe in the Loch Ness monster and you’re more likely to believe the Apollo missions were fake. How do weird beliefs work?
- Aeon: Martin - Uncovering Sparta: 10/01/2022 (Daphne D. Martin) (WebRef=11361, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Beil - In pursuit of the hole: 07/01/2022 (Kim Beil) (PID Note: Holes & Smiles737) (WebRef=11345, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Dig into the voids, pin-pricks and cut-outs of art and history, and those absences speak volumes about what’s been missed
- Aeon: Rozenkrantz & D’Mello - Autistic people challenge preconceived ideas about rationality: 05/01/2022 (Liron Rozenkrantz & Anila D’Mello) (PID Note: Psychopathology738) (WebRef=11347, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Lawson - How to connect with your grandchildren: 22/12/2021 (Jill Lawson) (WebRef=11332, Unread, Priority=2)
→ You have a joyous opportunity to support the next generation. Be yourself, be firm but fair, and bond through tradition
- Aeon: Smillie - Your sense of right and wrong is interwoven with your personality: 22/12/2021 (Luke D. Smillie) (WebRef=11331, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Kinsella - Trolls be gone: 20/12/2021 (Stephen Kinsella) (WebRef=11338, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Anonymous users generate most toxic abuse and conspiracy theories online. The right to be anonymous should be curtailed
- Aeon: Hesketh - What Big History misses: 16/12/2021 (Ian Hesketh) (WebRef=11314, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Sweeping the human story into a cosmic tale is a thrill but we should be wary about what is overlooked in the grandeur
- Aeon: Berent - Our innate ideas prevent us seeing what is innate in human nature: 14/12/2021 (Iris Berent) (PID Note: Human Beings739) (WebRef=11305, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Tobin - The art of the plot twist: 14/12/2021 (Vera Tobin) (PID Note: Fiction740) (WebRef=11306, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Some twists infuriate; others are brilliant. But they both use the surprise story as a self-exploding confidence game
- Aeon: Miller - The virtue of honesty requires more than just telling the truth: 13/12/2021 (Christian B. Miller) (PID Note: Forensic Property741) (WebRef=11308, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Lawler - Unearthing David’s city: 10/12/2021 (Andrew Lawler) (WebRef=11292, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Archaeologist Eilat Mazar dug with a spade in one hand and a Bible in the other. Should her theories be taken seriously?
- Aeon: Sesterka & Bulluss - How to be a good friend to an Autistic person: 08/12/2021 (Abby Sesterka & Erin Bulluss) (PID Note: Psychopathology742) (WebRef=11297, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Autistic and non-autistic people see the social world differently. But openness and empathy can foster a valuable bond
- Aeon: Perlman - Humans’ gift for charades helps explain the origin of language: 08/12/2021 (Marcus Perlman) (PID Note: Language of Thought743) (WebRef=11294, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: de Ruiter - Why we should rethink our moral intuitions about deepfakes: 08/12/2021 (Adrienne de Ruiter) (WebRef=11296, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Irvine & Smith - Songs of conquest: 07/12/2021 (Thomas Irvine & Christopher J. Smith) (WebRef=11286, Unread, Priority=2)
→ From Tallis’s choral beauty to the unnerving bells of Mexico City, early modern power created a whole new world of sound
- Aeon: Monti - A stable sense of self is rooted in the lungs, heart and gut: 06/12/2021 (Alessandro Monti) (PID Note: Self744) (WebRef=11287, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Baggott - Calculate but don’t shut up: 06/12/2021 (Jim Baggott) (PID Note: Quantum Mechanics745) (WebRef=11288, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The cliché has it that the Copenhagen interpretation demands adherence without deep enquiry. That does physics a disservice
- Aeon: Makdisi - East of Zionism: 03/12/2021 (Ussama Makdisi) (WebRef=11290, Unread, Priority=2)
→ In 1900 my grandfather’s generation imagined a modernising Arab world, multireligious and progressive. What happened?
- Aeon: Ivanova - The beautiful experiment: 02/12/2021 (Milena Ivanova) (WebRef=11277, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Science has become extraordinarily technocratic and complex. Is the simple and decisive experiment still a worthy ideal?
- Aeon: Pang - How to rest well: 01/12/2021 (Alex Soojung-Kim Pang) (WebRef=11279, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Taking a break isn’t lazy – learning to recharge is a skill that will allow you to enjoy a more creative, sustainable life
- Aeon: Buckareff - Sisyphus, skateboarders, and the value in endless failure: 01/12/2021 (Andrei A. Buckareff) (WebRef=11276, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Haber - Either/or questions are part of psychotherapy’s language games: 30/11/2021 (Darren Haber) (WebRef=11281, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Gutmann - Are men animals?: 29/11/2021 (Matthias Gutmann) (WebRef=11258, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Diagnosing men as violent and oversexed beasts is tempting but it’s a regressive idea built on dubious analogies
- Aeon: Handley - Marge and Homer’s ice cream argument, or why metaethics matters: 29/11/2021 (Rachel Handley) (PID Note: Forensic Property746) (WebRef=11257, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Karmon - Being in a building: 26/11/2021 (David Karmon) (WebRef=11259, Unread, Priority=2)
→ One of the great buildings of the Renaissance reminds us that buildings are made to be explored, smelled and even tasted
- Aeon: Jacobs - Promethean beasts: 25/11/2021 (Ivo Jacobs) (WebRef=11261, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
- Aeon: Dimsdale - Brainwashing has a grim history that we shouldn’t dismiss: 24/11/2021 (Joel E. Dimsdale) (WebRef=11260, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Laciny - Why neurodiversity and entomology so often go together: 24/11/2021 (Alice Laciny) (WebRef=11267, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Hassan & Poole - Childhood shyness can be advantageous – don’t pathologise it: 23/11/2021 (Raha Hassan & Kristie Poole) (WebRef=11265, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Ritts & Rosenbaum - The humane asylum: 23/11/2021 (Madeleine Ritts & Daniel Rosenbaum) (WebRef=11264, Unread, Priority=2)
→ As a society we are failing people with severe, persistent mental illness. It’s time to reimagine institutional care
- Aeon: Carr - Brain scans look stunning, but what do they actually mean?: 22/11/2021 (Danielle Carr) (PID Note: Brain747) (WebRef=11263, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Horowitz, Stickgold & Zadra - Inside your dreamscape: 19/11/2021 (Adam Haar Horowitz, Robert Stickgold & Antonio Zadra) (PID Note: Sleep748) (WebRef=11238, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation
- Aeon: Black - This riotous life: 18/11/2021 (Riley Black) (WebRef=11240, Unread, Priority=2)
→ There’s no rhythm to mass extinctions, no pattern to evolutionary recovery. Life bursts forth, in cacophonous adaptation
- Aeon: Weinberger - Learn from machine learning: 15/11/2021 (David Weinberger) (WebRef=11237, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The world is a black box full of extreme specificity: it might be predictable but that doesn’t mean it is understandable
- Aeon: Skibba - Decolonising the cosmos: 12/11/2021 (Ramin Skibba) (PID Note: Transhumanism749) (WebRef=11192, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Instead of treating Mars and the Moon as sites of conquest and settlement, we need a radical new ethics of space exploration
- Aeon: Ahuja - The body is not a machine: 11/11/2021 (Nitin K. Ahuja) (PID Note: Body750) (WebRef=11195, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Modern biomedicine sees the body as a closed mechanistic system. But illness shows us to be permeable, ecological beings
- Aeon: Law - How to think about weird things: 10/11/2021 (Stephen Law) (WebRef=11197, Unread, Priority=2)
→ From discs in the sky to faces in toast, learn to weigh evidence sceptically without becoming a closed-minded naysayer
- Aeon: Vogel - When a tricky task makes your brain hurt, here’s what to do: 09/11/2021 (Todd Vogel) (WebRef=11186, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Whiteley & Birch - Depression is more than low mood – it’s a change of consciousness: 08/11/2021 (Cecily Whiteley & Jonathan Birch) (PID Note: Psychopathology751) (WebRef=11189, Unread, Priority=2)
→ You’ve lost a habitable Earth. You’ve lost the invitation to live that the Universe extends to us at every moment. You’ve lost something that people don’t even know is. That’s why it’s so hard to explain.
