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Aeon Papers
(Work In Progress: output at 19/05/2022 15:51:10)
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. 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 recently decided to restrict “priority 1” items to a maximum of 10, though I’ve not stuck to the resolution.
- I note here that this page is getting too slow to load, so I will 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.
- 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 - Godel's Incompleteness Theorem: 16/05/20223
- Aeon: Video - The great silence: 11/05/20224
- Aeon: Video - Bacon and God's wrath: 10/05/20225
- Aeon: Video - What is movement: 03/05/20226
- Aeon: Video - The AI historian: 02/05/20227
- Aeon: Video - The spiritual exercises: 02/05/20228
- Aeon: Video - Stray in Kars: 28/04/20229
- Aeon: Video - Sister: 26/04/202210
- Aeon: Video - You've never been completely honest: 21/04/202211
- Aeon: Video - The great malaise: 18/04/202212
- Aeon: Video - Who decides what art means?: 14/04/202213
- Aeon: Video - Composite: 11/04/202214
- Aeon: Video - Abductees: 06/04/202215
- Aeon: Video - Tengri: 05/04/202216
- Aeon: Video - Phenomena: magnetism: 31/03/202217
- Aeon: Video - The Japanese sword as the soul of the samurai: 24/03/202218
- Aeon: Video - The first Tuesday in November: 22/03/202219
- Aeon: Video - A is for autism: 21/03/202220
- Aeon: Kang - The problem with ‘han’ 한 恨: 18/03/202221
- Aeon: Derbew - Blackness in antiquity: 17/03/202222
- Aeon: Video - How does a quantum computer work?: 14/03/202223
- Aeon: Blankinship - Tales of two jackals: 11/03/202224
- Aeon: Video - Virtual ancient Rome: walking from the Colosseum to the Forum: 10/03/202225
- Aeon: Video - The Black cop: a victim, a villain and a hero: 07/03/202226
- Aeon: Video - The infamous overpopulation bet: 03/03/202227
- Aeon: Nathan - Knowing your true age requires more than a swab and calendar: 02/03/202228
- Aeon: Doyle - Affirming transgender people’s identities is more than politeness: 01/03/202229
- Aeon: Video - The many disguises of Australian walking sticks: 28/02/202230
- Aeon: Video - The happiest guy in the world: 24/02/202231
- Aeon: Video - The Bombay highway code: 21/02/202232
- Aeon: Video - Bertrand's Paradox: 15/02/202233
- Aeon: Video - Jeff Tollaksen - quantum mechanics experiments: 10/02/202234
- Aeon: Tyldesley - Nefertiti’s bust: 08/02/202235
- Aeon: Video - The chimney swift: 07/02/202236
- Aeon: Falk - The philosopher’s zombie: 04/02/202237
- Aeon: Video - Forever: 03/02/202238
- Aeon: Video - The invention of trousers: 01/02/202239
- Aeon: Montas - Great books are still great: 21/01/202240
- Aeon: Barash - Be they friend or foe, animals share our blood and our planet: 19/01/202241
- Aeon: Khan-Harris - The pleasure in not understanding a language can be awesome: 19/01/202242
- Aeon: Video - Zen koans: 17/01/202243
- Aeon: Jones - Becoming a centaur: 14/01/202244
- Aeon: Video - Inka khipu: 13/01/202245
- Aeon: Video - Unsafe passage: 11/01/202246
- Aeon: Video - Powers of ten, updated: 04/01/202247
- Aeon: Video - How to ride a pterosaur: 23/12/202148
- Aeon: Video - Karl Friston: Embodied cognition: 16/12/202149
- Aeon: Video - In a lion: 14/12/202150
- Aeon: Video - Simulating star-destroying black holes: 13/12/202151
- Aeon: Video - The power of diverse thinking: 06/12/202152
- Aeon: Video - Vertigo AI: 29/11/202153
- Aeon: Video - Planktonium: 23/11/202154
- Aeon: Pigliucci - Musonius Rufus: Roman Stoic, and avant-garde feminist?: 17/11/202155
- Aeon: Shakespeare - We are all frail: 16/11/202156
- Aeon: Video - When Vikings lived in North America: 09/11/202157
- Aeon: Video - Bug Farm: 02/11/202158
- Aeon: Mallette - How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of risk: 02/11/202159
- Aeon: Video - Street angel: 28/10/202160
- Aeon: Video - The development of mindreading: 25/10/202161
- Aeon: Video - Five Stories: 13/10/202162
- Aeon: Video - The Rashomon effect: 11/10/202163
- Aeon: Video - Moths in slow motion: 07/10/202164
- Aeon: Video - The elephant's song: 04/10/202165
- Aeon: Video - Fifty per cent: 28/09/202166
- Aeon: Video - The impossible map: 27/09/202167
- Aeon: Fleming - A theory of my own mind: 23/09/202168
- Aeon: Gonzalez-Crussi - Shaggy and strong, or shorn and sharp? Hair’s evolving symbolism: 22/09/202169
- Aeon: Video - Alison Gopnik: Cognition, care and spirituality: 20/09/202170
- Aeon: Video - Serial parallels: 13/09/202171
- Aeon: Video - The Standard Model: 09/09/202172
- Aeon: Taylor - Jefferson’s university: 03/09/202173
- Aeon: Agren - An idea with bite: 02/09/202174
- Aeon: Video - Hisako Koyama, the woman who stared at the sun: 17/08/202175
- Aeon: Video - Hacking enlightenment: 16/08/202176
- Aeon: Video - When can you trust the statistics?: 12/08/202177
- Aeon: Video - Between strangers: 11/08/202178
- Aeon: Video - Kids game: 10/08/202179
- Aeon: Video - Kabuki: The classic theatre of Japan: 09/08/202180
- Aeon: Golob - Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid: 04/08/202181
- Aeon: Middleton - Poseidon’s wrath: 02/08/202182
- Aeon: Video - Cosmology in the dark: 29/07/202183
- Aeon: Video - The great wave by Hokusai: 27/07/202184
- Aeon: Video - Aerial sheep herding in Yokneam: 26/07/202185
- Aeon: Video - Plato's Atlantis: 19/07/202186
- Aeon: Video - Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions: 15/07/202187
- Aeon: Tillson - Imagine you could insert knowledge into your mind: should you?: 14/07/202188
- Aeon: Video - Nero: the man behind the myth: 08/07/202189
- Aeon: Video - Not the same river. Not the same man.: 07/07/202190
- Aeon: Video - Rotifiers: charmingly bizarre and often ignored: 06/07/202191
- Aeon: Reeves - Lies and honest mistakes: 05/07/202192
- Aeon: Video - How an infinite hotel ran out of room: 01/07/202193
- Aeon: Coffman - The Margaret Mead problem: 01/07/202194
- Aeon: Video - By the river: 30/06/202195
- Aeon: Video - Charting animal cognition: 28/06/202196
- Aeon: Reiff - How important is white fear?: 28/06/202197
- Aeon: Zadra - What dream characters reveal about the astonishing dreaming brain: 28/06/202198
- Aeon: Mackay - The whitewashing of Rome: 25/06/202199
- Aeon: Video - Organism: 22/06/2021100
- Aeon: Video - Out of mind: 21/06/2021101
- Aeon: Video - The Mozart effect: 17/06/2021102
- Aeon: Video - Sounds for Mazin: 16/06/2021103
- Aeon: Video - Thai country living: 15/06/2021104
- Aeon: Video - A brief history of the devil: 10/06/2021105
- Aeon: Video - Degrees of uncertaincy: 03/06/2021106
- Aeon: Video - The seeker: 02/06/2021107
- Aeon: Video - Hum chitra banate hai (We make images): 26/05/2021108
- Aeon: Video - The undying hydra: 25/05/2021109
- Aeon: Video - Lee Smolin: space and time: 23/05/2021110
- Aeon: Video - The lion man: 20/05/2021111
- Aeon: Video - Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak?: 10/05/2021112
- Aeon: Video - Phrenology: the weirdest pseudoscience of them all?: 06/05/2021113
- Aeon: Video - Samurai rules for peace and war: 04/05/2021114
- Aeon: Video - Colette: 03/05/2021115
- Aeon: Video - Light and microscopy: 29/04/2021116
- Aeon: Grubbs - If you think you’ve got a porn addiction, you probably haven’t: 28/04/2021117
- Aeon: Video - This is Bate Bola: 28/04/2021118
- Aeon: Video - The secret language of trees: 20/04/2021119
- Aeon: Dermendzhiyska - The misinformation virus: 16/04/2021120
- Aeon: Scheidel - The road from Rome: 15/04/2021121
- Aeon: Video - Should computers run the world?: 07/04/2021122
- Aeon: Challenger - The joy of being animal: 06/04/2021123
- Aeon: Ferreira - The cosmic chasm: 26/03/2021124
- Aeon: Video - Rooms: 25/03/2021125
- Aeon: Video - Via dolorosa: 24/03/2021126
- Aeon: Video - Michael Rakowitz: haunting the West: 23/03/2021127
- Aeon: Video - Unfold the maths of origami: 22/03/2021128
- Aeon: Jaekl - Am I my connectome?: 19/03/2021129
- Aeon: Video - The lost sound: 18/03/2021130
- Aeon: Herbert - A window into 18th-century Queer London, tender yet defiant: 17/03/2021 (Amanda E. Herbert) (WebRef=10489)
- Aeon: Video - The death of Julius Caesar: 15/03/2021131
- Aeon: Gallagher - How to learn a language (and stick at it): 10/03/2021132
- Aeon: Levy - Final thoughts: 08/03/2021133
- Aeon: Video - A brief history of melancholy: 04/03/2021134
- Aeon: Video - The Sutton Hoo helmet: 02/03/2021135
- Aeon: Godfrey-Smith - Philosophers and other animals: 25/02/2021136
- Aeon: Video - Sabine Hossenfelder: Searching for beauty in mathematics: 25/02/2021137
- Aeon: Video - A small antelope horn: 23/02/2021138
- Aeon: Video - How Big Tech betrayed us: 18/02/2021139
- Aeon: Video - Kachalka: 17/02/2021140
- Aeon: West - Pause. Reflect. Think: 11/02/2021141
- Aeon: Puchner - How a secret European language ‘made a rabbit’ and survived: 10/02/2021142
- Aeon: Sunar - I have no mind’s eye - let me try to describe it for you: 10/02/2021143
- Aeon: Video - Who decides how long a second is?: 08/02/2021144
- Aeon: Video - Nyctophobia: 02/02/2021145
- Aeon: Video - Quantum fluctuations: 01/02/2021146
- Aeon: Tasioulas - All in one: 29/01/2021147
- Aeon: Wright - How to be a genius: 26/01/2021148
- Aeon: Freamon - Gulf slave society: 22/01/2021149
- Aeon: Video - The wolf dividing Norway: 21/01/2021150
- Aeon: Frevert - The history of humiliation points to the future of human dignity: 20/01/2021151
- Aeon: Video - The evolution of cynicism: 19/01/2021152
- Aeon: Video - Kidnapper ants: 14/01/2021153
- Aeon: Sykes - Sheanderthal: 12/01/2021154
- Aeon: Video - Fukuzawa Yukichi in Europe: 05/01/2021155
- Aeon: Video - In dog years: 24/12/2020156
- Aeon: Romeo & Tewksbury - Plato in Sicily: 21/12/2020157
- Aeon: Video - My name is Anik: 14/12/2020158
- Aeon: Limburg - Am I disabled?: 10/12/2020159
- Aeon: Video - Why are we so attached to our things?: 07/12/2020160
- Aeon: Video - The sound of gravity: 03/12/2020161
- Aeon: Video - Daily life in Egypt: ancient and modern: 01/12/2020162
- Aeon: Video - Don't think twice: 26/11/2020163
- Aeon: Klein - The rise of the bystander as a complicit historical actor: 11/11/2020164
- Aeon: Muecke - What Aboriginal people know about the pathways of knowledge: 11/11/2020165
- Aeon: Video - The five-minute museum: 09/11/2020166
- Aeon: Video - Roger Penrose: Why did the universe begin?: 05/11/2020167
- Aeon: Video - Palenque: 04/11/2020168
- Aeon: Video - Visitors: 29/10/2020169
- Aeon: Simpson - When is it ethical to vote for ‘the lesser of two evils’?: 28/10/2020170
- Aeon: Video - De artificiali perspectiva, or anamorphosis: 27/10/2020171
- Aeon: Watts - Fiddling while Rome converts: 27/10/2020172
- Aeon: Video - The greatest Briton?: 22/10/2020173
- Aeon: Ogden - Being eaten: 08/10/2020174
- Aeon: Video - Newton's three-body problem: 29/09/2020175
- Aeon: Nadler - When to break a rule: 29/09/2020176
- Aeon: Hansen - Vikings in America: 22/09/2020177
- Aeon: Dahl - Young children use reason, not gut feelings, to decide moral issues: 16/09/2020178
- Aeon: Video - Is our attention for sale?: 15/09/2020179
- Aeon: Elliot - Origin story: 08/09/2020180
- Aeon: Hazrat - A history of punctuation: 03/09/2020181
- Aeon: Video - Mary's Room: 03/09/2020182
- Aeon: Flack & Mitchell - Uncertain times: 21/08/2020183
- Aeon: Dresser - How to not fear your death: 19/08/2020184
- Aeon: Video - The Fayum portraits: 17/08/2020185
- Aeon: Duckworth - Catastrophes and calms: 13/08/2020186
- Aeon: Copeland - DNA testing is easy. It can also turn your family upside down: 12/08/2020187
- Aeon: McMaster - What rude jibes about Caesar tell us about sex in ancient Rome: 12/08/2020188
- Aeon: Weidman - Do humans really have a killer instinct or is that just manly fancy?: 11/08/2020189
- Aeon: Video - Susan Greenfield on neuronal assemblies: 11/08/2020190
- Aeon: Townsend - How Aztecs told history: 10/08/2020191
- Aeon: Video - Plato's alegory of the cave: 10/08/2020192
- Aeon: Little & Backus - Confidence tricks: 07/08/2020193
- Aeon: Press - Mummies among us: 06/08/2020194
- Aeon: Video - Solos: 06/08/2020195
- Aeon: Edison - True musical virtuosos are minimalists who put roll before rock: 05/08/2020196
- Aeon: Video - The meaning of a monument: 04/08/2020197
- Aeon: Dingemanse - The space between our heads: 04/08/2020198
- Aeon: Video - Oppy: The life of a rover: 03/08/2020199
- Aeon: Stonebridge - The plague novel you need to read is by Bachmann, not Camus: 03/08/2020200
- Aeon: Mack - Big space: 31/07/2020201
- Aeon: Video - All inclusive: 30/07/2020202
- Aeon: Jarrett - How to read more books: 29/07/2020203
- Aeon: MacLeod - In an unstable economy, I found freedom and security in sex work: 29/07/2020204
- Aeon: Herz - Introverts are excluded unfairly in an extraverts’ world: 29/07/2020205
- Aeon: Fine - Sexual dinosaurs: 28/07/2020206
- Aeon: Video - Time-based currency by Robert Owen: 28/07/2020207
- Aeon: Video - In the wake: 27/07/2020208
- Aeon: Zucca - Much ado about uncertainty: how Shakespeare navigates doubt: 27/07/2020209
- Aeon: Cooperrider - Hand to mouth: 24/07/2020210
- Aeon: Ghosh - Counting China: 23/07/2020211
- Aeon: Temkin - How to interpret historical analogies: 22/07/2020212
- Aeon: Platts-Mills - On Matthew’s mind: 17/07/2020213
- Aeon: Owen - The inward gaze: 16/07/2020214
- Aeon: Davis - Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress: 14/07/2020215
- Aeon: Daut - The king of Haiti’s dream: 14/07/2020216
- Aeon: Davies - Here be black holes: 13/07/2020217
- Aeon: Kim - From vice to crime: 09/07/2020218
- Aeon: Video - Peter and Ben: 09/07/2020219
- Aeon: Hughes - How to choose a bottle of wine: 08/07/2020220
- Aeon: Summers - Why won’t the sin wash away? When thinking ethically goes awry: 08/07/2020221
- Aeon: Video - The paradox of the ravens: 06/07/2020222
- Aeon: Black - Unboxing mental health: 06/07/2020223
- Aeon: Woodruff - The face of the fish: 03/07/2020224
- Aeon: Kachru - Ashoka’s moral empire: 02/07/2020225
- Aeon: Video - How we build perception from the inside out: 30/06/2020226
- Aeon: Orent - Stealth infections: 30/06/2020227
- Aeon: Agostini & Thrope - This is not the end. Apocalyptic comfort from ancient Iran: 30/06/2020228
- Aeon: Video - Making music from brainwaves and heartbeats: 26/06/2020229
- Aeon: Skibba - Does dark matter exist?: 25/06/2020230
- Aeon: Frankish - Our greatest invention was the invention of invention itself: 24/06/2020231
- Aeon: Dresser - Peak ellipsis: 23/06/2020232
- Aeon: Video - The fist of modernity: 23/06/2020233
- Aeon: Vince - Ancient yet cosmopolitan: 18/06/2020234
- Aeon: Bowles - Learning Nahuatl, the flower song, and the poetics of life: 16/06/2020235
- Aeon: Video - The secret history of the Moon: 16/06/2020236
- Aeon: Sha - Neuroscience has much to learn from Hume’s philosophy of emotions: 15/06/2020237
- Aeon: Studebaker - The ungoverned globe: 15/06/2020238
- Aeon: Dyzenhaus - Lawyer for the strongman: 12/06/2020239
- Aeon: Melechi - Beware of lateral thinking: 11/06/2020240
- Aeon: Foulkes - Ever taken pleasure in another’s pain? That’s ‘everyday sadism’: 10/06/2020241
- Aeon: Apperly - Gentileschi. Let us not allow sexual violence to define the artist: 10/06/2020242