- Aeon: Keum - Why philosophy needs myth: 08/11/2021 (Tae-Yeoun Keum) (WebRef=11190, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Some see Plato as a pure rationalist, others as a fantastical mythmaker. His deft use of stories tells a more complex tale
- Aeon: Roberts - How to maintain a healthy brain: 03/11/2021 (Kailas Roberts) (PID Note: Psychopathology752) (WebRef=11152, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Adopt these lifestyle changes and you will not only sharpen your mind today but also reduce your risk of dementia later on
- Aeon: Sheff - How do you know?: 02/11/2021 (Nate Sheff) (WebRef=11155, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Correct information doesn’t always come with its own bright halo of truth. What makes something worth believing?
- Aeon: Curry, Alfano, Brandt & Pelican - ‘Moral molecules’ – a new theory of what goodness is made of: 01/11/2021 (Oliver Scott Curry, Mark Alfano, Mark Brandt & Christine Pelican) (WebRef=11157, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Ball - Homo imaginatus: 29/10/2021 (Philip Ball) (WebRef=11146, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Imagination isn’t just a spillover from our problem-solving prowess. It might be the core of what human brains evolved to do
- Aeon: Tremblay - Philosophy is like athletics – theory must be put into practice: 25/10/2021 (Michael Tremblay) (WebRef=11143, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Powell - The search for alien tech: 25/10/2021 (Corey S. Powell) (WebRef=11144, Unread, Priority=2)
→ There’s a new plan to find extraterrestrial civilisations by the way they live. But if we can see them, can they see us?
- Aeon: Scanlan - The emancipated Empire: 22/10/2021 (Pedraic Scanlan) (WebRef=11128, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The British Empire was first built on slavery and then on the moral and economic self-confidence of antislavery
- Aeon: Lyon - On the origin of minds: 21/10/2021 (Pamela Lyon) (WebRef=11131, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Cognition did not appear out of nowhere in ‘higher’ animals but goes back millions, perhaps billions, of years
- Aeon: van Prooijen - How conspiracy theories bypass people’s rationality: 20/10/2021 (Jan-Willem van Prooijen) (WebRef=11120, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Torres - Against longtermism: 19/10/2021 (Phil Torres) (WebRef=11124, Unread, Priority=2)
→ It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous
- Aeon: Letsas & Meckled-Garcia - In sport, as in life, tactical fouling is fundamentally wrong: 18/10/2021 (George Letsas & Saladin Meckled-Garcia) (WebRef=11127, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Scales - Defend the deep: 15/10/2021 (Helen Scales) (WebRef=11106, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Instead of letting waves of exploitation sweep through the deep ocean, we could choose to protect this vast living realm
- Aeon: Clasen - Fear not: 14/10/2021 (Mathias Clasen) (WebRef=11108, Unread, Priority=2)
→ You might think that horror movies are a delicious, trashy pleasure. But watching them has surprisingly wholesome effects
- Aeon: Mecking - Why parenting books are not really written for the parents: 13/10/2021 (Olga Mecking) (WebRef=11107, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Frame - What geometry taught me about awe, love and grief: 12/10/2021 (Michael Frame) (WebRef=11099, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: McFadden - Why simplicity works: 11/10/2021 (Johnjoe McFadden) (WebRef=11103, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Does the existence of a multiverse hold the key for why nature’s laws seem so simple?
- Aeon: Dermendzhiyska - Feeling, in situ: 08/10/2021 (Elitsa Dermendzhiyska) (WebRef=11090, Unread, Priority=2)
→ What if emotions are not universal and hardwired but exquisite acts of meaning-making specific to context and culture?
- Aeon: Kia - Being Persian: 07/10/2021 (Mana Kia) (WebRef=11093, Unread, Priority=2)
→ To be Persian before nationalism was to belong to a generous, plural identity woven through language, kin and manners
- Aeon: Kringelbach - The brain has a team of conductors orchestrating consciousness: 06/10/2021 (Morten Kringelbach) (WebRef=11081, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Hill - When hope is a hindrance: 04/10/2021753
- Aeon: Rothschild - Slavery en famille: 01/10/2021 (Emma Rothschild) (PID Note: Race754) (WebRef=11076, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The story of Marie Aymard and five generations of her family tells an intimate history of slavery in a small French town
- Aeon: Verny - Enduring memory: 30/09/2021 (Thomas Verny) (PID Note: Memory755) (WebRef=11079, Unread, Priority=2)
→ How can animals whose brains have been drastically remodelled still recall their kin, their traumas and their skills?
- Aeon: Reiner - How to be a man: 29/09/2021 (Andrew Reiner) (PID Note: Narrative Identity756) (WebRef=11067, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Old ideas of manliness make us miserable. Being labelled ‘toxic’ doesn’t help. A reimagined masculinity is the way forward
- Aeon: Falbo - Fitting in is human: forcing someone to fit in is oppression: 27/09/2021 (Arianna Falbo) (PID Note: Narrative Identity757) (WebRef=11072, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Devji - What is ‘the West’?: 20/09/2021 (Faisal Devji) (WebRef=11058, Unread, Priority=2)
→ While the West belonged to a European geography, its name meant something. Now it is a vague invocation, laden with fear
- Aeon: Savage & West - Why do we sleep?: 17/09/2021 (Van Savage & Geoffrey West) (PID Note: Sleep758) (WebRef=11040, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Adults sleep less than babies. Sperm whales sleep less again. A new mathematical theory unlocks the mysteries of slumber
- Aeon: Orvell - Lost perspective? Try this linguistic trick to reset your view: 15/09/2021 (Ariana Orvell) (WebRef=11045, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Green & Shariff - Our evolved intuitions about privacy aren’t made for this era: 15/09/2021 (Joe Green & Azim Shariff) (PID Note: Evolution759) (WebRef=11042, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Mermikides - Maestro of more than music: 10/09/2021 (Milton Mermikides) (WebRef=11035, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Look beneath the surface of Bach’s music and you will find a fascinating hidden world of numerology and cunning craft
- Aeon: Igarashi - The cliché writes back: 09/09/2021 (Yohei Igarashi) (WebRef=11038, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Machine-written literature might offend your tastes but until the dawn of Romanticism most writers were just as formulaic
- Aeon: Money - The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence: 01/09/2021 (Nicholas P. Money) (PID Note: Plants760) (WebRef=11013, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Gough - The mind does not exist: 30/08/2021 (Joe Gough) (PID Note: Mind761) (WebRef=11006, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are messy, harmful and distracting. We should get rid of them
- Aeon: Alexander - Apocalypse, please: 20/08/2021 (Travis Alexander) (WebRef=10956, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The COVID-19 pandemic, like other catastrophes before it, got some of us hooked on phobic energy and terror. Why?