- Aeon: Happe - Autistic people shouldn’t have to use ‘camouflage’ to fit in: 09/06/2020243
- Aeon: Ellis - From chaos to free will: 09/06/2020244
- Aeon: Vinocour - Criminally insane: 08/06/2020245
- Aeon: Horn - The history of the incubator makes a sideshow of mothering: 03/06/2020246
- Aeon: Hui - In praise of aphorisms: 01/06/2020247
- Aeon: Williams - The fight for ‘Anglo-Saxon’: 29/05/2020248
- Aeon: Wilson - The trolley problem problem: 28/05/2020249
- Aeon: Rees - The good scientist: 26/05/2020250
- Aeon: Russell - Vice dressed as virtue: 22/05/2020251
- Aeon: Nuttall - On gibberish: 21/05/2020252
- Aeon: Liu - Tea and capitalism: 19/05/2020253
- Aeon: Leppin - As the Ancient Greeks knew, frankness is an essential virtue: 18/05/2020254
- Aeon: Eden - Cigarette! Exquisite fiend, ephemeral friend, how I miss you: 18/05/2020255
- Aeon: Frohlich - Frames of consciousness: 18/05/2020256
- Aeon: Stinson - Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past: 15/05/2020257
- Aeon: Stegenga - Gentle medicine could radically transform medical practice: 13/05/2020258
- Aeon: Rees - Are there laws of history?: 12/05/2020259
- Aeon: Video - Detachment, objectivity, imagination: a critique: 08/05/2020260
- Aeon: Ferracioli - For a child, being carefree is intrinsic to a well-lived life: 08/05/2020261
- Aeon: Manion - Female husbands: 07/05/2020262
- Aeon: Ward - Sooner or later we all face death. Will a sense of meaning help us?: 06/05/2020263
- Aeon: Baggott - How science fails: 05/05/2020264
- Aeon: Video - Leonard Susskind - Why do we search for symmetry?: 01/05/2020265
- Aeon: Ellis - Philosophy cannot resolve the question ‘How should we live?’: 01/05/2020266
- Aeon: Video - Three ways to smell cancer: 29/04/2020267
- Aeon: Martinho-Truswell - We need highly formal rituals in order to make life more democratic: 29/04/2020268
- Aeon: Camporesi - It didn’t have to be this way: 27/04/2020269
- Aeon: Lopez-Cantero - Your love story is a narrative that gets written in tandem: 27/04/2020270
- Aeon: Video - Do I see what you see?: 22/04/2020271
- Aeon: Schoenfield - Why do you believe what you do? Run some diagnostics on it: 22/04/2020272
- Aeon: Krakauer - At the limits of thought: 20/04/2020273
- Aeon: Schechter - What we can learn about respect and identity from ‘plurals’: 20/04/2020274
- Aeon: Video - Test subjects: 17/04/2020275
- Aeon: Broks - Unholy anorexia: 16/04/2020276
- Aeon: Jones & Paris - How dystopian narratives can incite real-world radicalism: 15/04/2020277
- Aeon: Heneghan - Is there a limit to optimism when it comes to climate change?: 13/04/2020278
- Aeon: Levy-Eichel - I was homeschooled for eight years: here’s what I recommend: 10/04/2020279
- Aeon: Video - Ball - Understanding quantum entanglement: 10/04/2020280
- Aeon: Contera - Engines of life: 09/04/2020281
- Aeon: Nguyen - Time alone (chosen or not) can be a chance to hit the reset button: 08/04/2020282
- Aeon: Wellmon - The scholar’s vocation: 07/04/2020283
- Aeon: Bond - We are wayfinders: 06/04/2020284
- Aeon: Gordin - Identifying Einstein: 02/04/2020285
- Aeon: Video - 9at38: 01/04/2020286
- Aeon: Isaacs - Chemobrain is real. Here’s what to expect after cancer treatment: 01/04/2020287
- Aeon: Barwich - It’s hard to fool a nose: 30/03/2020288
- Aeon: Wojtowicz - If all our actions are shaped by luck, are we still agents?: 25/03/2020289
- Aeon: Video - Soft awareness: 25/03/2020290
- Aeon: Harlitz-Kern - To see the antisemitism of medieval bestiaries, look for the owl: 24/03/2020291
- Aeon: Parks & Manzotti - You are the world: 23/03/2020292
- Aeon: Video - Do you have imposter syndrome: 20/03/2020293
- Aeon: Ho - No patient is an island: 19/03/2020294
- Aeon: Dubal - Against humanity: 18/03/2020295
- Aeon: Mishra - Talent, you’re born with. Creativity, you can grow yourself: 18/03/2020296
- Aeon: Video - The solar do-nothing machine: 18/03/2020297
- Aeon: Rolston - Don’t take life so seriously: Montaigne’s lessons on the inner life: 17/03/2020298
- Imperial - Impact of NPIs to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand: 17/03/2020299
- Aeon: David - Patient, know thyself: how insight helps to treat psychosis: 16/03/2020300
- Aeon: Video - The researcher's article: 13/03/2020301
- Aeon: Hanna - Whose limb is it anyway? On the ethics of body-part disposal: 13/03/2020302
- Aeon: Hochman - Is ‘race’ modern?: 12/03/2020303
- Aeon: Mauch - Slow hope: 11/03/2020304
- Aeon: Cottingham - What is the soul if not a better version of ourselves?: 11/03/2020305
- Aeon: Jaarsma - Choose your own birth: 10/03/2020306
- Aeon: Gutmann - Testosterone is widely, and sometimes wildly, misunderstood: 10/03/2020307
- Aeon: Wu - Hypocognition is a censorship tool that mutes what we can feel: 09/03/2020308
- Aeon: Vandergheynst & Vonèche Cardia - Why lifelong learning is the international passport to success: 06/03/2020309
- Aeon: Morus - Supermensch: 05/03/2020310
- Aeon: Frances - The lure of ‘cool’ brain research is stifling psychotherapy: 04/03/2020311
- Aeon: Dashan - It is not you, but existence itself, that is fundamentally unsound: 02/03/2020312
- Aeon: Andrews & Monso - Rats are us: 02/03/2020313
- Aeon: Video - What is déjà vu?: 02/03/2020314
- Aeon: Video - Walk: 28/02/2020315
- Aeon: Video - Musical traumas: 27/02/2020316
- Aeon: Gertz - Nihilism: 27/02/2020317
- Aeon: Wayland-Smith - This ragged claw: 26/02/2020318
- Aeon: Robinson - Would you rather have a fish or know how to fish?: 26/02/2020319
- Aeon: Asma - Ancient animistic beliefs live on in our intimacy with tech: 25/02/2020320
- Aeon: Video - Chunyun: 25/02/2020321
- Aeon: Longworth - The ethics of speech acts: 25/02/2020322
- Aeon: Heneghan - A place of silence: 24/02/2020323
- Aeon: Video - A Jew walks into a bar (Defunct): 21/02/2020324
- Aeon: Tracy - Find something morally sickening? Take a ginger pill: 21/02/2020325
- Aeon: Evans - Perennial philosophy: 19/02/2020326
- Aeon: Green - A psychiatric diagnosis can be more than an unkind ‘label’: 18/02/2020327
- Aeon: Greenberg - This mortal coil: 12/02/2020328
- Aeon: Video - The hairy Nobel: 10/02/2020329
- Aeon: Kaufman - Neither person nor cadaver: 06/02/2020330
- Aeon: Video - The viral origins of the placenta: 04/02/2020331
- Aeon: Madison - Investigating Homo floresiensis and the myth of the ebu gogo: 03/02/2020332
- Aeon: Klein - The politics of logic: 03/02/2020333
- Aeon: Video - Norman, norman: 31/01/2020334
- Aeon: Video - The mushroom hunters: 30/01/2020335
- Aeon: Maskivker - Given how little effect you can have, is it rational to vote?: 29/01/2020336
- Aeon: Trivellato - The rumour about the Jews: 28/01/2020337
- Aeon: Thomas - Before, now, and next: 23/01/2020338
- Aeon: Green - Africa, in its fullness: 16/01/2020339
- Aeon: Paik - Robogamis are the real heirs of terminators and transformers: 10/01/2020340
- Aeon: Video - Wolf pack: 09/01/2020341
- Aeon: Lenz - The adversarial culture in philosophy does not serve the truth: 08/01/2020342
- Aeon: Sommer - Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences: 06/01/2020343
- Aeon: Video - Spinoza's 'Ethics' - what do you mean by 'God': 20/12/2019344
- Aeon: Isaac - Is artificial-womb technology a tool for women’s liberation?: 18/12/2019345
- Aeon: Video - Polyphonic Mozart: 17/12/2019346
- Aeon: Pigliucci - Consciousness is real: 16/12/2019347
- Aeon: Gross - How pottering about in the garden creates a time warp: 13/12/2019348
- Aeon: Lane - Rules or citizens?: 12/12/2019349
- Aeon: Lyons - Philosopher of the human: 10/12/2019350
- Aeon: Video - Mary Beard: women and power: 09/12/2019351
- Aeon: Egan - Is there anything especially expert about being a philosopher?: 06/12/2019352
- Aeon: Video - Julian Barbour: what is time?: 06/12/2019353
- Aeon: Video - The driver is red: 05/12/2019354
- Aeon: Labaree - Pluck versus luck: 04/12/2019355
- Aeon: Pogosyan - Why learning a new language is like an illicit love affair: 04/12/2019356
- Aeon: Sayare - Consider the axolotl: our great hope of regeneration?: 27/11/2019357
- Aeon: Hekman - Canine exceptionalism: 25/11/2019358
- Aeon: Video - Finkel - Cuneiform writing with Irving Finkel: 22/11/2019359
- Aeon: Jarrett - Trigger warnings don’t help people cope with distressing material: 22/11/2019360
- Aeon: McLeish - Science + religion: 21/11/2019361
- Aeon: Pyne - The planet is burning: 20/11/2019362
- Aeon: Stone - Thinking about one’s birth is as uncanny as thinking of death: 20/11/2019363
- Aeon: Matthews - What is to be done about the problem of creepy men?: 15/11/2019364
- Aeon: Video - Walter Lippmann - public opinion and propaganda: 14/11/2019365
- Aeon: Hall - Classics for the people: 13/11/2019366
- Aeon: Irish - The self in dementia is not lost, and can be reached with care: 13/11/2019367
- Aeon: Video - I came from the unknown to sing: 11/11/2019368
- Aeon: Degroot - Little Ice Age lessons: 11/11/2019369
- Aeon: Video - Do you think science can understand everything?: 08/11/2019370
- Aeon: Vernon - Divine transports: 07/11/2019371
- Aeon: Vallgarda - Keeping secrets: 06/11/2019372
- Aeon: Video - Donald Hoffman - The Case Against Reality: 05/11/2019373
- Aeon: Baillie - We all know that we will die, so why do we struggle to believe it?: 04/11/2019374
- Aeon: Demuth - Turn and live with animals: 29/10/2019375
- Aeon: Ward - Mistaken: 28/10/2019376
- Aeon: Video - Raymond Tallis - What is Extended Mind: 25/10/2019377
- Aeon: Sebens - What’s everything made of?: 24/10/2019378
- Aeon: Morell - What do mirror tests test?: 23/10/2019379
- Aeon: Video - Turns out that, even when Einstein was wrong, he was kind of right: 22/10/2019380
- Aeon: McAndrew - Houses of horror: 21/10/2019381
- Aeon: Video - Neurosymphony: 18/10/2019382
- Aeon: Burton - To make laziness work for you, put some effort into it: 11/10/2019383
- Aeon: Van der Horst - The Bible’s first critic: 09/10/2019384
- Aeon: Baggott - But is it science?: 07/10/2019385
- Aeon: Stark - My autism journey: how I learned to stop trying to fit in: 02/10/2019386
- Aeon: Frankish - The consciousness illusion: 26/09/2019387
- Aeon: Video - The Infamous Windmill Problem: 20/09/2019388
- Aeon: Spiegelhalter - Citizens need to know numbers: 16/09/2019389
- Aeon: Pariseau - How a scientific attempt to demystify Buddhist meditation yielded astounding results: 16/09/2019390
- Aeon: McLeish - Science is deeply imaginative: 13/09/2019391
- Aeon: Eagleman - Why time seems to fly as you get older: 13/09/2019392
- Aeon: Costandi - Against neurodiversity: 12/09/2019393
- Aeon: Mynott - Birds are ‘winged words’: 10/09/2019394
- Aeon: Video - Crannog: 09/09/2019395
- Aeon: Stern - The way words mean: 03/09/2019396
- Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality: 19/08/2019397
- Aeon: Video - ‘You wanna get rid of me?’ When the time comes to move mom into assisted living: 18/07/2019398
- Aeon: Victoria - Zen terror: 10/07/2019399
- Aeon: Pigliucci - Richard Feynman was wrong about beauty and truth in science: 28/06/2019400
- Aeon: Video - Hoplites! Greeks at war: 23/05/2019401
- Aeon: Video - The Vinland Mystery: 06/05/2019402
- Aeon: Pettinen - Will we ever know the difference between a wolf and a dog?: 29/04/2019403
- Aeon: Video - The beauty of gefilte fish: 19/04/2019404
- Aeon: Video - Devenir: 15/04/2019405
- Aeon: Video - How ISPs violate the laws of mathematics: 18/03/2019406
- Aeon: Pitock - Here’s to naps and snoozes: 12/03/2019407
- Aeon: Alter - How translation obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible: 27/02/2019408
- Aeon: Isbell - How seeing snakes in the grass helped primates to evolve: 05/02/2019409
- Aeon: Svoboda - The broad, ragged cut: 03/12/2018410
- Aeon: Mitchell - Wired that way: genes do shape behaviours but it’s complicated: 30/11/2018411
- Aeon: Chittka & Wilson - Bee-brained: 27/11/2018412
- Aeon: Baggott - What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’: 21/11/2018413
- Aeon: Video - Mobilize: 14/09/2018414
- Aeon: Baggini - Hume the humane: 15/08/2018415
- Aeon: Law - Do you see a duck or a rabbit: just what is aspect perception?: 31/07/2018416
- Aeon: Aronson & Duportail - The quantified heart: 12/07/2018417
- Aeon: Purcell - Life on the slippery Earth: 03/07/2018418
- Aeon: Callcut - What are we?: 11/06/2018419
- Aeon: Hall - Why read Aristotle today?: 29/05/2018420
- Aeon: Rachlin - Teleological behaviourism or what it means to imagine a lion: 25/05/2018421
- Aeon: Pierre - Die like a dog: 15/05/2018422
- Aeon: Whitmarsh - Black Achilles: 09/05/2018423
- Aeon: Kasmirli - What we say vs what we mean: what is conversational implicature?: 20/04/2018424
- Aeon: Pessoa - Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel: 13/04/2018425
- Aeon: Smithsimon - How to see race: 26/03/2018426
- Aeon: Temkin - What’s the best option?: 13/03/2018427
- Aeon: Robinson - Thus spake Albert: 12/03/2018428
- Aeon: Han - The copy is the original: 08/03/2018429
- Aeon: Olberding - The outsider: 06/03/2018430
- Aeon: Russell - Philosophical intuition: just what is ‘a priori’ justification?: 02/03/2018431
- Aeon: Rees - Animal agents: 26/02/2018432
- Aeon: Video - Why dogs have floppy ears: 23/02/2018433
- Aeon: Bier - The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory: 14/02/2018434
- Aeon: Video - The ladybug love-in: 13/02/2018435
- Aeon: Video - All what is somehow useful: 12/01/2018436
- Aeon: de Zavala - Why collective narcissists are so politically volatile: 12/01/2018437
- Aeon: Rowland - We are multitudes: 11/01/2018438
- Aeon: Evans - The autism paradox: 08/01/2018439
- Aeon: Ruggles - The minds of plants: 12/12/2017440
- Aeon: Video - Are university admissions biased?: 08/12/2017441
- Aeon: Video - Confucian ancestor worship: 12/10/2017442
- Aeon: Video - Lan Yan: 08/09/2017443
- Aeon: Video - Birth of a bee: 31/07/2017444
- Aeon: Video - Nuttag - Homeland: 27/07/2017445
- Aeon: Video - George Saunders: on story: 25/07/2017446
- Aeon: Smith - For centuries European aristocrats proudly claimed foreign ancestry: 05/06/2017447
- Aeon: Video - People in order: age: 28/04/2017448
- Aeon: Video - Animated life: Pangea, Wegener and the continental drift: 24/04/2017449
- Aeon: Aamodt - On shared false memories: 15/02/2017450
- Aeon: Lemonick - Living in the now: 13/02/2017451
- Aeon: Video - The 'evil god challenge': 07/02/2017452
- Aeon: Colombo - Why children ask ‘Why?’ and what makes a good explanation: 01/02/2017453
- Aeon: Video - Sartre vs Camus: 27/01/2017454
- Aeon: Video - Seeing the invisible: van Leeuwenhoek's first glimpses of the microbial world: 23/01/2017455
- Aeon: Okoro - This is your morning: 19/01/2017456
- Aeon: Video - Territory: 10/01/2017457
- Aeon: Delistraty - Drugs du jour: 04/01/2017458
- Aeon: Video - Teaching Philosophy to Children: 15/12/2016459
- Aeon: Martinho-Truswell - The minds of other animals: 08/12/2016460
- Aeon: Video - Smith - Aristotle was wrong and so are we: there are far more than five senses: 01/11/2016461
- Aeon: Taylor - The examined life: 06/10/2016462
- Aeon: Brennan - The right to vote should be restricted to those with knowledge: 29/09/2016463
- Aeon: Video - Further - Seth Shostak: 23/09/2016464
- Aeon: Young & Priest - It is and it isn’t: 22/09/2016465
- Aeon: Video - Hopper's Nighthawks: look through the window: 13/09/2016466
- Aeon: Video - Slingshots of the oceanic: 12/09/2016467
- Aeon: Video - Powers of ten: 19/08/2016468
- Aeon: Potts - Charisma is a mysterious and dangerous gift: 03/08/2016469
- Aeon: Devji - Against Muslim unity: 12/07/2016470
- Aeon: Video - The ray-cat solution: 11/07/2016471
- Aeon: Video - Onbashira Matsuri, Japan: 24/06/2016472
- Aeon: Stallard - The outsiders: 01/06/2016473
- Aeon: Root-Gutteridge - The songs of the wolves: 25/05/2016474
- Aeon: Bari - What do clothes say?: 19/05/2016475
- Aeon: Video - Letting you go: 16/05/2016476
- Aeon: Tesfaye - What amnesiacs tell us about memory: Q&A with Brenda Milner: 16/05/2016477
- Aeon: Video - The story of zero: getting something from nothing: 06/05/2016478
- Aeon: McGowan - Silicon phoenix: 02/05/2016479
- Aeon: Video - The need for a new bioethics: 02/05/2016480
- Aeon: Ojiaku - Is everybody a racist?: 21/03/2016481
- Aeon: George - How looting in Iraq unearthed the treasures of Gilgamesh: 05/02/2016482
- Aeon: Law - Belief in supernatural beings is totally natural – and false: 15/12/2015483
- Aeon: Barash - Paradigms lost: 27/10/2015484
- Aeon: Video - The Feynman Series - Beauty: 23/10/2015485
- Aeon: Video - What really happens when we talk: 12/10/2015486
- Aeon: Video - Dabbawalla: 01/10/2015487
- Aeon: Video - The Big Bang: 09/09/2015488
- Aeon: Malchik - The end of walking: 20/08/2015489
- Aeon: Video - Kempelen's chess-playing automaton: 03/08/2015490
- Aeon: Frisch - Why things happen: 23/06/2015491
- Aeon: Video - The truffle hunters: 02/06/2015492
- Aeon: Video - The death of Socrates: 12/05/2015493
- Aeon: Video - Daniel Levitin on information overload: 07/04/2015494
- Aeon: Video - Epigenome - the symphony in your cells: 24/03/2015495
- Aeon: Video - The odd tale of the clever octopus: 20/03/2015496
- Aeon: Flora - How luck works: 06/03/2015497
- Aeon: Video - The animal that wouldn't die: 16/01/2015498
- Aeon: Video - The German who came to tea: 23/12/2014499
- Aeon: Video - Creo: 04/12/2014500
- Aeon: Evans - Real talk: 04/12/2014501
- Aeon: Hanlon - The golden quarter: 03/12/2014502
- Aeon: Video - X-Ray Man: 14/11/2014503
- Aeon: Smith - The essence of evil: 24/10/2014504
- Aeon: Video - My favorite picture of you: 08/10/2014505
- Aeon: Talbot - The good death: 25/09/2014506
- Aeon: Video - Internet archive: 28/08/2014507
- Aeon: Graziano - The first smile: 13/08/2014508
- Aeon: Video - Danielle: 16/07/2014509
- Aeon: Video - Why do I study physics?: 02/05/2014510
- Aeon: Video - Devil in the room: 04/04/2014511
- Aeon: Francis - Is this life real?: 21/01/2014512
- Aeon: Flyn - Last supper: 24/12/2013513
- Aeon: Keim - I, cockroach: 19/11/2013514
- Aeon: Gregg - Keep smiling: 05/11/2013515
- Aeon: Gray - The play deficit: 18/09/2013516
- Aeon: Rowlands - A right to believe?: 20/05/2013517
- Aeon: Kohn - The Neanderthal mind: 15/05/2013518
- Aeon: Gamble - The end of sleep?: 10/04/2013519
- Aeon: Blum - The white man Jesus: 08/04/2013520
- Aeon: Vernon - What is love?: 13/02/2013521
- Aeon: Davis - Trickster and tricked: 18/01/2013522
- Aeon: Kohn - Us and them: 10/01/2013523
- Aeon: Vedral - What life wants: 27/11/2012524
- Aeon: Hanlon - World next door: 06/11/2012525
Items Not Yet Read
- Priority: 1
- Aeon: Andersen - Quantum Wittgenstein: 12/05/2022 (Timothy Andersen) (PID Note: Quantum Mechanics526) (WebRef=11658)
→ Metaphysical debates in quantum physics don’t get at ‘truth’ – they’re nothing but a form of ritual, activity and culture
- Aeon: Baggini - How to think about free will: 11/05/2022 (Julian Baggini) (PID Note: Free Will527) (WebRef=11645)
→ You can’t escape cause and effect, but there is a way of viewing human agency that is motivating, plausible and humane
- Aeon: Sebo - Against human exceptionalism: 05/05/2022 (Jeff Sebo) (WebRef=11635)
→ In a tight spot, you’d probably intuit that a human life outweighs an animal’s. There are good arguments why that’s wrong
- Aeon: Babcock - The split-body problem: 28/04/2022 (Gunnar O. Babcock) (PID Note: Fission528) (WebRef=11621)
→ Why we need to stop thinking about parents, offspring and sex when we try to understand how life reproduces itself
- Aeon: van der Lugt - Look on the dark side: 26/04/2022 (Mara van der Lugt) (WebRef=11614)
→ We must keep the flame of pessimism burning: it is a virtue for our deeply troubled times, when crude optimism is a vice
- Aeon: Veale - When will humorous AIs press our buttons with their jokes?: 25/04/2022 (Tont Veale) (PID Note: Computers529) (WebRef=11616)
- Aeon: Greve - AI’s first philosopher: 21/04/2022530
- Aeon: Kraus - Over-optimism about racial justice is widespread and harmful: 20/04/2022 (Michael Kraus) (PID Note: Race531) (WebRef=11593)
- Aeon: Sartwell - Truth is real: 14/04/2022 (Crispin Sartwell) (WebRef=11591)
→ For a century, the idea of truth has been deflated, becoming terrain from which philosophers fled. They must return – urgently
- Aeon: McNally - Mental disorders aren’t diseases, they’re networks of symptoms: 13/04/2022 (Richard J. McNally) (PID Note: Psychopathology532) (WebRef=11590)
- Aeon: Schwitzgebel - Let everyone sparkle: psychotechnology in the year 2067: 12/04/2022 (Eric Schwitzgebel) (PID Note: Transhumanism533) (WebRef=11583)
- Aeon: Smyth - Nature does not care: 12/04/2022 (Richard Smyth) (PID Note: Animals534) (WebRef=11584)
→ Too many nature writers descend into poetic self-absorption instead of the sharp-eyed realism the natural world deserves
- Aeon: Loued-Khenissi - Allow error into your life and experience the joy of surprise: 11/04/2022 (Leyla Loued-Khenissi) (WebRef=11586)
- Aeon: Gallix - Nil by page: 07/04/2022 (Andrew Gallix) (WebRef=11579)
→ When a writer stares down a blank page, the whole of literature stares back. Why, then, leave the empty page as it is?
- Aeon: Sunar - A musician with sensory overload shows there are ways to adapt: 06/04/2022 (Neesa Sunar) (PID Note: Psychopathology535) (WebRef=11568)
- Aeon: Robson - Physical fatigue is in the brain as much as in the body: 06/04/2022 (David Robson) (WebRef=11578)
- Aeon: Berwald - The web of life: 05/04/2022 (Juli Berwald) (PID Note: Evolution536) (WebRef=11572)
→ Classic evolutionary theory holds that species separate over time. But it’s fuzzier than that – now we know they also merge
- Aeon: Quillien - Is virtue signalling a vice?: 04/04/2022 (Tadeg Quillien) (WebRef=11574)
→ Proclaiming one’s own goodness is deeply annoying. Yet signalling theory explains why it’s a peculiarly powerful manoeuvre
- Aeon: Willingham - Help! Brain overload: 01/04/2022 (Emily Willingham) (WebRef=11557)
→ As tasks mount up, our brain’s ability to juggle goes down. Neuroergonomic tactics can relieve the cognitive burden
- Aeon: Chayes - The Midas Disease: 31/03/2022 (Sarah Chayes) (WebRef=11560)
→ Corruption is a truly global crisis and the wealth addiction that feeds it is hiding in plain sight
- Aeon: Tampio - Scepticism as a way of life: 25/03/2022 (Nicholas Tampio) (WebRef=11538)
→ The desire for certainty is often foolish and sometimes dangerous. Scepticism undermines it, both in oneself and in others
- Aeon: Mills - How to start making music: 23/03/2022 (Gayla M. Mills) (WebRef=11530)
→ It’s never too late to play an instrument or learn to sing. Take the leap from listener to maker in the way that suits you
- Aeon: White - Poor sleep: 22/03/2022 (Jonathan White) (PID Note: Psychopathology537) (WebRef=11533)
→ 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: Religion538) (WebRef=11534)
→ How do ancient stories of talking elephants and singing birds encourage a life of truth, nonviolence and compassion?
- Aeon: Hobbs - How to think like a phenomenologist: 16/03/2022 (D.J. Hobbs) (WebRef=11511)
→ Doing Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological reduction will transform your view of the world and your own consciousness
- Aeon: Ribeiro - Ancestral dreams: 15/03/2022 (Sidarta Ribeiro) (PID Note: Sleep539) (WebRef=11514)
→ We’re not the only beings that dream. What visions might sleep bring to a cell, an insect, a mollusk, an ape?
- Aeon: Mallette - The allure of cosmopolitan languages to courtiers and pop fans: 15/03/2022 (Karla Mallette) (WebRef=11513)
- Aeon: Matthes - Love the art, disgusted by the artist? Maybe philosophy can help: 14/03/2022 (Erich Hatala Matthes) (WebRef=11516)
- Aeon: Lange - What is a law of nature?: 10/03/2022 (Marc Lange) (WebRef=11492)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Guevarra & Leibowitz - Why placebo pills work even when you know they’re a placebo: 09/03/2022 (Darwin A. Guevarra & Kari A. Leibowitz) (WebRef=11494)
- Aeon: Levin & Yuste - Modular cognition: 08/03/2022 (Michael Levin & Rafael Yuste) (WebRef=11487)
→ Powerful tricks from computer science and cybernetics show how evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up
- Aeon: Cleary - Simone de Beauvoir recommends we fight for ourselves as we age: 08/03/2022 (Skye C. Cleary) (WebRef=11486)
- Aeon: Kirloskar-Steinbach & Kalmanson - Views from everywhere: 07/03/2022 (Mokica Kirloskar-Steinbach & Leah Kalmanson) (WebRef=11489)
→ Academic philosophy can indeed make sense of our interdependent world. But only if it transforms by becoming truly diverse
- Aeon: Francione - We must not own animals: 01/03/2022 (Gary Francione) (PID Note: Animal Rights540) (WebRef=11476)
→ We will never truly advance our ethical relationship with other animals until we stop treating them as chattels for use
- Aeon: Beil & Tacata - What TikTok videos have in common with Victorian parlour games: 28/02/2022 (Kim Beil & Ryan Takata) (WebRef=11478)
- Aeon: Kringelbach & Deco - The turbulent brain: 25/02/2022 (Morten L. Kringelbach & Gustavo Deco) (PID Note: Brain541) (WebRef=11463)
→ Energy flow between brain and environment drives the non-equilibrium that sustains life. Could turbulence help us thrive?
- Aeon: Kalokerinos - How to support a struggling friend: 23/02/2022 (Elise Kalokerinos) (WebRef=11456)
→ Sometimes it’s hard to know what to say or do. Use these five strategies for providing effective emotional support
- Aeon: Hennessey - I saw my baby as a river flowing through me, and gave birth: 23/02/2022 (Anna Hennessey) (PID Note: Pregnancy542) (WebRef=11455)
- Aeon: West - Inside ambiguity: 22/02/2022 (Andy West) (WebRef=11459)
→ We are suspended between the inescapable facts of our lives and what we do to contest them, nowhere more than in prison
- Aeon: Rajan - High crimes and cabals: 18/02/2022 (Sudhir Chella Rajan) (WebRef=11447)
→ The official definition of corruption – the abuse of public office for private gain – does little to capture the reality
- Aeon: Yonkaporta, Etc - Blackfella boxes: 17/02/2022 (Tyson Yonkaporta, Etc) (PID Note: Intelligence543) (WebRef=11449)
→ 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: Psychopathology544) (WebRef=11448)
- Aeon: Frazier - Ancient Indian texts reveal the liberating power of metaphysics: 15/02/2022 (Jessica Frazier) (WebRef=11443)
- Aeon: Yamashiro & Roediger - The collective memory bias that flatters our homelands: 14/02/2022 (Jeremy K. Yamashiro & Henry L. Roediger) (WebRef=11445)
- Aeon: Clarke - For the Stoic Musonius Rufus, manual work is philosophy too: 09/02/2022 (Lee Clarke) (WebRef=11421)
- Aeon: Williams - The dropout: a history: 03/02/2022 (Charlie Williams) (PID Note: Narrative Identity545) (WebRef=11410)
→ The dropout was not just a hippy-trippy hedonist but a paranoid soul, who feared brainwashing and societal control
- Aeon: Vallortigara - Babies and chicks help solve one of psychology’s oldest puzzles: 02/02/2022 (Giorgio Vallortigara) (PID Note: Psychology546) (WebRef=11409)
- Aeon: Ramm - To experience Zen-like awakening, try going the headless way: 02/02/2022 (Brentyn J. Ramm) (PID Note: Buddhism547) (WebRef=11399)
- Aeon: Orrell - A softer economics: 01/02/2022 (David Orrell) (PID Note: Quantum Mechanics548) (WebRef=11403)
→ Financial markets are entangled and uncertain. When will economists let go of physics envy to embrace the quantum revolution?
- Aeon: Cretch - I chose to go flat after breast cancer surgery. I have no regrets: 31/01/2022 (Sarah Cretch) (PID Note: Narrative Identity549) (WebRef=11405)
- Aeon: Brouwer - Pivotal mental states: 28/01/2022 (Ari Brouwer) (PID Note: Religion550) (WebRef=11380)
→ Spiritual highs and mental breakdowns are both products of the same evolved brain system granting us the power to transform
- Aeon: Lehnen - Tattoos and trousers: 27/01/2022 (Christine Lehnen) (WebRef=11382)
→ Let your imagination take flight to the hunting, riding, adventurous lives of Scythia’s warrior women, the real Amazons
- Aeon: Brooks - The sex tech to come could offer more than ‘the real thing’: 26/01/2022 (Rob Brooks) (PID Note: Transhumanism551) (WebRef=11384)
→ The sex tech to come could offer more than ‘the real thing’
- Aeon: Anderson - Why it feels right to feel guilty about accidental mishaps: 26/01/2022 (Rajen Alexander Anderson) (PID Note: Forensic Property552) (WebRef=11381)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Smith - Those born later: 25/01/2022 (Helmut Walser Smith) (WebRef=11387)
→ In 1985 West Germany’s president gave an unflinching speech. It helped a new generation to face the Nazi past honestly
- Aeon: Zangwill - Why you should eat meat: 24/01/2022553
- Aeon: Ziglioli - What public philosophy is, and why we need it more than ever: 18/01/2022 (Lucia Ziglioli) (WebRef=11373)
- Aeon: Birgin - The worldly turn: 13/01/2022 (Tom Birgin) (WebRef=11354)
→ After generations of ‘blackboard economics’, Berkeley and MIT are leading a return to economics that studies the real world
- Aeon: Weber - This paradoxical life: 11/01/2022 (Zach Weber) (WebRef=11360)
→ 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)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Beil - In pursuit of the hole: 07/01/2022 (Kim Beil) (PID Note: Holes & Smiles554) (WebRef=11345)
→ 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: Psychopathology555) (WebRef=11347)
- Aeon: Ryan - Why the first Buddhas in art wore finely folded Greek tunics: 05/01/2022 (Garratt Ryan) (PID Note: Buddhism556) (WebRef=11341)
- Aeon: Lawson - How to connect with your grandchildren: 22/12/2021 (Jill Lawson) (WebRef=11332)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Kinsella - Trolls be gone: 20/12/2021 (Stephen Kinsella) (WebRef=11338)
→ 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)
→ 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 Beings557) (WebRef=11305)
- Aeon: Tobin - The art of the plot twist: 14/12/2021 (Vera Tobin) (PID Note: Fiction558) (WebRef=11306)
→ 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 Property559) (WebRef=11308)
- Aeon: Lawler - Unearthing David’s city: 10/12/2021 (Andrew Lawler) (WebRef=11292)
→ Archaeologist Eilat Mazar dug with a spade in one hand and a Bible in the other. Should her theories be taken seriously?
- Aeon: Dunn - Idealising the predator: 09/12/2021 (Lily Dunn) (WebRef=11295)
→ How did certain French intellectuals get away with preying upon young girls, shamelessly, in public and over decades?