- Aeon: Smith - Pixel: a biography: 19/08/2021 (Alvy Ray Smith) (PID Note: Computers762) (WebRef=10959, Unread, Priority=2)
→ An exact mathematical concept, pixels are the elementary particles of pictures, based on a subtle unpacking of infinity
- Aeon: Treur - Mental illness and substance use: genes show a two-way street: 18/08/2021 (Jorien Treur) (PID Note: Psychopathology763) (WebRef=10958, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Mamdani - The South African model: 17/08/2021 (Mahood Mamdani) (PID Note: Race764) (WebRef=10951, Unread, Priority=2)
→ What the United States and other settler societies can learn from South Africa’s push to create a nonracial democracy
- Aeon: Tsakiris - The behavioural immune system protects us, but at what cost?: 16/08/2021 (Manos Tsakiris) (WebRef=10953, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Vintiadis - The view from her: 16/08/2021 (Elly Vintiadis) (WebRef=10954, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Is there something special about the way women do philosophy or is that just another essentialist idea holding us back?
- Aeon: Levinson - A fourth globalisation: 12/08/2021 (Marc Levinson) (WebRef=10941, Unread, Priority=2)
→ A new form of trade is reshaping our world, and it’s driven by the movement of bits and bytes, not goods, around the globe
- Aeon: Wampole - Can culture degenerate?: 05/08/2021 (Christy Wampole) (PID Note: Race765) (WebRef=10916, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Tempting it might be, but the idea that culture has become vacuous and banal comes with unsavoury implications
- Aeon: Moller - Bach’s piano music is intimate precision and Homeric epic in one: 03/08/2021 (Dan Moller) (WebRef=10906, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Evans - After neurodiversity: 29/07/2021 (Bonnie Evans) (PID Note: Psychopathology766) (WebRef=10896, Unread, Priority=2)
→ We live in a world that must move beyond identity politics and embrace new models of the mind. Enter psydiversity
- Aeon: Okrent - Typos, tricks and misprints: 26/07/2021 (Arika Okrent) (WebRef=10893, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology
- Aeon: de Sousa - Forget morality: 23/07/2021 (Ronald De Sousa) (PID Note: Forensic Property767) (WebRef=10878, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Mullaney - How a solitary prisoner decoded Chinese for the QWERTY keyboard: 21/07/2021 (Tom Mullaney) (PID Note: Computers768) (WebRef=10882, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Nord - Mental disorders are brain disorders – here’s why that matters: 20/07/2021 (Camilla Nord) (PID Note: Psychopathology769) (WebRef=10873, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Merritt - A non-Standard model: 19/07/2021 (David Merritt) (WebRef=10877, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Most cosmologists say dark matter must exist. So far, it’s nowhere to be found. A widely scorned rival theory explains why
- Aeon: Markey - How to love your body: 14/07/2021 (Charlotte H. Markey) (PID Note: Body770) (WebRef=10856, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Are you unhappy with what you see in the mirror? Getting comfortable in your own skin can be hard work, but it’s worth it
- Aeon: Newson - Why do hardcore football fans behave like rutting stags?: 14/07/2021 (Martha Newson) (PID Note: Evolution771) (WebRef=10864, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Rapley - Plagues and empires: 13/07/2021 (John Rapley) (WebRef=10859, Unread, Priority=2)
→ What can the decline of the Roman Empire and the end of European feudalism tell us about COVID-19 and the future of the West?
- Aeon: Agarwal - Is grandad on the moon?: 08/07/2021 (Pragya Agarwal) (PID Note: Death772) (WebRef=10836, Unread, Priority=2)
→ We no longer have a clear sense of how to introduce our children to death. But their questions can help us face up to it
- Aeon: Matthews - Talk of toxic masculinity puts the blame in all the wrong places: 07/07/2021 (Heidi Matthews) (PID Note: Psychopathology773) (WebRef=10837, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Kiverstein, Rietveld & Denys - World wide open: 06/07/2021 (Julian Kiverstein, Erik Rietveld & Damiaan Denys) (PID Note: Brain774) (WebRef=10828, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Deep brain stimulation not only treats psychiatric disease – it changes the whole person, boosting confidence and openness
- Aeon: Smith - Africa writes back: 17/06/2021 (D. Vance Smith) (PID Note: Race775) (WebRef=10773, Unread, Priority=2)
→ European ideas of African illiteracy are persistent, prejudiced and, as the story of Libyc script shows, entirely wrong
- Aeon: Byerly - Is improving your personality a moral duty or a category confusion?: 16/06/2021 (T. Ryan Byerly) (PID Note: Personality776) (WebRef=10772, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Bothwell - Contact: 15/06/2021 (Matthew Bothwell) (PID Note: Transhumanism777) (WebRef=10767, Unread, Priority=2)
→ An alien-made artefact or just interstellar debris? What ʻOumuamua says about how science works when data is scarce
- Aeon: Zerilli - Should we be concerned that the decisions of AIs are inscrutable?: 14/06/2021 (John Zerilli) (PID Note: Transhumanism778) (WebRef=10769, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Daly - Philosophy’s lack of progress: 11/06/2021 (Chris Daly) (WebRef=10737, Unread, Priority=2)
→ For centuries, all philosophers seem to have done is question and debate. Why do philosophical problems resist solution?
- Aeon: Sterelny - How equality slipped away: 10/06/2021 (Kim Sterelny) (WebRef=10740, Unread, Priority=2)
→ For 97 per cent of human history, all people had about the same power and access to goods. How did inequality ratchet up?
- Aeon: Carbonell & Liao - Some medical devices don’t mean to be racist, but they are: 09/06/2021 (Vanessa Carbonell & Shen-yi Liao) (PID Note: Race779) (WebRef=10730, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Simon - Why your consciousness depends on the low-entropy early Universe: 09/06/2021 (Jonathan Simon) (PID Note: Consciousness780) (WebRef=10739, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Smith - Exit the Fatherland: 03/06/2021 (Helmut Walser Smith) (WebRef=10697, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Shaking off Nazism was no simple matter: the work to create a plural and peacable Germany was prolonged and painful
- Aeon: Hanusiak - Feel free to stop striving: learn to relish being an amateur: 02/06/2021 (Xenia Hanusiak) (WebRef=10696, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Law - My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains: 02/06/2021 (Stephen Law) (PID Note: Wittgenstein781) (WebRef=10688, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Peterson - Self-knowledge is a super power – if it’s not an illusion: 26/05/2021 (Jared Peterson) (PID Note: Self782) (WebRef=10684, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Miller & White - The warped self: 25/05/2021 (Mark Miller & Ben White) (PID Note: Self783) (WebRef=10675, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Social media makes us feel terrible about who we really are. Neuroscience explains why – and empowers us to fight back
- Aeon: Harris - 800 years of rape culture: 24/05/2021 (Carissa Harris) (WebRef=10678, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Rape in the Middle Ages was seen as a routine part of women’s lives, even as it was condemned. How far have we really come?
- Aeon: Huq - When a machine decision does you wrong, here’s what we should do: 24/05/2021 (Aziz Huq) (PID Note: Transhumanism784) (WebRef=10677, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Cernis - When reality slips through your fingers: in search of dissociation: 19/05/2021 (Emma Cernis) (PID Note: Psychopathology785) (WebRef=10667, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Wallace - You are a network: 18/05/2021 (Kathleen Wallace) (PID Note: Self786) (WebRef=10661, Unread, Priority=2)
→ You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity
- Aeon: Boin - Enlisted, enslaved, enthroned: 17/05/2021 (Douglas Boin) (PID Note: Narrative Identity787) (WebRef=10664, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Vandals, Goths, Alemanni, Sueves… the Romans grappled endlessly with the status of ethnic peoples in their vast empire
- Aeon: Egan - What our use of animal-based slurs and endearments says about us: 12/05/2021 (David Egan) (PID Note: Animals788) (WebRef=10654, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Lone - Philosophy with children: 11/05/2021 (Jana Mohr Lone) (WebRef=10647, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Kids don’t just say ‘the darndest things’. Playful and probing, they can be closer to the grain of life’s deepest questions
- Aeon: Moses - Who counts as a victim?: 10/05/2021 (A. Dirk Moses) (PID Note: Forensic Property789) (WebRef=10650, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Innocent, passive, apolitical: after the Holocaust, the standard for ‘true’ victimhood has worked to justify total war
- Aeon: Alpert - Reincarnation now: 07/05/2021 (Avram Alpert) (PID Note: Reincarnation790) (WebRef=10634, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Modern mindfulness strips Buddhism of its spiritual core. We need an ethics of reincarnation for an interconnected world
- Aeon: King - My cancer scars map the pain of animals held in research labs: 05/05/2021 (Barbara J. King) (PID Note: Animal Rights791) (WebRef=10623, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Peterson - A city but not upon a hill: 03/05/2021 (Mark Peterson) (PID Note: Narrative Identity792) (WebRef=10630, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Entangled with, yet critical of, colonial oppression and the evils of slavery, the true history of Boston can now be told
- Aeon: Muotri - Brains in a dish: 30/04/2021 (Alysson Muotri) (PID Note: Brain793) (WebRef=10610, Unread, Priority=2)
→ What pea-sized brain organoids reveal about consciousness, the self and our future as a species
- Aeon: Stern - Authenticity is a sham: 27/04/2021 (Alexander Stern) (PID Note: Narrative Identity794) (WebRef=10604, Unread, Priority=2)
→ From monks to existentialists and hipsters, the search for a true self has been a centuries-long project. Should we give it up?
- Aeon: Simon - ‘It cannot be helped’: on facing death as calmly as a pirate: 21/04/2021 (Rebecca Simon) (PID Note: Death795) (WebRef=10599, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Barboianu - Mathematics for gamblers: 20/04/2021 (Catalin Barboianu) (PID Note: Probability796) (WebRef=10592, Unread, Priority=2)
→ If philosophers and mathematicians struggle with probability, can gamblers really hope to grasp their losing game?
- Aeon: Reed-Sandoval - Why I shut down an argument in my philosophy for children class: 20/04/2021 (Amy Reed-Sandoval) (WebRef=10591, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Yu - The radical impact of seeing Alzheimer’s as a second childhood: 19/04/2021 (Han Yu) (PID Note: Psychopathology797) (WebRef=10594, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Sperber - Looking at portraits with an eye to evolutionary psychology: 14/04/2021 (Dan Sperber) (PID Note: Evolution798) (WebRef=10575, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: McFadden - Brain wifi: 05/04/2021 (Johnjoe McFadden) (PID Note: Consciousness799) (WebRef=10559, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Instead of a code encrypted in the wiring of our neurons, could consciousness reside in the brain’s electromagnetic field?
- Aeon: Gregorevich - The gender of dementia: 01/04/2021 (Kate Gregorevich) (PID Note: Psychopathology800) (WebRef=10542, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Are women really at greater risk from dementia? Until we reckon with social roles and inequalities, it’s impossible to say
- Aeon: Gazipura - How to save yourself another pointless guilt trip: 31/03/2021 (Aziz Gazipura) (WebRef=10531, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Just because you feel guilty doesn’t mean you’ve done something wrong. Relax the rules you live by and set yourself free
- Aeon: Woods - What Arthur Schopenhauer learned about genius at the asylum: 31/03/2021 (David Bather Woods) (PID Note: Psychopathology801) (WebRef=10530, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Green - After slavery: 30/03/2021 (Toby Green) (PID Note: Race802) (WebRef=10534, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Abolition in Africa brought longed-for freedoms, but also political turmoil, economic collapse and rising enslavement
- Aeon: Harden - The science of terrible men: 11/03/2021 (Kathryn Paige Harden) (PID Note: Race803) (WebRef=10456, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The pioneers of social genetics were racists and eugenicists: should we give up on the science they founded altogether?
- Aeon: Read - Shocked: 04/03/2021 (John Read) (PID Note: Psychopathology804) (WebRef=10442, Unread, Priority=2)
→ It damages memory and cognition, and brings no lasting relief. Why is ‘electroshock’ therapy still a mainstay of psychiatry?
- Aeon: Schaffner - You’re not a computer, you’re a tiny stone in a beautiful mosaic: 03/03/2021 (Anna Katharina Schaffner) (PID Note: What are We?805) (WebRef=10444, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Melton - Racism has broadened ‘Black time’ to an always and everywhere: 01/03/2021 (Desiree H. Melton) (PID Note: Race806) (WebRef=10438, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Kaur - Brand India: 18/02/2021 (Ravinder Kaur) (PID Note: Race807) (WebRef=10413, Unread, Priority=2)
→ How a country used myth and mystique to tempt global investors – and seeded a toxic Hindu nationalism in the process
- Aeon: Chai - There has never been a time when this article didn’t exist: 17/02/2021 (David Chai) (PID Note: Ontology808) (WebRef=10402, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Schaefer - If you stay mentally well your entire life, you’re not normal: 16/02/2021 (Jonathan D. Schaefer) (PID Note: Psychopathology809) (WebRef=10404, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Sleigh - The abuses of Popper: 16/02/2021 (Charlotte Sleigh) (WebRef=10405, Unread, Priority=2)
→ A powerful cadre of scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for
- Aeon: Bostrom - How vulnerable is the world?: 12/02/2021 (Nick Bostrom & Matthew van der Merwe) (PID Note: Transhumanism810) (WebRef=10395, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilisation might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?
- Aeon: Davidann - The myth of Westernisation: 09/02/2021 (Jon Davidann) (PID Note: Race811) (WebRef=10389, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Americans liked to believe that Japan was Westernising through the 20th century but Japan was vigorously doing the opposite
- Aeon: Singh - Beyond the !Kung: 08/02/2021 (Manvir Singh) (PID Note: Evolution812) (WebRef=10392, Unread, Priority=2)
→ A grand research project created our origin myth that early human societies were all egalitarian, mobile and small-scale
- Aeon: Simon - Machine in the ghost: 05/02/2021 (Ed Simon) (PID Note: Religion813) (WebRef=10375, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Can a robot pray? Does an AI have a soul? Advances in automata raise theological debates that will shape the secular world
- Aeon: Marino - They are prisoners: 02/02/2021 (Lori Marino) (PID Note: Animal Rights814) (WebRef=10370, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Captive orcas are tormented by boredom and family separation, but they cannot be simply released. What’s the solution?
- Aeon: McCallum - The tyranny of work: 28/01/2021 (Jamie McCallum) (PID Note: Narrative Identity815) (WebRef=10347, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Jobs have become, for so many, a relentless, unsatisfying toil. Why then does the work ethic still hold so much sway?