- Aeon: Sesterka & Bulluss - How to be a good friend to an Autistic person: 08/12/2021 (Abby Sesterka & Erin Bulluss) (PID Note: Psychopathology560) (WebRef=11297)
→ 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 Thought561) (WebRef=11294)
- Aeon: de Ruiter - Why we should rethink our moral intuitions about deepfakes: 08/12/2021 (Adrienne de Ruiter) (WebRef=11296)
- Aeon: Irvine & Smith - Songs of conquest: 07/12/2021 (Thomas Irvine & Christopher J. Smith) (WebRef=11286)
→ 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: Self562) (WebRef=11287)
- Aeon: Baggott - Calculate but don’t shut up: 06/12/2021 (Jim Baggott) (PID Note: Quantum Mechanics563) (WebRef=11288)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Haber - Either/or questions are part of psychotherapy’s language games: 30/11/2021 (Darren Haber) (WebRef=11281)
- Aeon: Gutmann - Are men animals?: 29/11/2021 (Matthias Gutmann) (WebRef=11258)
→ 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 Property564) (WebRef=11257)
- Aeon: Karmon - Being in a building: 26/11/2021 (David Karmon) (WebRef=11259)
→ 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)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Laciny - Why neurodiversity and entomology so often go together: 24/11/2021 (Alice Laciny) (WebRef=11267)
- Aeon: Hassan & Poole - Childhood shyness can be advantageous – don’t pathologise it: 23/11/2021 (Raha Hassan & Kristie Poole) (WebRef=11265)
- Aeon: Ritts & Rosenbaum - The humane asylum: 23/11/2021 (Madeleine Ritts & Daniel Rosenbaum) (WebRef=11264)
→ 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: Brain565) (WebRef=11263)
- Aeon: Jack - George Sand’s boots: 22/11/2021 (Belinda Jack) (WebRef=11262)
→ How the rebellious novelist left behind her provincial self to learn about life, charging around Paris dressed as a man
- Aeon: Horowitz, Stickgold & Zadra - Inside your dreamscape: 19/11/2021 (Adam Haar Horowitz, Robert Stickgold & Antonio Zadra) (PID Note: Sleep566) (WebRef=11238)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ 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: Transhumanism567) (WebRef=11192)
→ 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: Body568) (WebRef=11195)
→ 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)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Whiteley & Birch - Depression is more than low mood – it’s a change of consciousness: 08/11/2021 (Cecily Whiteley & Jonathan Birch) (PID Note: Psychopathology569) (WebRef=11189)
→ 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)
→ 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: Psychopathology570) (WebRef=11152)
→ 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)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Pierce - The posthuman dog: 01/11/2021 (Jessica Pierce) (WebRef=11158)
→ If humans were to disappear from the face of the Earth, what might dogs become? And would they be better off without us?
- Aeon: Ball - Homo imaginatus: 29/10/2021 (Philip Ball) (WebRef=11146)
→ Imagination isn’t just a spillover from our problem-solving prowess. It might be the core of what human brains evolved to do
- Aeon: Weststeijn - Heritage at sea: 28/10/2021 (Thijs Weststeijn) (WebRef=11149)
→ Must we simply accept the loss of beloved buildings and cities to the floods and rising seas of the climate crisis?
- Aeon: Tremblay - Philosophy is like athletics – theory must be put into practice: 25/10/2021 (Michael Tremblay) (WebRef=11143)
- Aeon: Powell - The search for alien tech: 25/10/2021 (Corey S. Powell) (WebRef=11144)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Torres - Against longtermism: 19/10/2021 (Phil Torres) (WebRef=11124)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Scales - Defend the deep: 15/10/2021 (Helen Scales) (WebRef=11106)
→ 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)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Ritchey - Healthcare workers of yore: 12/10/2021 (Sara Ritchey) (WebRef=11100)
→ Looking past conventional histories of medicine we see that women delivered much of medieval healthcare. Just as today
- Aeon: Frame - What geometry taught me about awe, love and grief: 12/10/2021 (Michael Frame) (WebRef=11099)
- Aeon: McFadden - Why simplicity works: 11/10/2021 (Johnjoe McFadden) (WebRef=11103)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Hill - When hope is a hindrance: 04/10/2021571
- Aeon: Rothschild - Slavery en famille: 01/10/2021 (Emma Rothschild) (PID Note: Race572) (WebRef=11076)
→ 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: Memory573) (WebRef=11079)
→ 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 Identity574) (WebRef=11067)
→ Old ideas of manliness make us miserable. Being labelled ‘toxic’ doesn’t help. A reimagined masculinity is the way forward
- Aeon: Menon - What Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist tell us about talking to strangers: 29/09/2021 (Tara K. Menon) (WebRef=11078)
- Aeon: Sequeira - Creatures of the Popol Vuh: 28/09/2021 (Jessica Sequeira) (PID Note: Animals575) (WebRef=11070)
→ For the K’iche’ Mayans, animals were not lower beings but neighbours, alter egos and a way to communicate with the gods
- Aeon: Falbo - Fitting in is human: forcing someone to fit in is oppression: 27/09/2021 (Arianna Falbo) (PID Note: Narrative Identity576) (WebRef=11072)
- Aeon: Peleg - Living orbs of light: 21/09/2021 (Orit Peleg) (WebRef=11055)
→ Solving the mystery of how and why fireflies flash in time can illuminate the physics of complex systems
- Aeon: Last - The id and the nudge: where Freud meets behavioural economics: 21/09/2021 (Briana S. Last) (PID Note: Psychology577) (WebRef=11054)
- Aeon: Elias - Gossip fosters intimacy and even saves lives, but keep it offline: 20/09/2021 (Christopher M. Elias) (PID Note: Narrative Identity578) (WebRef=11057)
- Aeon: Devji - What is ‘the West’?: 20/09/2021 (Faisal Devji) (WebRef=11058)
→ 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: Sleep579) (WebRef=11040)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Green & Shariff - Our evolved intuitions about privacy aren’t made for this era: 15/09/2021 (Joe Green & Azim Shariff) (PID Note: Evolution580) (WebRef=11042)
- Aeon: Monso - What animals think of death: 14/09/2021 (Susana Monso) (PID Note: Death581) (WebRef=11048)
→ Having a concept of death, far from being a uniquely human feat, is a fairly common trait in the animal kingdom
- Aeon: Mermikides - Maestro of more than music: 10/09/2021 (Milton Mermikides) (WebRef=11035)
→ 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)
→ Machine-written literature might offend your tastes but until the dawn of Romanticism most writers were just as formulaic
- Aeon: D'Angour - Speaking Latin brings an unmediated thrill to the Classics: 08/09/2021 (Armand D'Angour) (WebRef=11026)
- Aeon: Penn - How to study effectively: 01/09/2021 (Paul Penn) (WebRef=11014)
→ Forget cramming, ditch the highlighter, and stop passively rereading. The psychology of learning offers better tactics
- Aeon: Harvey - So far and no further: the philosophy of Samuel Pepys: 01/09/2021 (Jacky Colliss Harvey) (WebRef=11010)
- Aeon: Money - The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence: 01/09/2021 (Nicholas P. Money) (PID Note: Plants582) (WebRef=11013)
- Aeon: Gough - The mind does not exist: 30/08/2021 (Joe Gough) (PID Note: Mind583) (WebRef=11006)
→ 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)
→ 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: Computers584) (WebRef=10959)
→ 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: Psychopathology585) (WebRef=10958)
- Aeon: Earle - Why Spanish colonial officials feared the power of clothing: 18/08/2021 (Rebecca Earle) (PID Note: Race586) (WebRef=10947)
- Aeon: Rudolph - Quit the millennial bashing – generationalism is bad science: 17/08/2021 (Cort W. Rudolph) (WebRef=10950)
- Aeon: Mamdani - The South African model: 17/08/2021 (Mahood Mamdani) (PID Note: Race587) (WebRef=10951)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Vintiadis - The view from her: 16/08/2021 (Elly Vintiadis) (WebRef=10954)
→ 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)
→ 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: Wirzbicki - Ralph Waldo Emerson would really hate your Twitter feed: 09/08/2021 (Peter Wirzbicki) (PID Note: Race588) (WebRef=10935)
- Aeon: Wampole - Can culture degenerate?: 05/08/2021 (Christy Wampole) (PID Note: Race589) (WebRef=10916)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Evans - After neurodiversity: 29/07/2021 (Bonnie Evans) (PID Note: Psychopathology590) (WebRef=10896)
→ We live in a world that must move beyond identity politics and embrace new models of the mind. Enter psydiversity
- Aeon: Sebo & Schukraft - Don’t farm bugs: 27/07/2021 (Jeff Sebo & Jason Schukraft) (WebRef=10890)
→ Insect farming bakes, boils and shreds animals by the trillion. It’s immoral, risky and won’t resolve the climate crisis
- Aeon: Okrent - Typos, tricks and misprints: 26/07/2021 (Arika Okrent) (WebRef=10893)
→ 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 Property591) (WebRef=10878)
- Aeon: Mullaney - How a solitary prisoner decoded Chinese for the QWERTY keyboard: 21/07/2021 (Tom Mullaney) (PID Note: Computers592) (WebRef=10882)
- Aeon: Nord - Mental disorders are brain disorders – here’s why that matters: 20/07/2021 (Camilla Nord) (PID Note: Psychopathology593) (WebRef=10873)
- Aeon: Merritt - A non-Standard model: 19/07/2021 (David Merritt) (WebRef=10877)
→ Most cosmologists say dark matter must exist. So far, it’s nowhere to be found. A widely scorned rival theory explains why
- Aeon: Wulf - Vast early America: 15/07/2021 (Karin Wulf) (PID Note: Race594) (WebRef=10865)
→ There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today
- Aeon: Markey - How to love your body: 14/07/2021 (Charlotte H. Markey) (PID Note: Body595) (WebRef=10856)
→ 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: Evolution596) (WebRef=10864)
- Aeon: Rapley - Plagues and empires: 13/07/2021 (John Rapley) (WebRef=10859)
→ 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: Shushan - Near-death experiences have long inspired afterlife beliefs: 12/07/2021 (Gregory Shushan) (PID Note: Near Death Experiences597) (WebRef=10860)
- Aeon: Agarwal - Is grandad on the moon?: 08/07/2021 (Pragya Agarwal) (PID Note: Death598) (WebRef=10836)
→ 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: DiYanni - How to gain more from your reading: 07/07/2021 (Robert DiYanni) (WebRef=10838)
→ There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading
- Aeon: Matthews - Talk of toxic masculinity puts the blame in all the wrong places: 07/07/2021 (Heidi Matthews) (PID Note: Psychopathology599) (WebRef=10837)
- Aeon: Kiverstein, Rietveld & Denys - World wide open: 06/07/2021 (Julian Kiverstein, Erik Rietveld & Damiaan Denys) (PID Note: Brain600) (WebRef=10828)
→ 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: Race601) (WebRef=10773)
→ 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: Personality602) (WebRef=10772)
- Aeon: Bothwell - Contact: 15/06/2021 (Matthew Bothwell) (PID Note: Transhumanism603) (WebRef=10767)
→ 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: Transhumanism604) (WebRef=10769)
- Aeon: Daly - Philosophy’s lack of progress: 11/06/2021 (Chris Daly) (WebRef=10737)
→ 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)
→ 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: Race605) (WebRef=10730)
- Aeon: Simon - Why your consciousness depends on the low-entropy early Universe: 09/06/2021 (Jonathan Simon) (PID Note: Consciousness606) (WebRef=10739)
- Aeon: Smith - Exit the Fatherland: 03/06/2021 (Helmut Walser Smith) (WebRef=10697)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Law - My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains: 02/06/2021 (Stephen Law) (PID Note: Wittgenstein607) (WebRef=10688)
- Aeon: Masud - There is nothing so deep as the gleaming surface of the aphorism: 01/06/2021 (Noreen Masud) (WebRef=10690)
- Aeon: Peterson - Self-knowledge is a super power – if it’s not an illusion: 26/05/2021 (Jared Peterson) (PID Note: Self608) (WebRef=10684)
- Aeon: Mishra - Here’s to my lovely, incandescent relationship with alcohol: 25/05/2021 (Anandi Mishra) (WebRef=10674)
- Aeon: Miller & White - The warped self: 25/05/2021 (Mark Miller & Ben White) (PID Note: Self609) (WebRef=10675)
→ 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)
→ 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: Transhumanism610) (WebRef=10677)
- Aeon: Cernis - When reality slips through your fingers: in search of dissociation: 19/05/2021 (Emma Cernis) (PID Note: Psychopathology611) (WebRef=10667)
- Aeon: Wallace - You are a network: 18/05/2021 (Kathleen Wallace) (PID Note: Self612) (WebRef=10661)
→ 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 Identity613) (WebRef=10664)
→ Vandals, Goths, Alemanni, Sueves… the Romans grappled endlessly with the status of ethnic peoples in their vast empire
- Aeon: Riley - The seed of suffering: 14/05/2021 (Alex Riley) (PID Note: Psychopathology614) (WebRef=10652)
→ The p-factor is the dark matter of psychiatry: an invisible, unifying force that might lie behind a multitude of mental disorders
- Aeon: Egan - What our use of animal-based slurs and endearments says about us: 12/05/2021 (David Egan) (PID Note: Animals615) (WebRef=10654)
- Aeon: Lone - Philosophy with children: 11/05/2021 (Jana Mohr Lone) (WebRef=10647)
→ 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 Property616) (WebRef=10650)
→ 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: Reincarnation617) (WebRef=10634)
→ Modern mindfulness strips Buddhism of its spiritual core. We need an ethics of reincarnation for an interconnected world
- Aeon: McCormick - Quantum music: 06/05/2021 (Katie McCormick) (PID Note: Quantum Mechanics618) (WebRef=10632)
→ Physics has long looked to harmony to explain the beauty of the Universe. But what if dissonance yields better insights?
- Aeon: King - My cancer scars map the pain of animals held in research labs: 05/05/2021 (Barbara J. King) (PID Note: Animal Rights619) (WebRef=10623)
- Aeon: Peterson - A city but not upon a hill: 03/05/2021 (Mark Peterson) (PID Note: Narrative Identity620) (WebRef=10630)
→ 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: Brain621) (WebRef=10610)
→ What pea-sized brain organoids reveal about consciousness, the self and our future as a species
- Aeon: Foulkes - How to have more meaningful conversations: 28/04/2021 (Lucy Foulkes) (PID Note: Society622) (WebRef=10615)
→ Be brave enough to share, kind enough to listen, and you can escape the shallows of small talk to dive deep with another
- Aeon: Stern - Authenticity is a sham: 27/04/2021 (Alexander Stern) (PID Note: Narrative Identity623) (WebRef=10604)
→ 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: Death624) (WebRef=10599)
- Aeon: Barboianu - Mathematics for gamblers: 20/04/2021 (Catalin Barboianu) (PID Note: Probability625) (WebRef=10592)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Yu - The radical impact of seeing Alzheimer’s as a second childhood: 19/04/2021 (Han Yu) (PID Note: Psychopathology626) (WebRef=10594)
- Aeon: Sperber - Looking at portraits with an eye to evolutionary psychology: 14/04/2021 (Dan Sperber) (PID Note: Evolution627) (WebRef=10575)
- Aeon: Carr - Nightmares becalmed: 12/04/2021 (Michelle Carr) (PID Note: Sleep628) (WebRef=10573)
→ I’m a dream engineer. Through touch, scent and sound, we help people rescript the dramas of their sleeping lives
- Aeon: McFadden - Brain wifi: 05/04/2021 (Johnjoe McFadden) (PID Note: Consciousness629) (WebRef=10559)
→ 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: Psychopathology630) (WebRef=10542)
→ Are women really at greater risk from dementia? Until we reckon with social roles and inequalities, it’s impossible to say
- Aeon: Woods - What Arthur Schopenhauer learned about genius at the asylum: 31/03/2021 (David Bather Woods) (PID Note: Psychopathology631) (WebRef=10530)
- Aeon: Green - After slavery: 30/03/2021 (Toby Green) (PID Note: Race632) (WebRef=10534)
→ Abolition in Africa brought longed-for freedoms, but also political turmoil, economic collapse and rising enslavement
- Aeon: Moynihan - Thanks for all the fish: 18/03/2021 (Thomas Moynihan) (PID Note: Animals633) (WebRef=10500)
→ The search for dolphin intelligence and the quest for alien life have moved in historical lockstep. What does the future hold?
- Aeon: Harden - The science of terrible men: 11/03/2021 (Kathryn Paige Harden) (PID Note: Race634) (WebRef=10456)
→ 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: Psychopathology635) (WebRef=10442)
→ 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?636) (WebRef=10444)
- Aeon: Melton - Racism has broadened ‘Black time’ to an always and everywhere: 01/03/2021 (Desiree H. Melton) (PID Note: Race637) (WebRef=10438)
- Aeon: Kaur - Brand India: 18/02/2021 (Ravinder Kaur) (PID Note: Race638) (WebRef=10413)
→ 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: Ontology639) (WebRef=10402)
- Aeon: Schaefer - If you stay mentally well your entire life, you’re not normal: 16/02/2021 (Jonathan D. Schaefer) (PID Note: Psychopathology640) (WebRef=10404)
→ If you stay mentally well your entire life, you’re not normal
- Aeon: Sleigh - The abuses of Popper: 16/02/2021 (Charlotte Sleigh) (WebRef=10405)
→ 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: Transhumanism641) (WebRef=10395)
→ 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: Race642) (WebRef=10389)
→ 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: Evolution643) (WebRef=10392)
→ 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: Religion644) (WebRef=10375)
→ 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 Rights645) (WebRef=10370)
→ 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 Identity646) (WebRef=10347)
→ 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: Transhumanism647) (WebRef=10344)
- Aeon: Fridman - The problem with prediction: 25/01/2021 (Joseph Fridman) (PID Note: Consciousness648) (WebRef=10336)
→ 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: Probability649) (WebRef=10278)
→ 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 Kinds650) (WebRef=10281)
→ ‘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: Psychopathology651) (WebRef=10280)
- Aeon: Kinney - The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune: 18/01/2021 (David Kinney) (PID Note: Free Will652) (WebRef=10283)
- Aeon: Uribe - To be a responsible citizen today, it is not enough to be reasonable: 12/01/2021 (Francisco Mejia Uribe) (PID Note: Society653) (WebRef=10259)
- Aeon: Laland & Chiu - Evolution’s engineers: 11/01/2021 (Kevin Laland & Lynn Chiu) (PID Note: Evolution654) (WebRef=10262)
→ 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: Self655) (WebRef=10261)
- Aeon: Fischer - The problem of now: 08/01/2021 (John Martin Fischer) (PID Note: Time656) (WebRef=10229)
→ 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: Modality657) (WebRef=10228)
→ 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: 23/12/2020658
- Aeon: Cox - When does a human embryo have the moral status of a person?: 09/12/2020 (David Cox) (PID Note: Embryo659) (WebRef=10176)
- Aeon: Gandy - Altered states can help us face death with serenity and levity: 08/12/2020 (Sam Gandy) (PID Note: Death660) (WebRef=10179)
- Aeon: Neumann & Kaufman - Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?: 07/12/2020 (Craig Neumann & Scott Barry Kaufman) (PID Note: Psychopathology661) (WebRef=10182)
- Aeon: Nixon - The body as mediator: 07/12/2020 (Dan Nixon) (PID Note: Body662) (WebRef=10183)
→ 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: Race663) (WebRef=10167)
→ 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 Will664) (WebRef=10162)
- Aeon: Matějčková - How Emil Utitz salvaged his humanity in a non-human world: 30/11/2020 (Teresa Matějčková) (PID Note: Race665) (WebRef=10160)
- Aeon: Autry - Sociology’s race problem: 26/11/2020 (Robyn Autry) (PID Note: Race666) (WebRef=10129)
→ 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: Animals667) (WebRef=10124)
- Aeon: de Vignemont & Klein - How close is too close?: 24/11/2020 (Frederique de Vignemont & Colin Klein) (PID Note: Self668) (WebRef=10118)
→ 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: Self669) (WebRef=10120)
- Aeon: Kacar - Do we send the goo?: 20/11/2020 (Betül Kaçar) (PID Note: Life670) (WebRef=10108)
→ 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: Life671) (WebRef=10086)
→ 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: Race672) (WebRef=10085)
→ 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: Evolution673) (WebRef=10082)
→ 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: 04/11/2020674
- Aeon: Waltner-Toews - The wisdom of pandemics: 03/11/2020 (David Waltner-Toews) (PID Note: Evolution675) (WebRef=10059)
→ 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 Transfer676) (WebRef=10061)
- Aeon: Crucianelli - The need to touch: 26/10/2020 (Laura Crucianelli) (PID Note: Society677) (WebRef=10048)
→ 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 Identity678) (WebRef=10034)
- Aeon: Platts-Mills - Memory involves the whole body. It’s how the self defies amnesia: 19/10/2020 (Ben Platts-Mills) (PID Note: Memory679) (WebRef=10026)
- Aeon: Levin & Dennett - Cognition all the way down: 13/10/2020 (Michael Levin & Daniel Dennett) (PID Note: Consciousness680) (WebRef=10005)
→ 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 Identity681) (WebRef=9939)
→ 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 Thought682) (WebRef=9927)
→ 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: Consciousness683) (WebRef=9509)
→ 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: Probability684) (WebRef=9226)
→ While some keep their cards close to their chest, others try raising the stakes. What can poker teach us about dating?