- Aeon: Wold & Bohme - Technology promises hugs at a distance. Beware what you wish for: 25/01/2021 (Andrew Wold & Rebecca Bohme) (PID Note: Transhumanism816) (WebRef=10344, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Fridman - The problem with prediction: 25/01/2021 (Joseph Fridman) (PID Note: Consciousness817) (WebRef=10336, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Cognitive scientists and corporations alike see human minds as predictive machines. Right or wrong, they will change how we think
- Aeon: Busch - How to be lucky: 20/01/2021 (Christian Busch) (PID Note: Probability818) (WebRef=10278, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Most of us think that luck just happens (or doesn’t) but everyone can learn to look for the unexpected and find serendipity
- Aeon: Levinovitz - Natural and unnatural: 19/01/2021 (Alan Jay Levinovitz) (PID Note: Natural Kinds819) (WebRef=10281, Unread, Priority=2)
→ ‘Natural’ remedies are metaphysically inconsistent and unscientific. Yet they offer something that modern medicine cannot
- Aeon: D'Alfonso - Should smartphone data be harnessed to track mental health?: 19/01/2021 (Simon D'Alfonso) (PID Note: Psychopathology820) (WebRef=10280, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Kinney - The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune: 18/01/2021 (David Kinney) (PID Note: Free Will821) (WebRef=10283, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Uribe - To be a responsible citizen today, it is not enough to be reasonable: 12/01/2021 (Francisco Mejia Uribe) (PID Note: Society822) (WebRef=10259, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Laland & Chiu - Evolution’s engineers: 11/01/2021 (Kevin Laland & Lynn Chiu) (PID Note: Evolution823) (WebRef=10262, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Organisms do not evolve blindly under forces beyond their control, but shape and influence the evolutionary environment itself
- Aeon: Hales - Sudden amnesia showed me the self is a convenient fiction: 11/01/2021 (Steven D. Hales) (PID Note: Self824) (WebRef=10261, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Fischer - The problem of now: 08/01/2021 (John Martin Fischer) (PID Note: Time825) (WebRef=10229, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The injunction to immerse yourself in the present might be psychologically potent, but is it metaphysically meaningful?
- Aeon: Law - The necessity of Kripke: 04/01/2021 (Stephen Law) (PID Note: Modality826) (WebRef=10228, Unread, Priority=2)
→ No one with an interest in philosophy or debates about identity can afford to be ignorant of the work of Saul Kripke
- Aeon: Ariel - Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking: 23/12/2020827
- Aeon: Cox - When does a human embryo have the moral status of a person?: 09/12/2020 (David Cox) (PID Note: Embryo828) (WebRef=10176, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Gandy - Altered states can help us face death with serenity and levity: 08/12/2020 (Sam Gandy) (PID Note: Death829) (WebRef=10179, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Neumann & Kaufman - Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?: 07/12/2020 (Craig Neumann & Scott Barry Kaufman) (PID Note: Psychopathology830) (WebRef=10182, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Nixon - The body as mediator: 07/12/2020 (Dan Nixon) (PID Note: Body831) (WebRef=10183, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty entwines us, via our own beating, pulsing, living bodies, in the lives of others
- Aeon: Cameron - Captive culture: 04/12/2020 (Catherine M. Cameron) (PID Note: Race832) (WebRef=10167, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Even when enslaved or despised, captives brought novel ideas and technologies to the societies of their captors
- Aeon: Yon - It’s not necessarily deluded to feel in control when you’re not: 02/12/2020 (Daniel Yon) (PID Note: Free Will833) (WebRef=10162, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Matějčková - How Emil Utitz salvaged his humanity in a non-human world: 30/11/2020 (Teresa Matějčková) (PID Note: Race834) (WebRef=10160, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Autry - Sociology’s race problem: 26/11/2020 (Robyn Autry) (PID Note: Race835) (WebRef=10129, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Urban ethnographers do more harm than good in speaking for Black communities. They see only suffering, not diversity or joy
- Aeon: Botero - Chimpanzees correct cultural biases about how good mothers behave: 25/11/2020 (Maria Botero) (PID Note: Animals836) (WebRef=10124, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: de Vignemont & Klein - How close is too close?: 24/11/2020 (Frederique de Vignemont & Colin Klein) (PID Note: Self837) (WebRef=10118, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The neuroscience of peripersonal space explores how you create, defend or relax the buffer zone between you and the world
- Aeon: Gotlib - Trauma unmakes the world of the self. Can stories repair it?: 23/11/2020 (Anna Gotlib) (PID Note: Self838) (WebRef=10120, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Kacar - Do we send the goo?: 20/11/2020 (Betül Kaçar) (PID Note: Life839) (WebRef=10108, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The ability to stir new life into being, all across the Universe, compels us to ask why life matters in the first place
- Aeon: Ball - Life with purpose: 13/11/2020 (Philip Ball) (PID Note: Life840) (WebRef=10086, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Biologists balk at any talk of ‘goals’ or ‘intentions’ – but a bold new research agenda has put agency back on the table
- Aeon: Parens - The genes we’re dealt: 10/11/2020 (Erik Parens) (PID Note: Race841) (WebRef=10085, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The new field of social genomics can be used by progressives to combat racial inequality or by conservatives to excuse it
- Aeon: Gopnik - Vulnerable yet vital: 09/11/2020 (Alison Gopnik) (PID Note: Evolution842) (WebRef=10082, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The dance of love and lore between grandparent and grandchild is at the centre, not the fringes, of our evolutionary story
- Aeon: Johnson - Archaeology excavates the layers of meaning we leave behind: 04/11/2020843
- Aeon: Waltner-Toews - The wisdom of pandemics: 03/11/2020 (David Waltner-Toews) (PID Note: Evolution844) (WebRef=10059, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Viruses are active agents, existing within rich lifeworlds. A safe future depends on understanding this evolutionary story
- Aeon: Filmer - These are truly exciting times for the science of brain zapping: 03/11/2020 (Hannah Filmer) (PID Note: Brain State Transfer845) (WebRef=10061, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Crucianelli - The need to touch: 26/10/2020 (Laura Crucianelli) (PID Note: Society846) (WebRef=10048, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The language of touch binds our minds and bodies to the broader social world. What happens when touch becomes taboo?
- Aeon: Bruehl - Stanislavski’s revelation: we’re more than the parts we play: 21/10/2020 (William Justice Bruehl) (PID Note: Narrative Identity847) (WebRef=10034, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Platts-Mills - Memory involves the whole body. It’s how the self defies amnesia: 19/10/2020 (Ben Platts-Mills) (PID Note: Memory848) (WebRef=10026, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Levin & Dennett - Cognition all the way down: 13/10/2020 (Michael Levin & Daniel Dennett) (PID Note: Consciousness849) (WebRef=10005, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Biology’s next great horizon is to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones)
- Aeon: Griffiths - Sex is real: 21/09/2020 (Paul Griffiths) (PID Note: Narrative Identity850) (WebRef=9939, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Yes, there are just two biological sexes. No, this doesn’t mean every living thing is either one or the other
- Aeon: Alshanetsky - Thoughts into words: 14/09/2020 (Eli Alshanetsky) (PID Note: Language of Thought851) (WebRef=9927, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Here’s the paradox of articulation: are you excavating existing ideas, or do your thoughts come into being as you speak?
- Aeon: Thibaut - Consciousness regained: 05/06/2020 (Aurore Thibaut) (PID Note: Consciousness852) (WebRef=9509, Unread, Priority=2)
→ After years of deep therapeutic pessimism, emerging therapies offer hope for patients trapped between coma and wakefulness
- Aeon: Finn - Love is a hold’em game: 04/03/2020 (Suki Finn) (PID Note: Probability853) (WebRef=9226, Unread, Priority=2)
→ While some keep their cards close to their chest, others try raising the stakes. What can poker teach us about dating?
- Aeon: Makdisi - Cosmopolitan Ottomans: 17/10/2019 (Ussama Makdisi) (PID Note: Race854) (WebRef=8018, Unread, Priority=2)
→ European colonisation put an abrupt end to political experiments towards a more equal, diverse and ecumenical Arab world
- Aeon: Leavens - The pointing ape: 01/10/2019 (David Leavens) (PID Note: Animals855) (WebRef=7961, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Goldfarb & Kirsch - The economics of bubbles: 08/08/2019 (Brent Goldfarb & David A. Kirsch) (WebRef=11738, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Market booms and busts might be irrational, but we can understand why they happen – and what to do to mitigate the damage
- Aeon: Montgomery - For the hate of dogs: 10/06/2019 (Sy Montgomery) (PID Note: Animals856) (WebRef=8147, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Chappell & Lawford-Smith - Transgender: a dialogue: 15/11/2018 (Sophie Grace Chappell & Holly Lawford-Smith) (PID Note: Narrative Identity857) (WebRef=8546, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The conversation about trans identities has been riven by bitter divisions. Two philosophers offer radically different perspectives
- Aeon: Kempes & Savage - When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions: 22/10/2018 (Chris Kempes & Van Savage) (WebRef=8606, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Ananthaswamy - Through two doors: 02/10/2018 (Anil Ananthaswamy) (WebRef=8567, Unread, Priority=2)
→ How a sunbeam split in two became physics’ most elegant experiment, shedding light on the underlying nature of reality
- Aeon: Nail - Is nature continuous or discrete? How the atomist error was born: 18/05/2018 (Thomas Nail) (WebRef=8909, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Cooperrider - Gesture talks: 14/05/2018 (Kensey Cooperrider) (PID Note: Language of Thought858) (WebRef=9706, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Across vast cultural divides people can understand one another through gesture. Does that make it a universal language?
- Aeon: Aspy - The lucid dreaming playbook: how to take charge of your dreams: 06/04/2018 (Denholm Aspy) (PID Note: Sleep859) (WebRef=8396, Unread, Priority=2)
- Aeon: Bae - In to Asia: 29/03/2018 (Christopher Bae) (WebRef=11089, Unread, Priority=2)
→ New evidence about the ancient humans who occupied Asia is cascading in: the story of our species needs rewriting again
- Aeon: Danaher - Embracing the robot: 19/03/2018 (John Danaher) (PID Note: Transhumanism860) (WebRef=9013, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Robot relationships need not be kinky, exploitative or fake. In fact they might give human relationships a helpful boost
- Aeon: Livingston - Fuck work: 25/11/2016 (James Livingston) (WebRef=11450, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?
- Aeon: McNamara - Dreams and revelations: 05/09/2016 (Patrick McNamara) (PID Note: Sleep861) (WebRef=11394, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The world’s great religions and spiritual journeys emerged from dreams and visions. Neurochemistry tells us how
- Aeon: Llewellyn - Are dreams predictions?: 23/05/2016 (Sue Llewellyn) (PID Note: Sleep862) (WebRef=12317, Unread, Priority=2)
→ Dreams might not be omens or prophecies in a mystical sense, but they do have a distinct psychological predictive power
- Aeon: Delistraty - When it’s good to be bad: 10/03/2016 (Cody Delistraty) (WebRef=12343, Unread, Priority=2)
→ The relentless pursuit of success is valorised in our culture, but taking the long way around is often the best
- Aeon: Wallace - Indifference is a power: 24/12/2014 (Lary Wallace) (WebRef=11818, Unread, Priority=2)
→ As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity
- Aeon: Footman - A broken offering: 16/11/2012 (Tim Footman) (WebRef=11991, Unread, Priority=2)
→ A cracked voice, an empty bank account, a tour of duty. Who would have thought so much light could still get in?
- Priority: 3
- Aeon: Video - Namesake: 14/03/2023 (WebRef=12527, Unread, Priority=3)
→ A biologist on the sorrows of documenting the Great Salt Lake’s collapse
- Aeon: Video - Blaulicht (Blue Light): 22/12/2022 (WebRef=12352, Unread, Priority=3)
→ What is it like to be a paramedic, navigating human emergency?
- Aeon: Video - Great art explained: Edward Hopper and cinema: 06/12/2022 (WebRef=12312, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Edward Hopper came of age with cinema. As an artist, he left a lasting mark on it
- Aeon: Video - The dance of the macaws: 23/11/2022 (PID Note: Narrative Identity863) (WebRef=12285, Unread, Priority=3)
→ An ancient ritual is a window to Mayan culture’s deep past and vibrant present
- Aeon: Video - Names for snow: 08/11/2022 (WebRef=12254, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Yes, the Inuit have dozens of words for snow – but what does each one mean exactly?
- Aeon: Video - Yatta: 02/11/2022 (WebRef=12238, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Hawaii, reflected in intricate and dignified slow photography
- Aeon: Video - Lady of the Gobi: 17/10/2022 (WebRef=12175, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Living out of a truck, Maikhuu finds promise and peril on Mongolia’s ‘coal highway’
- Aeon: Video - Brother: 11/10/2022 (PID Note: Psychopathology864) (WebRef=12152, Unread, Priority=3)
→ From back pain to addiction – one man’s struggle with opioids, as told to his sister
- Aeon: Video - Ghosts: 22/09/2022 (WebRef=12094, Unread, Priority=3)
→ With human help, AIs are generating a new aesthetics. The results are trippy
- Aeon: Video - The rocket on the roof: 04/08/2022 (PID Note: Psychopathology865) (WebRef=11887, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Wesley wants to solve the rooftop mystery – but does he have what it takes?
- Aeon: Video - Martha Nussbaum & Bryan Magee on Aristotle: 12/07/2022866
- Aeon: Video - Now is the time: 06/07/2022 (WebRef=11789, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Restored footage reveals how a totem pole raising sparked a cultural rebirth
- Aeon: Video - Clouds over Corippo: 29/06/2022 (WebRef=11777, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Scenes unfold like Romantic paintings in a touching meditation on grief
- Aeon: Video - Origin of the world map: 28/06/2022 (WebRef=11772, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Master cartography and mythical creatures – the world according to the Catalan Atlas
- Aeon: Video - Good fire: 09/06/2022 (WebRef=11740, Unread, Priority=3)
→ To renew Yosemite, California should embrace a once-outlawed Indigenous practice
- Aeon: Video - Golden jubilee: 31/05/2022 (PID Note: Race867) (WebRef=11715, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Portugal stole Goa’s lands and narratives. Can they ever truly be returned?
- Aeon: Video - Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights: 23/05/2022 (WebRef=11696, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Grotesque imagery meets religious conservatism in Hieronymus Bosch’s art
- Aeon: Video - Phenomena: electicity: 17/05/2022 (WebRef=11680, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Spectacular fractal patterns emerge when electricity meets a wooden surface
- Aeon: Video - The opposites game: 27/04/2022 (WebRef=11617, Unread, Priority=3)
→ An English teacher asks his class: ‘What’s the opposite of a gun?’