- Aeon: Sebo - All we owe to animals: 15/01/2020 (Jeff Sebo) (PID Note: Animal Rights685) (WebRef=8874)
→ It is not enough to conserve species and ecosystems. We have an ethical duty to care for each individual animal on earth
- Aeon: Hämäläinen - The Lakota never left: 02/10/2019 (Pekka Hamalainen) (WebRef=10899)
→ Facing annihilation, the Lakota instead remade themselves – and took a lead role among the world’s Indigenous peoples
- Aeon: Lachmann & Walker - Life ≠ alive: 24/06/2019686
- Aeon: Montgomery - For the hate of dogs: 10/06/2019 (Sy Montgomery) (PID Note: Animals687) (WebRef=8147)
- Aeon: Chappell & Lawford-Smith - Transgender: a dialogue: 15/11/2018 (Sophie Grace Chappell & Holly Lawford-Smith) (PID Note: Narrative Identity688) (WebRef=8546)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Ananthaswamy - Through two doors: 02/10/2018 (Anil Ananthaswamy) (WebRef=8567)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Cooperrider - Gesture talks: 14/05/2018 (Kensey Cooperrider) (PID Note: Language of Thought689) (WebRef=9706)
→ 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: Sleep690) (WebRef=8396)
- Aeon: Bae - In to Asia: 29/03/2018 (Christopher Bae) (WebRef=11089)
→ 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: Transhumanism691) (WebRef=9013)
→ Robot relationships need not be kinky, exploitative or fake. In fact they might give human relationships a helpful boost
- Aeon: Metzinger - Are you sleepwalking now?: 22/01/2018692
- Aeon: Livingston - Fuck work: 25/11/2016 (James Livingston) (WebRef=11450)
→ 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: Sleep693) (WebRef=11394)
→ The world’s great religions and spiritual journeys emerged from dreams and visions. Neurochemistry tells us how
- Aeon: Warburton - Cosmopolitans: 04/03/2013 (Nigel Warburton) (WebRef=11553)
→ It’s not just me, you and everyone we know. Citizens of the world have moral obligations to a wider circle of humanity
- Priority: 2
- Aeon: Video - The opposites game: 27/04/2022 (WebRef=11617)
→ An English teacher asks his class: ‘What’s the opposite of a gun?’
- Aeon: Video - Weaving a bamboo house: 17/03/2022 (WebRef=11518)
→ How the Dorze in Ethiopia make ‘beehive’ houses from bamboo that last a lifetime
- Aeon: Video - Small protests: 15/03/2022 (WebRef=11512)
→ With barely a possession to his name, Rabbit builds a life around fighting corruption
- Aeon: Video - Insects take flight: 25/01/2022 (WebRef=11385)
→ How insects become airborne, slowed down to a speed the human eye can appreciate
- Aeon: Video - Brown sounds: 22/12/2021 (WebRef=11326)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ How the Hindu myth of Annapurna, goddess of food, connects sustenance with spirituality
- Aeon: Video - Caribbean honeymoon: 15/11/2021 (WebRef=11235)
→ ‘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: Psychopathology694) (WebRef=11156)
→ Artists can flourish after brain damage. What does this say about neurology and aesthetics?
- Aeon: Video - The field trip: 26/10/2021 (WebRef=11139)
→ ‘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)
→ How did ‘personal responsibility’ evolve into its opposite, ‘everyone for themselves’?
- Aeon: Video - Kapaemahu: 14/09/2021 (WebRef=11046)
→ The nearly forgotten origin myth of Hawaii’s third-gender healers, as told by one
- Aeon: Video - Captured images: 02/09/2021 (WebRef=11009)
→ Remarkable historical footage is locked behind paywalls. It’s time to set it free
- Aeon: Video - Small is beautiful: impressions of Fritz Schumacher: 31/08/2021695
- Aeon: Video - Bubble: 30/08/2021 (WebRef=11004)
→ 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)
→ An improvised animation doubles as an absurdly fun lesson in creativity
- Aeon: Video - The shift: 20/07/2021 (WebRef=10872)
→ Emergency first responders meet chaos with dissonant calm in this gripping short
- Aeon: Video - The same: 29/06/2021 (WebRef=10799)
→ The buzzes, clanks and whirrs of prison life form a meditation on freedom
- Aeon: Video - The rifleman: 07/06/2021 (WebRef=10734)
→ How did the NRA transform from a sporting group to a mighty political force?
- Aeon: Video - Tarikat: 19/04/2021 (WebRef=10593)
→ Dissolve into the immersive, entrancing rhythms of a Sufi chant
- Aeon: Video - My brother's keeper: 01/04/2021 (WebRef=10540)
→ A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner and his guard reunite as equals 13 years later
- Aeon: Video - Dadli: 31/03/2021 (WebRef=10538)
→ 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)
→ ‘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)
→ Spacewalks above, pandemic below – how one ISS crew member experienced 2020
- Aeon: Video - Bear with me: 09/03/2021 (WebRef=10450)
→ 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)
→ When medicine offers no relief, a biohacker begins a radical self-experiment
- Aeon: Video - Tower: 28/01/2021 (WebRef=10346)
→ Each memory in different strokes: how four siblings recall a tumultuous childhood
- Aeon: Video - Gradations: 27/01/2021 (WebRef=10337)
→ 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)
→ 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 Property696) (WebRef=10192)
→ All’s not well that ends well – why Kant centred morality on motives, not outcomes
- Aeon: Video - The trouble with love and sex: 30/11/2020 (WebRef=10159)
→ ‘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)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ For proof that love is timeless, consider how long philosophers have debated it
- Aeon: Video - XX files - animalia genitalia: 01/11/2020 (PID Note: Evolution697) (WebRef=10052)
→ A pioneering biologist explains the co-evolution of the vagina and penis
- Aeon: Video - Ashes to ashes: 21/10/2020 (WebRef=10031)
→ Should art heal the centuries of racial violence and injustice in the US?
- Aeon: Video - Carl Sagan's message to aliens: 19/10/2020698
- Aeon: Video - Giant Steps: 13/10/2020 (PID Note: Psychopathology699) (WebRef=10003)
→ Step into synaesthesia’s visual soundscape, built with the music of John Coltrane
- Aeon: Video - Mary Beard: Women in power: 01/10/2020700
- Aeon: Video - The physarum experiments: 21/09/2020 (PID Note: Life701) (WebRef=9937)
→ 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)
→ 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: Animals702) (WebRef=9904)
→ 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)
→ This puzzle is nearly impossible – but working out why is its own brain-teaser
- Aeon: Video - Stone cut: 18/08/2020 (WebRef=9843)
→ Surreal, audacious, unfinished – the Sagrada Família remains a divine work in progress
- Aeon: Video - Home stream: 16/07/2020 (WebRef=9662)
→ A street-level view of homelessness from a woman living through it
- Aeon: Video - The story of ones: 16/03/2020 (WebRef=9255)
→ 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)
→ How hundreds of small ‘Gardens of Eden’ guard against total deforestation in Ethiopia
- Aeon: Video - Romanticism: poetry and philosophy: 14/02/2020 (WebRef=9170)
→ What can the Romantics teach us about confronting modern problems?
- Aeon: Video - Fairytale of the three bears: 07/02/2020 (WebRef=9147)
→ In rural Russia, the days of Communism are fading from memory like fairytales
- Aeon: Video - Guaxuma: 27/01/2020 (PID Note: Memory703) (WebRef=9083)
→ ‘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)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ Are mushrooms, shamans and ancient rituals at the root of the Santa Claus story?
- Aeon: Video - Cooperation and evolution: 21/11/2019 (WebRef=8224)
- Aeon: Video - What toddlers can teach us about how the human brain does science: 02/08/2019704
- Aeon: Video - Why artificial neural networks have a long way to go before they can ‘see’ like us: 09/07/2019 (WebRef=8078)
→ 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)
- Aeon: Video - Are you sure? Truth, certainty and politics: 20/05/2019705
- Aeon: Video - Timelapse of the future: 18/04/2019 (WebRef=8271)
- Aeon: Video - Animal gaits: 05/04/2019 (WebRef=8295)
- Aeon: Video - Karl Popper: philosophy against false prophets: 28/03/2019 (WebRef=8309)
- Aeon: Video - Universe: 26/03/2019 (WebRef=8313)
- Aeon: Video - Stephen Hawking: supertranslation: 25/02/2019 (Stephen Hawking) (WebRef=8346)
- Aeon: Video - Being 97: 18/02/2019 (WebRef=8358)
→ An ageing philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all?’
- Aeon: Video - 20 Hz: 15/02/2019 (WebRef=8362)
→ Magnetic and majestic: visualising the powerful storms hidden from human view
- Aeon: Video - Erica: Man made: 11/02/2019 (WebRef=8371)
→ 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 Will706) (WebRef=8445)
- Aeon: Video - Seven million years of human evolution: 20/12/2018 (WebRef=8469)
- Aeon: Video - Cosmologist Pedro Ferreira on dark energy: 17/12/2018 (WebRef=8488)
- Aeon: Video - What is fat for?: 14/12/2018 (WebRef=8494)
→ Abundance has made fat an enemy, but it’s been a friend to humans for millennia
- Aeon: Video - The truth about algorithms: 20/11/2018707
- Aeon: Video - Want a whole new body? Ask this flatworm how: 15/11/2018 (PID Note: Animals708) (WebRef=8548)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ The physics revolution that started with the flicker of a lightbulb
- Aeon: Video - 73 cows: 22/10/2018 (WebRef=8607)
→ 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)
→ Splitting the truth: the philosopher that physics forgot
- Aeon: Video - Can apes really 'talk' to humans?: 15/10/2018 (WebRef=8621)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ 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)
→ From eruption to obliteration – the sights and sounds of 48 fateful hours in Pompeii
- Aeon: Video - Frames of Reference: 13/09/2018 (WebRef=8461)
→ 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)
→ Human as a process: What awaits us in the coming age of bio-enhancement?
- Aeon: Video - You gotta believe: 30/07/2018709
- Aeon: Video - Bertrand Russell: Face to Face: 16/07/2018 (Bertrand Russell) (WebRef=8796)
→ A fanatic against fanaticism, and other pleasures of Bertrand Russell in his own words
- Aeon: Video - Personal truth: 12/07/2018 (WebRef=8823)
→ Sure, ‘Pizzagate’ is bunk, but does a conspiracy theorist lurk inside all of us?
- Aeon: Video - The restrained brain: 09/07/2018 (PID Note: Brain710) (WebRef=8452)
→ Why preparation, not willpower, is the key to mastering self-restraint
- Aeon: Video - The evolution of parenting: 06/07/2018 (WebRef=8817)
→ Could grandmotherly love help to explain how we became human?
- Aeon: Video - A spark of consciousness: 02/07/2018 (Danbee Kim & David Chalmers) (WebRef=8811)
→ Leaping from firing neurons to human behaviour is tempting, but it’s a perilous gap
- Aeon: Video - Mythos: 29/06/2018 (WebRef=8455)
→ Clever graphic vignettes communicate the timeless simplicity of Greek myths
- Aeon: Video - Reading a dog's mind: 12/06/2018 (Gregory Berns) (WebRef=8850)
→ What is your dog really thinking? MRI brain scans might soon provide the answer
- Aeon: Video - I kill: 01/06/2018 (WebRef=8886)
→ Is a hands-on approach to animal slaughter more humane?
- Aeon: Video - Cucli: 28/05/2018 (WebRef=8876)
→ How caring for an injured dove gave a widowed man a new outlook on life
- Aeon: Video - Three red sweaters: 08/05/2018 (WebRef=8914)
→ Do we need our memories when we can document virtually every aspect of our lives?
- Aeon: Video - Know thyself: 13/04/2018 (Nigel Warburton) (PID Note: Self711) (WebRef=8969)
→ Socrates believed self-knowledge was essential. Today, we wonder if there’s even a self to know
- Aeon: Video - I have a message for you: 09/04/2018 (WebRef=8466)
- Aeon: Video - Aldous Huxley on technodictators: 30/03/2018 (Aldous Huxley) (PID Note: Transhumanism712) (WebRef=9001)
→ Aldous Huxley on the dangers of being ‘caught by surprise by our own advancing technology’
- Aeon: Video - All terrain robot: 09/03/2018 (WebRef=9025)
→ The tiny robot that could wriggle its way across the perilous terrain of the human body
- Aeon: Video - Alien hand: 02/03/2018 (WebRef=9036)
→ A syndrome stranger than sci-fi – how limbs can get a mind of their own
- Aeon: Video - Experience composite: 06/02/2018 (WebRef=9102)
→ What happens when you start paying close attention to everyday sensory experience?
- Aeon: Video - Umwelt: 29/01/2018 (WebRef=9092)
→ What can pairing fast-blooming flowers with crawling insects reveal about cognition?
- Aeon: Video - Bronze casting using the 'lost wax' technique: 18/01/2018 (WebRef=9126)
→ The intricate, ancient bronze-casting process that ends with a satisfying crunch
- Aeon: Video - Traffic stop: 16/01/2018 (WebRef=9122)
→ A routine police stop quickly turns perilous for a black man in this Emmy®-winning short
- Aeon: Video - Strange continuity: why our brains don't explode at film cuts: 19/09/2017 (WebRef=8499)
- Aeon: Video - Why it's impossible to tune a piano: 13/06/2017 (WebRef=8785)
→ The mathematics of music means piano strings can never be in perfect harmony
- Aeon: Video - How quantum superposition could unravel the ‘grandfather paradox’: 19/05/2017 (PID Note: Time Travel713) (WebRef=4115)
- Aeon: Video - Gatekeeper: 06/03/2017 (PID Note: Psychopathology714) (WebRef=11609)
→ An elderly man dedicates himself to saving lives at Japan’s ‘suicide cliffs’
- Aeon: Video - Muxes: 21/02/2017 (WebRef=9618)
→ In southern Mexico, a long-acknowledged ‘third gender’ is not masculine or feminine
- Aeon: Video - Karl Popper's falsification: 22/12/2016 (Nigel Warburton) (WebRef=8832)
→ ‘Falsification’ ruled 20th-century science. Does it need revision in the 21st?