- Aeon: Video - Weaving a bamboo house: 17/03/2022 (WebRef=11518, Unread, Priority=3)
→ How the Dorze in Ethiopia make ‘beehive’ houses from bamboo that last a lifetime
- Aeon: Video - Small protests: 15/03/2022 (WebRef=11512, Unread, Priority=3)
→ With barely a possession to his name, Rabbit builds a life around fighting corruption
- Aeon: Video - Insects take flight: 25/01/2022 (WebRef=11385, Unread, Priority=3)
→ How insects become airborne, slowed down to a speed the human eye can appreciate
- Aeon: Video - Brown sounds: 22/12/2021 (WebRef=11326, Unread, Priority=3)
→ A 1960s ode to Black bodies is reborn as a riveting modern opera
- Aeon: Video - Great Art Explained: Mona Lisa: 02/12/2021 (WebRef=11275, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Not just a meme, but a masterpiece – why the Mona Lisa earns its exalted place in art
- Aeon: Video - The legend of Annapurna: 30/11/2021 (WebRef=11280, Unread, Priority=3)
→ How the Hindu myth of Annapurna, goddess of food, connects sustenance with spirituality
- Aeon: Video - Caribbean honeymoon: 15/11/2021 (WebRef=11235, Unread, Priority=3)
→ ‘My people!’ A Trinidadian’s love letter to his island, just before its 1962 independence
- Aeon: Video - Anjan Chatterjee: Neurological disorder and art: 01/11/2021 (PID Note: Psychopathology868) (WebRef=11156, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Artists can flourish after brain damage. What does this say about neurology and aesthetics?
- Aeon: Video - The field trip: 26/10/2021 (WebRef=11139, Unread, Priority=3)
→ ‘Why does life have to be so complicated?’ A school trip to the world of work
- Aeon: Video - The invention of individual responsibility: 16/09/2021 (WebRef=11041, Unread, Priority=3)
→ How did ‘personal responsibility’ evolve into its opposite, ‘everyone for themselves’?
- Aeon: Video - Kapaemahu: 14/09/2021 (WebRef=11046, Unread, Priority=3)
→ The nearly forgotten origin myth of Hawaii’s third-gender healers, as told by one
- Aeon: Video - Captured images: 02/09/2021 (WebRef=11009, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Remarkable historical footage is locked behind paywalls. It’s time to set it free
- Aeon: Video - Small is beautiful: impressions of Fritz Schumacher: 31/08/2021869
- Aeon: Video - Bubble: 30/08/2021 (WebRef=11004, Unread, Priority=3)
→ What do tropical fish make of the strange creatures who love them so?
- Aeon: Video - 9 ways to draw a person: 18/08/2021 (WebRef=10955, Unread, Priority=3)
→ An improvised animation doubles as an absurdly fun lesson in creativity
- Aeon: Video - The shift: 20/07/2021 (WebRef=10872, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Emergency first responders meet chaos with dissonant calm in this gripping short
- Aeon: Video - The same: 29/06/2021 (WebRef=10799, Unread, Priority=3)
→ The buzzes, clanks and whirrs of prison life form a meditation on freedom
- Aeon: Video - The rifleman: 07/06/2021 (WebRef=10734, Unread, Priority=3)
→ How did the NRA transform from a sporting group to a mighty political force?
- Aeon: Video - Tarikat: 19/04/2021 (WebRef=10593, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Dissolve into the immersive, entrancing rhythms of a Sufi chant
- Aeon: Video - My brother's keeper: 01/04/2021 (WebRef=10540, Unread, Priority=3)
→ A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner and his guard reunite as equals 13 years later
- Aeon: Video - Dadli: 31/03/2021 (WebRef=10538, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Join a local boy’s tour of the Antigua that visiting cruise ships never see
- Aeon: Video - Hannah Arendt - What remains?: 30/03/2021 (Hannah Arendt) (WebRef=10532, Unread, Priority=3)
→ ‘What’s essential is, I must understand’: a rare candid interview with Hannah Arendt
- Aeon: Video - 2020: a space odyssey: 11/03/2021 (WebRef=10458, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Spacewalks above, pandemic below – how one ISS crew member experienced 2020
- Aeon: Video - Bear with me: 09/03/2021 (WebRef=10450, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Can you find ‘home’ in another person? What it’s like to follow love across borders
- Aeon: Video - Gut hack: 01/03/2021 (WebRef=10437, Unread, Priority=3)
→ When medicine offers no relief, a biohacker begins a radical self-experiment
- Aeon: Video - Tower: 28/01/2021 (WebRef=10346, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Each memory in different strokes: how four siblings recall a tumultuous childhood
- Aeon: Video - Gradations: 27/01/2021 (WebRef=10337, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Delight as the hard-edged world melts into a full-rainbow spectrum of reality
- Aeon: Video - Portals on Mount Loa: 20/01/2021 (WebRef=10289, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Journey into the deep history of the cosmos via the Mauna Loa volcano
- Aeon: Video - Mind your motives: what would Kant do?: 17/12/2020 (Michael Sandel) (PID Note: Forensic Property870) (WebRef=10192, Unread, Priority=3)
→ All’s not well that ends well – why Kant centred morality on motives, not outcomes
- Aeon: Video - Les mots de la carpe: 09/12/2020 (WebRef=11992, Unread, Priority=3)
→ In the frenzied cacophony of speed dating, silence offers a path to love
- Aeon: Video - The trouble with love and sex: 30/11/2020 (WebRef=10159, Unread, Priority=3)
→ ‘What does sex mean to you?’ A fly-on-the-wall view of relationship counselling
- Aeon: Video - Is Eric Cantona an existentialist?: 23/11/2020 (Nigel Warburton) (WebRef=10119, Unread, Priority=3)
→ What would Sartre make of the footballer who stood by his decision to kick a fan?
- Aeon: Video - How to be at home: 12/11/2020 (WebRef=10087, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Biologists balk at any talk of ‘goals’ or ‘intentions’ – but a bold new research agenda has put agency back on the table
- Aeon: Video - Why do we love? A philosophical enquiry: 02/11/2020 (Skye C. Cleary) (WebRef=10062, Unread, Priority=3)
→ For proof that love is timeless, consider how long philosophers have debated it
- Aeon: Video - XX files - animalia genitalia: 01/11/2020 (PID Note: Evolution871) (WebRef=10052, Unread, Priority=3)
→ A pioneering biologist explains the co-evolution of the vagina and penis
- Aeon: Video - Ashes to ashes: 21/10/2020 (WebRef=10031, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Should art heal the centuries of racial violence and injustice in the US?
- Aeon: Video - Carl Sagan's message to aliens: 19/10/2020872
- Aeon: Video - Giant Steps: 13/10/2020 (PID Note: Psychopathology873) (WebRef=10003, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Step into synaesthesia’s visual soundscape, built with the music of John Coltrane
- Aeon: Video - Mary Beard: Women in power: 01/10/2020874
- Aeon: Video - The physarum experiments: 21/09/2020 (PID Note: Life875) (WebRef=9937, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Creeping through mazes, repelling adversaries – the slow-motion smarts of slime moulds
- Aeon: Video - Everything is stories: reviled and maligned: 08/09/2020 (WebRef=9892, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Does everyone deserve a respectful burial? How a terrorist’s body divided a city
- Aeon: Video - Cape sundews trap bugs in a sticky situation: 31/08/2020 (PID Note: Animals876) (WebRef=9904, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Cape sundews move, react and attack in a way that seems more animal than plant
- Aeon: Video - The impossible chessboard puzzle: 20/08/2020 (WebRef=9849, Unread, Priority=3)
→ This puzzle is nearly impossible – but working out why is its own brain-teaser
- Aeon: Video - Stone cut: 18/08/2020 (WebRef=9843, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Surreal, audacious, unfinished – the Sagrada Família remains a divine work in progress
- Aeon: Video - Home stream: 16/07/2020 (WebRef=9662, Unread, Priority=3)
→ A street-level view of homelessness from a woman living through it
- Aeon: Video - The story of ones: 16/03/2020 (WebRef=9255, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Tune in to the Voice of Vietnam to hear an entire nation in its call-ins and radio dramas
- Aeon: Video - The church forests of Ethiopia: 04/03/2020 (WebRef=9228, Unread, Priority=3)
→ How hundreds of small ‘Gardens of Eden’ guard against total deforestation in Ethiopia
- Aeon: Video - Romanticism: poetry and philosophy: 14/02/2020 (WebRef=9170, Unread, Priority=3)
→ What can the Romantics teach us about confronting modern problems?
- Aeon: Video - Fairytale of the three bears: 07/02/2020 (WebRef=9147, Unread, Priority=3)
→ In rural Russia, the days of Communism are fading from memory like fairytales
- Aeon: Video - Guaxuma: 27/01/2020 (PID Note: Memory877) (WebRef=9083, Unread, Priority=3)
→ ‘Maybe it’s a memory that I’ve made up’ – when grief washes over childhood memories
- Aeon: Video - Mary-Jane Rubenstein: multiverses, pantheism and ecology: 20/01/2020 (Mary-Jane Rubenstein) (WebRef=8957, Unread, Priority=3)
→ If you think that modern cosmology leaves no room for ‘god’, start using your imagination
- Aeon: Video - Bayes's theorem, and making probability intuitive: 17/01/2020 (WebRef=8920, Unread, Priority=3)
→ What is it to be Bayesian? The (pretty simple) math modelling behind a Big Data buzzword
- Aeon: Video - Winners take all: 06/01/2020 (Anand Giridharadas) (WebRef=8768, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Win-win solutions are a fantasy: in reality, progress creates both winners and losers
- Aeon: Video - Santa is a psychedelic mushroom: 16/12/2019 (WebRef=10207, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Are mushrooms, shamans and ancient rituals at the root of the Santa Claus story?
- Aeon: Video - Cooperation and evolution: 21/11/2019 (WebRef=8224, Unread, Priority=3)
- Aeon: Video - What toddlers can teach us about how the human brain does science: 02/08/2019878
- Aeon: Video - Why artificial neural networks have a long way to go before they can ‘see’ like us: 09/07/2019 (WebRef=8078, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Why artificial neural networks have a long way to go before they can ‘see’ like us
- Aeon: Video - What is Antimatter?: 27/06/2019 (WebRef=8116, Unread, Priority=3)
- Aeon: Video - Are you sure? Truth, certainty and politics: 20/05/2019879
- Aeon: Video - Timelapse of the future: 18/04/2019 (WebRef=8271, Unread, Priority=3)
- Aeon: Video - Animal gaits: 05/04/2019 (WebRef=8295, Unread, Priority=3)
- Aeon: Video - Karl Popper: philosophy against false prophets: 28/03/2019 (WebRef=8309, Unread, Priority=3)
- Aeon: Video - Universe: 26/03/2019 (WebRef=8313, Unread, Priority=3)
- Aeon: Video - Stephen Hawking: supertranslation: 25/02/2019 (Stephen Hawking) (WebRef=8346, Unread, Priority=3)
- Aeon: Video - Being 97: 18/02/2019 (WebRef=8358, Unread, Priority=3)
→ An ageing philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all?’
- Aeon: Video - 20 Hz: 15/02/2019 (WebRef=8362, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Magnetic and majestic: visualising the powerful storms hidden from human view
- Aeon: Video - Erica: Man made: 11/02/2019 (WebRef=8371, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Uncanny! Is this humanoid robot a curiosity, or a preview of a post-human world?
- Aeon: Video - The problem of free will: 04/01/2019 (PID Note: Free Will880) (WebRef=8445, Unread, Priority=3)
- Aeon: Video - Seven million years of human evolution: 20/12/2018 (WebRef=8469, Unread, Priority=3)
- Aeon: Video - Cosmologist Pedro Ferreira on dark energy: 17/12/2018 (WebRef=8488, Unread, Priority=3)
- Aeon: Video - What is fat for?: 14/12/2018 (WebRef=8494, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Abundance has made fat an enemy, but it’s been a friend to humans for millennia
- Aeon: Video - The truth about algorithms: 20/11/2018881
- Aeon: Video - Want a whole new body? Ask this flatworm how: 15/11/2018 (PID Note: Animals882) (WebRef=8548, Unread, Priority=3)
→ The blob with a superpower: cut a flatworm in four pieces and watch it regenerate four-fold
- Aeon: Video - Vargsamtal: 01/11/2018 (WebRef=8585, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Would you choose to live wild and free as a wolf, or have a job with benefits, like a sled dog?
- Aeon: Video - The origin of quantum mechanics: 25/10/2018 (WebRef=8600, Unread, Priority=3)
→ The physics revolution that started with the flicker of a lightbulb
- Aeon: Video - 73 cows: 22/10/2018 (WebRef=8607, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Can you be a beef farmer if the animals are your friends?
- Aeon: Video - The forgotten (female) quantum pioneer, Grete Hermann: 19/10/2018 (WebRef=8612, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Splitting the truth: the philosopher that physics forgot
- Aeon: Video - Can apes really 'talk' to humans?: 15/10/2018 (WebRef=8621, Unread, Priority=3)
→ People have been trying to talk with apes for nearly a century. How far have we got?
- Aeon: Video - Transgenic spidergoats: 05/10/2018 (WebRef=8637, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Spidergoats to the rescue! How to make silk from milk with genetic engineering
- Aeon: Video - Our short-sighted inner fish: 28/09/2018 (WebRef=8650, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Why did our sea-dwelling ancestors leap to land? It might have been the view
- Aeon: Video - Restoration of mosaic of the Epiphany of Dionysus: 27/09/2018 (WebRef=8652, Unread, Priority=3)
→ How does a precious ancient Greek mosaic get from an excavation site to a museum?
- Aeon: Video - A day in Pompeii: 20/09/2018 (WebRef=8674, Unread, Priority=3)
→ From eruption to obliteration – the sights and sounds of 48 fateful hours in Pompeii
- Aeon: Video - Frames of Reference: 13/09/2018 (WebRef=8461, Unread, Priority=3)
→ This clever and stylish 1960 film is the most fun you’ll ever have at a physics lecture
- Aeon: Video - Better humans: 03/08/2018 (Braden Allenby & Conor Walsh) (WebRef=8778, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Human as a process: What awaits us in the coming age of bio-enhancement?
- Aeon: Video - You gotta believe: 30/07/2018883
- Aeon: Video - Bertrand Russell: Face to Face: 16/07/2018 (Bertrand Russell) (WebRef=8796, Unread, Priority=3)
→ A fanatic against fanaticism, and other pleasures of Bertrand Russell in his own words
- Aeon: Video - Personal truth: 12/07/2018 (WebRef=8823, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Sure, ‘Pizzagate’ is bunk, but does a conspiracy theorist lurk inside all of us?
- Aeon: Video - The restrained brain: 09/07/2018 (PID Note: Brain884) (WebRef=8452, Unread, Priority=3)
→ Why preparation, not willpower, is the