- Aeon: Video - Diotema's ladder - from lust to morality: 07/10/2016 (WebRef=11012)
→ Why Socrates believed that sexual desire is the first step towards righteousness
- Aeon: Video - Rod Serling on science fiction: 13/06/2016 (WebRef=9756)
→ Rod Serling on how imagination turns science fiction into fact
- Aeon: Video - Chalmers: The philosophy of virtual reality: 23/05/2016 (David Chalmers) (WebRef=8663)
→ New realities are imminent: how VR reframes big questions in philosophy
- Aeon: Video - Privacy and power in the digital age: 21/03/2016 (Luciano Floridi, Nigel Warburton) (WebRef=8843)
→ The information age traffics in speed. To adapt to it wisely, we must slow down
- Aeon: Video - Logical Positivism: 28/01/2016 (WebRef=8628)
→ You messed up. You’re in trouble. But don’t worry, logical positivism can help
- Aeon: Video - Why can't we walk straight: 20/11/2015 (WebRef=9110)
→ Why can’t blindfolded people walk in a straight line? It’s a scientific mystery
- Aeon: Video - The divided brain: 06/08/2015 (WebRef=8740)
→ Our divided brains are far more complex and remarkable than a left/right split
- Aeon: Video - Gina: 20/07/2015 (WebRef=9008)
→ A moving argument for one woman’s right to choose when and how she dies
- Aeon: Video - The Libet Experiment: Is Free Will Just an Illusion?: 16/03/2015 (PID Note: Free Will715) (WebRef=8200)
- Aeon: Video - The man who turned paper into pixels: 09/03/2015716
- Aeon: Video - The blind woman who saw rain: 20/01/2015 (WebRef=11369)
→ After losing her vision, a woman’s sense of sight returns in a strange new way
- Aeon: Video - This must be the place: 29/12/2014 (WebRef=8950)
→ A 70-year-old Danish mariner and yogi shares his plans for dying well
- Aeon: Video - Wanderers: 02/12/2014 (WebRef=9115)
→ A stunning vision of the possibilities of humanity’s expansion into space
- Aeon: Video - Cathedrals: 12/08/2014 (WebRef=9261)
→ An abandoned Chinese city is the backdrop for a haunting fable on capitalism
- Aeon: Video - The prodigy: 25/04/2014 (WebRef=8996)
→ For the star of the Bolshoi Ballet, there is no distinction between life and art
- Aeon: Video - Minka: 17/01/2014 (WebRef=8867)
→ A Japanese student and an American journalist rescue an ancient farmhouse
- Aeon: Video - Future dimensions: 19/11/2013 (PID Note: Transhumanism717) (WebRef=8523)
→ Welcome to a world of existential threats, philosophers and clever robots
- Aeon: Isberg - A new Earth rises: 16/05/2022 (Erik Isberg) (WebRef=11652)
→ How did the planet replace the nation-state to become the prime political object of the 21st century?
- Aeon: Cope - Breakfast with the Panthers: 10/05/2022 (Suzanne Cope) (PID Note: Race718) (WebRef=11648)
→ It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California
- Aeon: Salmon - Since Derrida: 06/05/2022 (Peter Salmon) (WebRef=11632)
→ A golden generation of French philosophers dismantled truth and other traditional ideas. What next for their successors?
- Aeon: Lomas - The journeys taken by emotion words shape our inner lives: 04/05/2022 (Tim Lomas) (WebRef=11624)
- Aeon: Steckler - What my patient with paranoia taught me about fear and humanity: 04/05/2022 (Patricia Steckler) (PID Note: Psychopathology719) (WebRef=11634)
- Aeon: Smith - Energised crowding: 03/05/2022 (Michael E. Smith) (WebRef=11628)
→ To understand why early cities thrived, look not to the temples of kings but to their subjects’ bustling neighbourhoods
- Aeon: Russell - A fairly fed world: 02/05/2022 (Sharman Apt Russell) (WebRef=11630)
→ Last year, 200 million children did not get enough to eat, yet it would be cheap and easy for the world to feed them all
- Aeon: Machin - Tainted love: 29/04/2022 (Anna Machin) (WebRef=11618)
→ Love is both a wonderful thing and a cunning evolutionary trick to control us. A dangerous cocktail in the wrong hands
- Aeon: Minden - How to take things less personally: 27/04/2022 (Joel Minden) (PID Note: Psychopathology720) (WebRef=11611)
→ Always blaming yourself or assuming others think ill of you? A CBT therapist shares ways to break these self-critical habits
- Aeon: Prinzing - Religion gives life meaning. Can anything else take its place?: 27/04/2022 (Michael M. Prinzing) (PID Note: Religion721) (WebRef=11610)
- Aeon: Deleva - When fear grew in my stomach, I starved myself just to survive: 27/04/2022 (Nataliya Deleva) (PID Note: Psychopathology722) (WebRef=11620)
- Aeon: Zeldovich - The power of shit: 22/04/2022 (Nina Zeldovich) (WebRef=11599)
→ Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it
- Aeon: Singh - Primitive communism: 19/04/2022 (Manvir Singh) (WebRef=11597)
→ Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong
- Aeon: Barendse & Byrne - Why does early puberty pose a risk to girls’ mental health?: 19/04/2022 (Marjolein E.A. Barendse & Michelle L. Byrne) (PID Note: Psychopathology723) (WebRef=11596)
- Aeon: Barwich - The lady vanishes: 18/04/2022 (Ann-Sophie Barwich) (WebRef=11592)
→ The history of ideas still struggles to remember the names of notable women philosophers. Mary Hesse is a salient example
- Aeon: Kvangraven - Beyond Eurocentrism: 15/04/2022724
- Aeon: Düringer - For Iris Murdoch, being understanding is life’s moral project: 13/04/2022725
- Aeon: Anderson - Engaging with an artwork leaves you and the art transformed: 29/03/2022 (Miranda Anderson) (WebRef=11551)
- Aeon: Rees - Kafka the hypochondriac: 29/03/2022726
- Aeon: Monroe - What did the ancient Babylonians discern in the skies above?: 23/03/2022 (M. Willis Monroe) (WebRef=11529)
- Aeon: Garb - Bias in mental health diagnosis gets in the way of treatment: 22/03/2022 (Howard N. Garb) (PID Note: Psychopathology727) (WebRef=11532)
- Aeon: Atkins - Dashing to nowhere: 03/03/2022728
- Aeon: Pearce - Contaminated kinship: 24/02/2022 (Lilian Pearce) (WebRef=11466)
→ If your hometown were beset with toxic dust, like Australia’s Broken Hill, would you feel any less connected to it?
- Aeon: Boccaletti - The power of water: 15/02/2022 (Giulio Boccaletti) (WebRef=11444)
→ Far more potent than oil or gold, water is a stream of geopolitical force that runs deep, feeding crops and building nations
- Aeon: Putz - How to restore a savanna: 07/02/2022 (Francis E. Putz) (WebRef=11416)
→ Massive tree-planting programmes have come to substitute for the tradeoffs and complexity of restoring real ecosystems
- Aeon: Lawrie - How to decide whether to take antidepressants: 02/02/2022 (Stephen Lawrie) (PID Note: Psychopathology729) (WebRef=11400)
→ They’re controversial yet they help countless people. To see if pills are right for you, these are the questions to ask
- Aeon: Montgomery - Trees don’t rush to heal from trauma and neither should we: 01/02/2022 (Beronda Montgomery) (WebRef=11402)
- Aeon: Feldman - Hope is not optimism: 20/01/2022 (David B. Feldman) (WebRef=11368)
→ Even when you know that prospects are grim, hope can help. It’s not just a feeling, but a way to step into the future
- Aeon: Fattacciu - The chocolate route: 18/01/2022 (Irene Fattacciu) (WebRef=11374)
→ The humble cocoa bean’s journey from its Amerindian origins to worldwide dominance is a lesson in the power of trade
- Aeon: Nesi - Suicide risk and social media: is it a landmine or a lifeline?: 17/01/2022 (Jacqueline Nesi) (WebRef=11376)
- Aeon: De Cruz & Lee - How to be useless: 12/01/2022 (Helen de Cruz & Pauline Lee) (WebRef=11357)
→ Follow the Daoist way – reclaim your life and happiness by letting go of the need to produce, strive or serve a purpose
- Aeon: Boden-Stuart - Love can fuel the deep empathy needed to understand psychosis: 12/01/2022 (Zoe Boden-Stuart) (WebRef=11356)
- Aeon: Macklin - When art transports us, where do we actually go?: 11/01/2022 (Harri Macklin) (WebRef=11359)
- Aeon: Cohen - The meaning of anger: 06/01/2022 (Josh Cohen) (WebRef=11348)
→ Is anger like energy, forever changing form but never dissipating, or part of our repertoire of desires, the cry of a need unmet?
- Aeon: Bikart - How to make a difficult decision: 05/01/2022 (Joseph Bikart) (WebRef=11342)
→ It’s tempting but unwise to delay important choices. Grasp the nettle by using both systematic checklists and gut instinct
- Aeon: Yosry - From sexual union to the divine – the teachings of Ibn al-‘Arabi: 04/01/2022 (Heba Yosry) (WebRef=11344)
- Aeon: McGuirk - The Waste Age: 04/01/2022 (Justin McGuirk) (WebRef=11340)
→ Recognising that waste is central, not peripheral, to everything we design, make and do is key to transforming the future
- Aeon: Potter - How disruptions happen: 23/12/2021 (David Potter) (WebRef=11330)
→ Major disruptions in world history follow a clear pattern. What can upheavals of the past tell us about our own future?
- Aeon: Gordon - When all looks bleak, hopebuilding strategies offer a lifeline: 22/12/2021 (Kathryn Gordon) (WebRef=11329)
- Aeon: Pigliucci - Stoics as activists: 21/12/2021 (Massimo Pigliucci) (WebRef=11335)
→ You might think of it as a philosophy for turning away from the world, but ancient Stoics took a stand against tyranny
- Aeon: Stier - Why life is faster but depression is lower in bigger cities: 21/12/2021 (Andrew Stier) (WebRef=11334)
- Aeon: Simon - How to pray to a dead God: 17/12/2021 (Ed Simon) (PID Note: Religion730) (WebRef=11311)
→ The modern world is disenchanted. God remains dead. But our need for transcendence lives on. How should we fulfil it?
- Aeon: Burgis - How to know what you really want: 15/12/2021 (Luke Burgis) (WebRef=11303)
→ From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path in life
- Aeon: Gehrlach - In hatboxes, pouches and bags lie the items that define us: 07/12/2021 (Andras Gehrlach) (WebRef=11285)
- Aeon: Henkin - How we became weekly: 30/11/2021 (David Henkin) (WebRef=11282)
→ The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it
- Aeon: Berson - Cities that grow themselves: 09/11/2021 (Josh Berson) (WebRef=11187)
→ They are spreading like branching plants across the globe. Should we rein cities in or embrace their biomorphic potential?
- Aeon: Garden - This is no love story: 05/11/2021 (Alison Garden) (WebRef=11160)
→ Strange entanglements of politics and romantic love marked England’s conquest of Ireland and still haunt the Irish today
- Aeon: Roberts & Lamp - The biggest picture: 04/11/2021 (Anthea Roberts & Nicholas Lamp) (WebRef=11163)
→ No wonder we cannot agree on how globalisation works and whether it’s a good thing. All the stories we have are flawed
- Aeon: Ortony - Are you sure you know what emotions are?: 03/11/2021 (Andrew Ortony) (WebRef=11162)
- Aeon: Cline - How Chinese philosophy can help you parent: 27/10/2021 (Erin Cline) (WebRef=11138)
→ Confucianism and Daoism suggest ways to guide your children toward meaning and fulfilment rather than wealth and prestige
- Aeon: deVries - Hegel today: 26/10/2021 (Willem deVries) (WebRef=11141)
→ Too dense, too abstract, too suspect, Hegel was outside the Anglophone canon for a century. Why is his star rising again?
- Aeon: Money - A vast, thrilling world of nature unfolds outside of human time: 19/10/2021 (Nicholas P. Money) (WebRef=11123)
- Aeon: Spitzer - Music and sex: 18/10/2021 (Michael Spitzer) (WebRef=11126)
→ A song can take you on a journey of ecstatic arousal. Is music imitating sex, inviting it, or something else altogether?
- Aeon: Hoare - One woman’s six-word mantra that has helped to calm millions: 11/10/2021 (Judith Hoare) (WebRef=11102)
- Aeon: Kellog & Torres - Chairwork: 29/09/2021 (Scott Kellog & Amanda Garcia Torres) (WebRef=11073)
→ It is a powerful, liberating therapy that lets you (literally) shift perspective on who you are, and who you could become
- Aeon: Platts-Mills - Asylum: 24/09/2021 (Ben Platts-Mills) (WebRef=11059)
→ Patients and psychiatrists at Saint-Alban in France fought against fascism side by side. What can we learn from them?
- Aeon: Egan - How to be anxious: 22/09/2021 (David Egan) (WebRef=11053)
→ Anxiety might be uncomfortable, but with a philosophical approach you’ll find it can awaken a thrilling sense of freedom
- Aeon: Buckingham - The hug from a stranger that helped me overcome my grief: 22/09/2021 (Will Buckingham) (WebRef=11060)
- Aeon: Slominski - Sex on the curriculum: 16/09/2021 (Kristy Slominski) (WebRef=11043)
→ Sex education is a battlefield over morals and young bodies, and has exposed fractures in American life for over a century
- Aeon: Selove - Party-crashing was a serious business in medieval Arabic tales: 14/09/2021 (Emily Selove) (WebRef=11047)
- Aeon: Cooper - Germany’s Wollstonecraft: 13/09/2021 (Andrew Cooper) (WebRef=11034)
→ Brilliant and fierce, the philosopher and educator Amalia Holst demonstrated how the German Enlightenment failed women
- Aeon: Smith - Hope is the antidote to helplessness. Here’s how to cultivate it: 13/09/2021 (Emily Esfahani Smith) (WebRef=11033)
- Aeon: Jarrett - How to come out of your shell: 08/09/2021 (Christian Jarrett) (WebRef=11027)
→ You don’t have to be outgoing. But if being introverted is holding you back from the life you want, dive in for a way out
- Aeon: Blackwell - It’s possible to help more positive images pop into your mind: 08/09/2021 (Simon Blackwell) (WebRef=11037)
- Aeon: Labanieh - Queer and Arab: 07/09/2021 (Aya Labanieh) (WebRef=11029)
→ Was there no room for the queer individual in Arab history? Have people like us simply never belonged?
- Aeon: Treanor - The ‘melancholic joy’ of living in our brutal, beautiful world: 06/09/2021 (Brian Treanor) (WebRef=11030)
- Aeon: Zeeberg - The food wars: 06/09/2021 (Amos Zeeberg) (WebRef=11031)
→ Vitamins or whole foods; high-fat or low-fat; sugar or sweetener. Will we ever get a clear idea about what we should eat?
- Aeon: Danzinger - What do you really want when you want to get your revenge?: 31/08/2021 (Renee Danzinger) (WebRef=11002)
- Aeon: Sheker - Where the rivers meet: 31/08/2021 (Manini Sheker) (WebRef=11003)
→ Pilgrims have long sought in India’s holiest city an antidote to the modern West, but Varanasi is more dream than reality
- Aeon: Harb - The meaning of cowardly dogs and other puzzles of Arabic poetry: 30/08/2021 (Lara Harb) (WebRef=11005)
- Aeon: Verity & Qualter - How to overcome the loneliness of youth: 18/08/2021 (Lily Verity & Pamela Qualter) (WebRef=10948)
→ It’s extremely common to feel lonely when you’re young. Many strategies can help, the key is finding what works for you
- Aeon: Stanley - Art from a mind at sea: 13/08/2021 (Michael Stanley) (PID Note: Psychopathology731) (WebRef=10938)
→ Louise’s Parkinsonism didn’t tamp her artistic drive, but exposed the link between perception, thought and creativity
- Aeon: Newberg - How an intense spiritual retreat might change your brain: 11/08/2021 (Andrew Newberg) (WebRef=10930)
- Aeon: Lench - There’s a way to avoid the slippery slopes of over-optimism: 11/08/2021 (Heather C. Lench) (WebRef=10940)
- Aeon: Cantalamessa - Democracy is sentimental: 09/08/2021 (Elizabeth Cantalamessa) (WebRef=10936)
→ Reason and facts cannot be the basis of political debates and civic life. Love and laughter are the heart of the matter
- Aeon: Grisel - The addiction trap: 06/08/2021 (Judith Grisel) (WebRef=10913)
→ Our inability to treat substance use disorders stems from a narrow-minded view that brains and genes are their real cause
- Aeon: van Eerde - How to stop procrastinating: 04/08/2021 (Wendelien van Eerde) (WebRef=10912)
→ Do you keep putting things off when you know you shouldn’t? Get going by understanding the psychology of irrational delay
- Aeon: Spens - In the cinema, my father’s unspeakable childhood finally surfaced: 02/08/2021 (Christina Spens) (WebRef=10909)
- Aeon: Robertson & Miyaharai - In praise of habits - so much more than mindless reflexes: 26/07/2021 (Ian Robertson & Miyaharai (Katsunori)A+) (WebRef=10892)
- Aeon: Howe - We’re all teenagers now: 22/07/2021 (Paul Howe) (WebRef=10881)
→ Adolescence isn’t a time of life so much as a frame of mind. Liberating yet damaging, it’s transformed the US and the world
- Aeon: O Connor - How to cope when life seems unreal: 21/07/2021 (Shaun O Connor) (WebRef=10883)
→ If you feel detached from the world, you might be going through depersonalisation. Be reassured, there are ways to recover
- Aeon: Vernon - The divine Dante: 20/07/2021 (Mark Vernon) (WebRef=10874)
→ At 700, Dante’s Divine Comedy is as modern as ever – a lesson in spiritual intelligence that makes us better at being alive
- Aeon: Callcut - Want to know, even if it hurts? You must be a truth masochist: 19/07/2021 (Daniel Callcut) (WebRef=10876)
- Aeon: El-Kalliny & Donaldson - Attached: 16/07/2021 (Mostafa El-Kalliny & Zoe R. Donaldson) (PID Note: What are We?732) (WebRef=10862)
→ From cradle to grave, we are soothed and rocked by attachments – our source of joy and pain, and the essence of who we are
- Aeon: Selterman - Your partner’s infidelity needn’t be a relationship catastrophe: 13/07/2021 (Dylan Selterman) (WebRef=10858)
- Aeon: Leslie - A good scrap: 12/07/2021 (Ian Leslie) (WebRef=10861)
→ Disagreements can be unpleasant, even offensive, but they are vital to human reason. Without them we remain in the dark
- Aeon: Casewell - A just and loving gaze: 09/07/2021 (Deborah Casewell) (WebRef=10833)
→ Simone Weil: mystic, philosopher, activist. Her ethics demand that we look beyond the personal and find the universal
- Aeon: Greenstein - When your principles are at stake, take inspiration from Job: 07/07/2021 (Edward L. Greenstein) (WebRef=10835)
- Aeon: Roache - Assertiveness is a virtue that anyone can develop with practice: 06/07/2021 (Rebecca Roache) (WebRef=10827)
- Aeon: Elvis - Riches in space: 02/07/2021 (Martin Elvis) (WebRef=10806)
→ Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration. We just need to mine those valuable resources – and duck a direct hit
- Aeon: Krishnamurthy - Democracy needs discomfort and distrust is a political virtue: 30/06/2021 (Meena Krishnamurthy) (WebRef=10808)
- Aeon: Vahtikari - Finns start life safe and sound with a baby box from the government: 29/06/2021 (Tanja Vahtikari) (WebRef=10800)
- Aeon: Queloz - Ideas that work: 24/06/2021 (Matthieu Queloz) (WebRef=10792)
→ Truth, knowledge, justice – to understand how our loftiest abstractions earn their keep, trace them to their practical origins
- Aeon: Abi-Rached - Frantz Fanon and the crisis of mental health in the Arab world: 23/06/2021 (Joelle M. Abi-Rached) (WebRef=10791)
- Aeon: Tager - Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet: 23/06/2021 (Alan Tager) (WebRef=10793)
- Aeon: Gruber - Against carceral feminism: 22/06/2021 (Aya Gruber) (WebRef=10784)
→ Feminists who see police and prisons as their natural allies are entrenching the sexism and racism they claim to oppose
- Aeon: Schroder - Set yourself free by developing a growth mindset toward anxiety: 22/06/2021 (Hans Schroder) (WebRef=10783)
- Aeon: Autry - Black beauty doesn’t have to be natural to be powerful and true: 21/06/2021 (Robyn Autry) (PID Note: Race733) (WebRef=10786)
- Aeon: Jones - On the necessity of obedience: 18/06/2021 (Tom Jones) (PID Note: Race734) (WebRef=10778)
→ George Berkeley was a visionary immaterialist. And a philosopher whose views on subordination to God legitimised slavery
- Aeon: Dresser - How to think about pleasure: 16/06/2021 (Sam Dresser) (WebRef=10776)
→ Weirdly hard to define, much less to feel OK about it, pleasure is a tricky creature. Can philosophy help us lighten up?
- Aeon: Taylor - Sometimes, paying attention means we see the world less clearly: 16/06/2021 (Henry Taylor) (WebRef=10775)
- Aeon: Marino - Pity is an emotion easy to scorn but central to our humanity: 15/06/2021 (Gordon Marino) (WebRef=10766)
- Aeon: Coleman - Radical acceptance: 14/06/2021 (Joshua Coleman) (WebRef=10770)
→ The painful feelings you avoid grow twisted in the dark. By facing your sorrows and struggles you can take back your life
- Aeon: Chatfield - How to think clearly: 09/06/2021 (Tom Chatfield) (WebRef=10731)
→ By learning to question and clarify your thoughts, you’ll improve your self-knowledge and become a better communicator
- Aeon: Jones - Hail the peacebuilders: 08/06/2021 (Tobias Jones) (WebRef=10733)
→ Conflicts only fully end when the delicate threads of peace have been steadily and quietly woven by ordinary, dedicated folk
- Aeon: LaFreniere - Worry is an unhelpful friend and a shoddy fortune-teller: 08/06/2021 (Lucas LaFreniere) (WebRef=10732)
- Aeon: Joshi - Dare to speak your mind and together we flourish: 07/06/2021 (Hrishikesh Joshi) (WebRef=10735)
- Aeon: Korn - Rewiring your life: 01/06/2021 (Deborah Korn) (WebRef=10691)
→ A radical therapy based on eye movements can desensitise painful memories, heal hurts and aid transformation at warp speed
- Aeon: Burnett - The fascinating science of pleasure goes way beyond dopamine: 31/05/2021 (Dean Burnett) (WebRef=10687)
- Aeon: Lagerlund - What Renaissance?: 31/05/2021 (Henrik Lagerlund) (WebRef=10686)
→ Humanism did not replace Scholasticism, nor is it clear that ideas like the Renaissance help us understand history at all
- Aeon: Wells - The unified Universe: 28/05/2021 (James Wells) (WebRef=10682)
→ Physics displays an uncanny alignment at its very deepest levels. Is a grand theory of everything finally within reach?
- Aeon: Dixon - Should we censor art?: 27/05/2021 (Daisy Dixon) (WebRef=10685)
→ Tearing down sexist paintings or racist monuments raises as many problems as it resolves. There’s a better way to combat hate
- Aeon: Callesen - How to stop overthinking: 26/05/2021 (Pia Callesen) (WebRef=10680)
→ Grappling with your thoughts will leave you even more entangled in worry. Use metacognitive strategies to break free
- Aeon: Melvin-Koushki - Magic helped us in pandemics before, and it can again: 26/05/2021 (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) (WebRef=10679)
- Aeon: Kohrt - We heal one another: 21/05/2021 (Brandon Kohrt) (WebRef=10665)
→ When a person is in distress, we can draw on deep, evolved mechanisms to calm the storm, through attention, touch and care
- Aeon: Wurgaft - Against public philosophy: 20/05/2021 (Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft) (WebRef=10668)
→ For Leo Strauss, public life was muddied by opinion and persecution, so philosophers should shield their work from view
- Aeon: Salmon - How to deconstruct the world: 19/05/2021 (Peter Salmon) (WebRef=10658)
→ Don’t believe everything you hear, read and watch. To puncture received ideas about culture, start thinking like Jacques Derrida
- Aeon: McManus - When you think of the Renaissance, think of Nagasaki, Goa and Oaxaca: 18/05/2021 (Stuart M. McManus) (WebRef=10660)
- Aeon: Gilligan - The clothing revolution: 13/05/2021 (Ian Gilligan) (PID Note: Evolution735) (WebRef=10655)
→ What if the need for fabric, not food, in the face of a changing climate is what first tipped humanity towards agriculture?
- Aeon: Kassam - I’m haunted by my night of vodka and reefers with the Taliban: 12/05/2021 (Sasha Kassam) (WebRef=10643)
- Aeon: Pang - Feeling fearful? Welcome to my world, and let me help you with it: 11/05/2021 (Camilla Pang) (WebRef=10646)
- Aeon: Mayyasi - To be more tech-savvy, borrow these strategies from the Amish: 10/05/2021 (Alex Mayyasi) (WebRef=10649)
- Aeon: Studebaker - How to be excellent: 05/05/2021 (Benjamin Studebaker) (WebRef=10624)
→ How to be excellent
Plato and Aristotle can help you resist conventional worldly success, direct your energy and find your own highest calling
- Aeon: Al-Rashid - Ancient Akkadian poems and medical texts reveal grief’s universals: 04/05/2021 (Moudhy Al-Rashid) (WebRef=10626)
- Aeon: Nijhuis - The miracle of the commons: 04/05/2021 (Michelle Nijhuis) (WebRef=10627)
→ Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight
- Aeon: Adelman - The patriot paradox: 29/04/2021 (Jeremy Adelman) (WebRef=10613)
→ Globalism is out. Nationalism is in. Progressives who think they can jump aboard are dangerously naïve
- Aeon: Abetz & Moore - It should be OK for parents to express regret about having children: 26/04/2021 (Jenna Abetz & Julia Moore) (WebRef=10606)
- Aeon: McDowell - Milton versus the mob: 26/04/2021 (Nicholas McDowell) (WebRef=10607)
→ He spoke truth to power and made heresy a virtue. Lessons on free speech and intellectual combat from John Milton
- Aeon: Angel - Shameful: 23/04/2021 (Katherine Angel) (WebRef=10597)
→ Women who write about their pain suffer a double shaming: once for getting injured, twice for their act of self-exposure
- Aeon: Winner - Changed by art: 22/04/2021 (Ellen Winner) (WebRef=10600)
→ Gazing at a painting feels like an almost magical encounter with another mind but what real effects does art have on us?
- Aeon: Fahsing - How to think like a detective: 21/04/2021 (Ivar Fahsing) (PID Note: Intelligence736) (WebRef=10589)
→ The best detectives seem to have almost supernatural insight, but their cognitive toolkit is one that anybody can use
- Aeon: Ben-Soussan - Spirituality is a brain state we can all reach, religious or not: 21/04/2021 (Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan) (PID Note: Religion737) (WebRef=10588)
- Aeon: Meng & Lenhard - Recognising the rhythm in addiction offers new ways to escape it: 14/04/2021 (Eana Meng & Johnnes Lenhard) (PID Note: Free Will738) (WebRef=10579)
- Aeon: Rawls - A philosophy of sound: 13/04/2021 (Christina Rawls) (WebRef=10570)
→ From the Big Bang to a heartbeat in utero, sounds are a scaffold for thought when logic and imagery elude us
- Aeon: Wong - You can train yourself to find disgusting things less gross: 13/04/2021 (Shiu Wong) (WebRef=10569)
- Aeon: Cleves - The case of Norman Douglas: 09/04/2021 (Rachel Hope Cleves) (WebRef=10561)
→ He was a literary lion and an infamous pederast: what might we learn from his life about monstrosity and humanity?
- Aeon: Napier - Safety is fatal: 08/04/2021 (David Napier) (PID Note: Narrative Identity739) (WebRef=10564)
→ Humans need closeness and belonging but any society that closes its gates is doomed to atrophy. How do we stay open?
- Aeon: Mocnik - History teachers are no longer just educators but trauma specialists: 07/04/2021 (Nina Mocnik) (WebRef=10563)
- Aeon: Zeman - When the mind is dark, making art is a thrilling way to see: 06/04/2021 (Adam Zeman) (PID Note: Psychopathology740) (WebRef=10555)
- Aeon: Gazipura - How to save yourself another pointless guilt trip: 31/03/2021 (Aziz Gazipura) (WebRef=10531)
→ Just because you feel guilty doesn’t mean you’ve done something wrong. Relax the rules you live by and set yourself free
- Aeon: Davis - When your authenticity is an act, something’s gone wrong: 31/03/2021 (Joseph E. Davis) (WebRef=10541)
- Aeon: McCabe - To find the truth, we must establish the meaning of falsehood: 30/03/2021 (Mary McCabe) (WebRef=10533)
- Aeon: Burn - In the deepest despair, electroconvulsive therapy offers hope: 29/03/2021 (Wendy Burn) (WebRef=10536)
- Aeon: O'Keeffe - Madame comrade: 29/03/2021 (Bridgid O'Keeffe) (WebRef=10537)
→ How Ivy Litvinov, the English-born wife of a Soviet ambassador, seduced America with wit, tea and soft diplomacy
- Aeon: Bergès - Vive Madame Roland!: 25/03/2021 (Sandrine Bergès) (WebRef=10526)
→ She was a French revolutionary and a politician’s wife. But Manon Roland should be remembered for her philosophical writings
- Aeon: Chwyl - Self-compassion is not self-indulgence: here’s how to try it: 24/03/2021 (Christina Chwyl) (WebRef=10525)
- Aeon: McNamara - Suicide in Medieval England was not simply a crime or sin: 24/03/2021 (Rebecca F. McNamara) (WebRef=10515)
- Aeon: Claussen - The politician is the malformed monster of our coexistence: 23/03/2021 (Emma Claussen) (WebRef=10517)
- Aeon: Foster - Not only the stranger: 22/03/2021 (Alicia Foster) (WebRef=10521)
→ Growing up in the shadow of a serial killer I came to understand that danger within a locked house might exceed that without
- Aeon: Brennen - What happens to our cognition in the darkest depths of winter?: 22/03/2021 (Tim Brennen) (WebRef=10520)
- Aeon: Sheff - Wilfrid Sellars, sensory experience and the ‘Myth of the Given’: 17/03/2021 (Nate Sheff) (WebRef=10499)
- Aeon: Gabriel - Myth and the mind: 15/03/2021 (Rami Gabriel) (WebRef=10495)
→ Saturated with rites and symbols, psychology feeds a deep human need once nourished by mythology
- Aeon: Scoones - What pastoralists know: 12/03/2021 (Ian Scoones) (WebRef=10457)
→ Pastoralists are experts in managing extreme variability. In a volatile world economy, bankers should learn how they do it
- Aeon: Schneider - The fence is uncomfortable, but it affords the best view: 10/03/2021 (Iris Schneider) (WebRef=10459)
- Aeon: Hampton - Bob Dylan turned American folk traditions into modern prophecy: 09/03/2021 (Timothy Hampton) (WebRef=10451)
- Aeon: Stasavage - Lessons from all democracies: 09/03/2021 (David Stasavage) (WebRef=10452)
→ Democracy is not a torch passed from ancient Athens but a globally common form of government with much to teach us today
- Aeon: Laursen - What secret and subversive writings from centuries ago say today: 08/03/2021 (John Christian Laursen) (WebRef=10454)
- Aeon: Beatty - Longhouse lockdown: 05/03/2021 (Andrew Beatty) (WebRef=10446)
→ On a regular cycle, the Nias islanders of Indonesia would retreat into enforced seclusion. What can we learn from them?
- Aeon: Dillinger - Rich witches: 01/03/2021 (Johannes Dillinger) (WebRef=10439)
→ How a flawed logic of economic scarcity and social climbing spurred witch hunts in early modern Germany
- Aeon: Bowe - How to speak in public: 24/02/2021 (John Bowe) (WebRef=10419)
→ Public speaking can feel like an ordeal, but take a lesson from the ancients: it’s a skill you can develop like any other
- Aeon: Wuest - The new genomics of sexuality moves us beyond ‘born this way’: 24/02/2021 (Joanna Wuest) (WebRef=10418)
- Aeon: Vasanthakumar - Exiles on Main Street: 23/02/2021 (Ashwini Vasanthakumar) (WebRef=10422)
→ To respect exiles as real and important political actors, we should get over casting them as saints, threats or victims
- Aeon: Owen - Reading John Gray in war: 22/02/2021 (Andy Owen) (WebRef=10415)
→ As a soldier, I was hard-wired to seek meaning and purpose. Gray’s philosophy helped me unhook from utopia and find peace
- Aeon: Harris - What might mushroom hunters teach the doctors of tomorrow?: 22/02/2021 (Anna Harris) (WebRef=10417)
- Aeon: McMullin - The right right thing to do: 19/02/2021 (Irene McMullin) (WebRef=10410)
→ The ethical life means being good to ourselves, to others, and to the world. But how do you choose if these demands compete?
- Aeon: Byerly - Why awesome natural beauty drops the jaw and lifts the spirit: 17/02/2021 (T. Ryan Byerly) (WebRef=10412)
- Aeon: Owen - Sprinkle a little ancient philosophy into your daily routines: 15/02/2021 (Joel Owen) (WebRef=10407)
- Aeon: Moberger - Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking: 09/02/2021 (Victor Moberger) (WebRef=10388)
- Aeon: Martin - How to be angry: 05/02/2021 (Ryan Martin) (WebRef=10374)
→ Anger is a fuel that’s dangerous when out of control. But managed well, it can energise you to identify and confront problems
- Aeon: Bulley - Prioritising the present doesn’t mean you lack willpower: 03/02/2021 (Adam Bulley) (WebRef=10380)
- Aeon: Coen - Scientists for the people: 01/02/2021 (Deborah R. Coen) (WebRef=10368)
→ Why the finest minds in 1930s Europe believed that scientists must engage with citizens or risk losing their moral compass
- Aeon: Boyd - The antidote to fake news is to nourish our epistemic wellbeing: 27/01/2021 (Kenneth Boyd) (WebRef=10338)
- Aeon: Feldman & Lindquist - What makes a woman’s body: 21/01/2021 (Mallory Feldman & Kristen Lindquist) (PID Note: Body741) (WebRef=10288)
→ A pang of hunger, a stab of pain, a sense of dread – these experiences emerge on the shore where biology and culture meet
- Aeon: Wimbush - The wisdom of surrender: 18/01/2021 (Andy Wimbush) (PID Note: Religion742) (WebRef=10284)
→ Samuel Beckett turned an obscure 17th-century Christian heresy into an artistic vision and an unusual personal philosophy
- Aeon: Durvasula - Turn off the gaslight: 15/01/2021 (Ramani Durvasula) (WebRef=10264)
→ The skilled manipulator casts a shadow of doubt over everything that you feel or think. Therapy can bring the daylight in
- Aeon: Putnam - The harms of gentrification: 14/01/2021 (Daniel Putnam) (WebRef=10266)
→ The exclusion of poorer people from their own neighbourhoods is not just a social problem but a philosophical one
- Aeon: Moreno-López - What the distinctive brains of resilient people can teach us: 13/01/2021 (Laura Moreno-López) (WebRef=10263)
- Aeon: Chau - Existential psychotherapy helped my students cope with chaos: 06/01/2021 (Ronald Chau) (PID Note: Psychology743) (WebRef=10230)
- Aeon: D'Angour - Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation: 06/01/2021 (Armand D'Angour) (WebRef=10231)
- Aeon: Kukis - Unrest in your backyard: 05/01/2021 (Mark Kukis) (WebRef=10225)
→ Rich nations with strong governments can no longer assume that political violence is a problem for other, poorer countries
- Aeon: Campbell - What the new science of narcissism says about narcissists: 04/01/2021 (W. Keith Campbell & Carolyn Crist) (PID Note: Psychology744) (WebRef=10227)
- Aeon: Naiman - In exile from the dreamscape: 24/12/2020 (Rubin Naiman) (WebRef=10216)
→ We live in a wake-centric world that devalues dreaming, yet we need to experience dreams to be our authentic selves
- Aeon: Reed - Why are there so few children’s books set in the suburbs?: 23/12/2020 (Philip Reed) (WebRef=10208)
- Aeon: Degroot - A lunar pandemic: 22/12/2020 (Dagomar Degroot) (WebRef=10211)
→ In the 1960s, NASA went to huge expense to contain possible pathogens from the Moon. What can we learn from the attempt?
- Aeon: Hardwick - Working, flirting and sex: courtship in 18th-century France: 21/12/2020 (Julie Hardwick) (WebRef=10213)
- Aeon: Satia - History from below: 18/12/2020 (Priya Satia) (WebRef=10191)
→ What shaped the thought of E P Thompson, the great historian of ordinary working people and champion of their significance?
- Aeon: Coleman - Estranged: 17/12/2020 (Joshua Coleman) (WebRef=10194)
→ When feeling good about ourselves matters more than filial duty, cutting off our parents comes to seem like a valid choice
- Aeon: Jarrett - How to let go of a lifelong dream: 16/12/2020 (Christian Jarrett) (WebRef=10197)
→ Adaptability is as much of a virtue as grit. Overcome any feelings of loss or failure by pivoting toward a new passion
- Aeon: Massazza - The climate emergency is taking a serious toll on mental health: 16/12/2020 (Alessandro Massazza) (WebRef=10193)
- Aeon: Zechariah - True gratitude is a communal emotion, not a wellness practice: 16/12/2020 (Michal Zechariah) (WebRef=10196)
- Aeon: Agar - On the moral obligation to stop shit-stirring: 15/12/2020 (Nicholas Agar) (WebRef=10199)
- Aeon: Parry - Broomstick weddings: 14/12/2020 (Tyler D. Parry) (WebRef=10202)
→ From Kentucky to Wales and all across the Atlantic, the enslaved and downtrodden got married – by leaping over a broom. Why?
- Aeon: Wisher - Cave Art: 11/12/2020 (Izzy Wisher) (WebRef=10186)
→ For Palaeolithic societies, art-making was both a tool for survival and a tactile, joyous exploration of the world
- Aeon: Harrington - How to plan a research project: 09/12/2020 (Brooke Harrington) (WebRef=10177)
- Aeon: Wooley - The language of love in a 12th-century English law book: 09/12/2020 (Meghan Wooley) (WebRef=10187)
- Aeon: Kikuchi - Eyes in the dark: 08/12/2020 (David Kikuchi) (PID Note: Animals745) (WebRef=10180)
- Aeon: Doolittle - Is the Earth an organism?: 03/12/2020 (W. Ford Doolittle) (WebRef=10163)
→ The Gaia hypothesis states that our biosphere is evolving. Once sceptical, some prominent biologists are beginning to agree
- Aeon: Keating - In Nyāya philosophy only some debates are worth having: 02/12/2020 (Malcolm Keating) (WebRef=10165)
- Aeon: Pattee - The months after I gave birth were the most creative of my life: 01/12/2020 (Emma Pattee) (PID Note: Pregnancy746) (WebRef=10157)
- Aeon: O'Toole - Zoom and gloom: 01/12/2020 (Robert O'Toole) (WebRef=10158)
→ Sitting in a videoconference is a uniformly crap experience. Instead of corroding our humanity, let’s design tools to enhance it
- Aeon: Cecire - Empire of fantasy: 30/11/2020 (Maria Sachiko Cecire) (WebRef=10155)
→ By conquering young minds, the writing of J R R Tolkien and C S Lewis worked to recapture a world that was swiftly ebbing away
- Aeon: Flack & Massey - All stars: 27/11/2020 (Jessica Flack & Cade Massey) (WebRef=10127)
→ Is a great team more than the sum of its players? Complexity science reveals the role of strategy, synergy, swarming and more
- Aeon: Letheby - Psychedelics show religion isn’t the only route to spirituality: 25/11/2020 (Chris Letheby) (WebRef=10123)
- Aeon: Scribner - Drunks and democrats: 23/11/2020 (Vaughn Scribner) (WebRef=10121)
→ Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America, embodying both its tumult and its promise
- Aeon: Strevens - Keep science irrational: 19/11/2020 (Michael Strevens) (WebRef=10110)
→ Is hard data the only path to scientific truth? That’s an absurd, illogical and profoundly useful fiction
- Aeon: Cropley - Recognise the creativity behind crime, then you can thwart it: 18/11/2020 (David Cropley) (WebRef=10112)
- Aeon: Dumitrescu - Get medieval on your haters: lessons from Beowulf and Chaucer: 17/11/2020 (Irina Dumitrescu) (WebRef=10104)
- Aeon: Rilling - The biology of dads: 17/11/2020 (James R. Rilling) (WebRef=10105)
→ The bodies and brains of fathers, not just mothers, are transformed through the love and labour of raising a child
- Aeon: Fine - Humanity at night: 16/11/2020 (Sarah Fine) (WebRef=10107)
→ A violinist plays in a concentration camp. A refugee carries a book of poetry. Art sustains us when survival is uncertain
- Aeon: Goldsmith - With charisma to spare: 12/11/2020 (John A. Goldsmith) (WebRef=10088)
→ Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist, was an iconic teacher eclipsed by his students, Freud and Husserl among them
- Aeon: Truschke - The living Mahabharata: 06/11/2020 (Audrey Truschke) (WebRef=10070)
→ Immorality, sexism, politics, war: the polychromatic Indian epic pulses with relevance to the present day
- Aeon: Kee - On the same wavelength: 05/11/2020 (Hayden Kee) (WebRef=10072)
→ The urge to align our minds and emotions with those we care for, whether they are near or far, makes our species unique
- Aeon: Byerly - How to know who’s trustworthy: 04/11/2020 (T. Ryan Byerly) (WebRef=10069)
→ Knotty problems call for sound advice. Use philosophy to find the intellectually dependable amid the frauds and egotists
- Aeon: Gray - In the chaos of raising a toddler there lies a path to nirvana: 02/11/2020 (Kurt Gray) (WebRef=10063)
- Aeon: Stewart - The subjective turn: 02/11/2020747
- Aeon: Evans - A spiritual emergency can be wild. This is how to ride the wave: 28/10/2020 (Jules Evans) (WebRef=10050)
- Aeon: Lawson - What it takes to run a book club for more than half a century: 27/10/2020 (Jill Lawson) (WebRef=10044)
- Aeon: Syson - The radical aristocrat who put kindness on a scientific footing: 26/10/2020 (Lydia Syson) (WebRef=10047)
- Aeon: Dunn - My sister, my mirror: 23/10/2020748
- Aeon: Boyce - How to nurture an orchid child: 21/10/2020 (Tom Boyce) (WebRef=10035)
→ Some kids, like orchids, are highly sensitive to their environment. Provide oodles of love and routine, then watch them bloom
- Aeon: Perullo - There is more to the experience of wine than its taste alone: 21/10/2020 (Nicola Perullo) (WebRef=10032)
- Aeon: Marzoni - Hate reads: 19/10/2020 (Andrew Marzoni) (WebRef=10027)
→ The Western canon has no shortage of fascists. But can the far-Right make ‘literature’ worthy of the name?
- Aeon: Hill - Where loneliness can lead: 16/10/2020 (Samantha Rose Hill) (WebRef=10010)
→ Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
- Aeon: Grossmann - The science of wisdom: 15/10/2020 (Igor Grossmann) (WebRef=10011)
→ Psychological science can now measure and nurture wisdom, superseding the speculations of philosophy and religion
- Aeon: Jern - Effective altruism is logical, but too unnatural to catch on: 13/10/2020 (Alan Jern) (WebRef=10004)
- Aeon: Kia - Persianate ‘adab’ involves far more than elegant manners: 12/10/2020 (Mana Kia) (WebRef=10007)
- Aeon: Marenbon - Why read Boethius today?: 09/10/2020 (Hohn Marenbon) (WebRef=9977)
→ Written while awaiting execution, the Consolation of Philosophy poses questions about human reason that remain urgent today
- Aeon: Weintraub - How to repair a family rift: 07/10/2020 (Pam Weintraub) (WebRef=9970)
→ Healing an estrangement can be deeply rewarding. Acknowledge your role in what happened, then look ahead to brighter days
- Aeon: Jeuk & Petrolini - You can’t unlearn, and that’s a challenge for teachers: 07/10/2020 (Alexander Jeuk & Valentina Petrolini) (WebRef=9968)
- Aeon: Townsend - Neither nasty nor brutish: 05/10/2020 (Cathryn Townsend) (WebRef=9974)
→ The Ik – among the poorest people on Earth – have been cast as exemplars of human selfishness. The truth is much more startling
- Aeon: Hopkin - Thirty glorious years: 02/10/2020 (Jonathan Hopkin) (WebRef=9963)
→ Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalist growth and democratic fairness. Is it possible to get it back?
- Aeon: Stephens, Ellis & Fuller - The deep Anthropocene: 01/10/2020 (Lucas Stephens, Erle Ellis & Dorian Fuller) (WebRef=9959)
→ A revolution in archaeology has exposed the extraordinary extent of human influence over our planet’s past and its future
- Aeon: Farman - How to wait well: 30/09/2020 (Jason Farman) (WebRef=9962)
→ Instead of fuming in subjugated irritation, turn wait times into chances to connect, muse and think big about the future
- Aeon: Baggini - In a pandemic we learn again what Sartre meant by being free: 30/09/2020 (Julian Baggini) (WebRef=9958)
- Aeon: Hanusiak - Music is a philosophy, rich in ideas that language cannot say: 30/09/2020 (Xenia Hanusiak) (WebRef=9961)
- Aeon: Syme & Hagen - Most anguish isn’t an illness but an evolved response to adversity: 29/09/2020 (Kristen Syme & Edward H. Hagen) (PID Note: Psychopathology749) (WebRef=9952)
- Aeon: Ashcroft - For Montaigne, verbal jousting is the only way to reach truth: 28/09/2020 (Rachel Ashcroft) (WebRef=9955)
- Aeon: Fraga - How parents are made: 28/09/2020 (Juli Fraga) (WebRef=9956)
→ Attachment therapy helps us recognise and heal our childhood wounds so we can be free to become good parents ourselves
- Aeon: Miller & Clark - The value of uncertainty: 25/09/2020 (Mark Miller & Andy Clark) (WebRef=9947)
→ In fiction, it grips us. In life, it can unravel us. How can brains hooked on certainty put its opposite to good use?
- Aeon: Alpert - Philosophy’s systemic racism: 24/09/2020 (Avram Alpert) (PID Note: Race750) (WebRef=9946)
→ It’s not just that Hegel and Rousseau were racists. Racism was baked into the very structure of their dialectical philosophy
- Aeon: McGrath - Freedom needs friction: lessons in choice from French history: 23/09/2020 (Larry S. McGrath) (PID Note: Free Will751) (WebRef=9942)
- Aeon: Savelle-Rocklin - How to stop emotional eating: 23/09/2020 (Nina Savelle-Rocklin) (WebRef=9943)
→ Whether compelled by an inner void, loneliness or boredom, psychoanalysis can help you understand why you seek comfort in food
- Aeon: Hassoun - What is a minimally good life and are you prepared to live it?: 21/09/2020 (Nicole Hassoun) (WebRef=9938)
- Aeon: Franco - How to make friends as an adult: 16/09/2020 (Marisa G. Franco) (WebRef=9931)
→ Friendships give us so much. Be bold, take the initiative, and you’ll be surprised how many people are pleased to connect
- Aeon: Bates - Life and breath: 15/09/2020 (Sarah Ruth Bates) (WebRef=9925)
→ There’s a strange, and deeply human, story behind how we taught machines to breathe for critically ill patients
- Aeon: Marino - The problem with love is deciding who’s doing the dishes: 14/09/2020 (Patricia Marino) (WebRef=9926)
- Aeon: Gibb - Weak links: 11/09/2020 (Michael Gibb) (WebRef=9889)
→ The idea of the ‘supply chain’ shackles how we think about economic justice. What forces could new metaphors unleash?
- Aeon: Stephenson & Surana - How to save money: 09/09/2020 (Kim Stephenson & Pradnya Surana) (WebRef=9908)
→ Aside from basic needs, your financial priorities are up to you. Resist short-termism by keeping in mind your values and goals
- Aeon: Grut - In a journey through time I’ve seen the past imprinted on the present: 08/09/2020 (Vicky Grut) (PID Note: Time752) (WebRef=9893)
- Aeon: Stan - On tact in dark times: 07/09/2020 (Corina Stan) (WebRef=9891)
→ Far from a social luxury, tact becomes imperative when life is cheapened. We exercise it to show gentle respect for another
- Aeon: Germano & Nicholls - To make online learning more three-dimensional, let it be bumpy: 07/09/2020 (William Germano & Kit Nicholls) (WebRef=9890)
- Aeon: Vernon - The four-fold imagination: 04/09/2020753
- Aeon: Veliz - Privacy is power: 02/09/2020 (Carissa Veliz) (WebRef=9922)
→ Don’t just give away your privacy to the likes of Google and Facebook – protect it, or you disempower us all
- Aeon: Eyal - How to be indistractable: 02/09/2020 (Nir Eyal) (WebRef=9903)
→ Stop blaming technology – distraction starts within. Manage your inner triggers to enjoy greater focus and a fuller life
- Aeon: Over - Recognising our common humanity might not be enough to prevent hatred: 02/09/2020 (Harriet Over) (WebRef=9902)
- Aeon: Hoffmann - Repetition and rupture: 01/09/2020754
- Aeon: Chung - To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’: 01/09/2020 (Julianne Chung) (WebRef=9888)
- Aeon: Green - Deluded, with reason: 31/08/2020 (Huw Green) (PID Note: Psychopathology755) (WebRef=9906)
→ Extraordinary beliefs don’t arise in a vacuum. They take root in minds confronted by unusual and traumatic experiences
- Aeon: Van Oyen - Accumulation and its discontents: 20/08/2020 (Astrid Van Oyen) (WebRef=9851)
→ Whether collecting, storing or hoarding, we’ve always had our issues with stuff – not least deciding what’s worth having
- Aeon: Greenburgh - Beliefs have a social purpose. Does this explain delusions?: 19/08/2020 (Anna Greenburgh) (WebRef=9850)
- Aeon: Woolard - Philosophy can explain what kind of achievement it is to give birth: 18/08/2020 (Fiona Woolard) (WebRef=9844)
- Aeon: Wade - Forgive and be free: 14/08/2020 (Nathaniel Wade) (WebRef=9753)
→ Hurts – your own or those done to you – keep you stuck. Forgiveness therapy can help you gain perspective and move on
- Aeon: Grinsell - The city is a lie: 30/07/2020 (Sam Grinsell) (WebRef=9715)
→ From Ancient Egypt’s deltas to Edinburgh’s crags and peaks, the city pushes back against the dream of human separateness
- Aeon: Mitchell - The billionaire curse: 27/07/2020 (Katharyne Mitchell) (WebRef=9712)
→ Philanthropy is vital – but its mechanisms are as intricate and troubling as the baroque structures of high finance
- Aeon: Stoller - The flexible work fallacy: 21/07/2020 (Sarah Stoller) (WebRef=9684)
→ Breaking free of the 9-to-5 was originally a feminist project. So how did it become part of oppressive 24/7 work culture?
- Aeon: De Brigard - Nostalgia reimagined: 20/07/2020 (Felipe De Brigard) (WebRef=9681)
→ Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too
- Aeon: Schamel - The self of self-help books is adrift from social and economic facts: 20/07/2020 (Craig Schamel) (PID Note: Self756) (WebRef=9682)
- Aeon: Tsakiris - Politics is visceral: 18/07/2020 (Manos Tsakiris) (WebRef=9933)
→ In an age thick with anger and fear, we might dream of a purely rational politics but it would be a denial of our humanity
- Aeon: Locke - How to raise a resilient child: 15/07/2020 (Judith Locke) (WebRef=9666)
→ Put that helicopter back in the hangar and let your children find their own way. Their independence will likely surprise you
- Aeon: Muri & Gobel - See faces in the clouds? It might be a sign of your creativity: 15/07/2020 (Rene Muri & Nicole Gobel) (WebRef=9663)
- Aeon: Gilby - Access to the arts is a human right, for prisoners as for students: 13/07/2020 (Emma Gilby) (WebRef=9671)
- Aeon: De Cruz - The necessity of awe: 10/07/2020 (Helen de Cruz) (WebRef=9624)
→ In awe we hold fast to nature’s strangeness and open up to the unknown. No wonder it’s central to the scientific imagination
- Aeon: Roeser - Emotions should be in the heart of complex political debates: 08/07/2020757
- Aeon: Jarrett - How to cope with a panic attack: 01/07/2020 (Christian Jarrett) (PID Note: Psychopathology758) (WebRef=9598)
→ A panic attack is a dramatic false alarm clanging in body and mind. Recognising this is the first step to dialling it down
- Aeon: Taylor - My synaesthesia is no mere quirk but a self-shaking strangeness: 29/06/2020 (Catherine Taylor) (WebRef=9602)
- Aeon: Barnes - The hysteria accusation: 26/06/2020 (Elizabeth Barnes) (PID Note: Psychopathology759) (WebRef=9589)
→ Women’s pain is often medically overlooked and undertreated. But the answer is not as simple as ‘believing all women’
- Aeon: Harel - Private gain, public loss: 22/06/2020 (Alon Harel) (WebRef=9581)
→ Putting public services in private hands is bad economics. Worse, it undermines our bonds as a political community
- Aeon: Russell - Why poor sleep can lead to self-harm and suicide at university: 22/06/2020 (Kirsten Russell & Donna Littlewood) (WebRef=9580)
- Aeon: McGrath - Could the art of ‘sashiko’ help to mend our frayed world?: 17/06/2020 (Melanie McGrath) (WebRef=9556)
- Aeon: Parker - Where did the grandeur go?: 04/06/2020 (Martin Parker) (WebRef=9503)
→ Superlative things were done in the past century by marshalling thousands of people in the service of a vision of the future
- Aeon: Whittaker - How to plan your novel: 03/06/2020 (Jason Whittaker) (WebRef=9506)
→ Inspiration rarely comes as a mysterious visitation from the muse. Far better to learn the techniques and habits of the craft
- Aeon: Hausman - The medicalised life: 02/06/2020 (Bernice L. Hausman) (WebRef=9497)
→ Why do so many see vaccines and other medical interventions as tools of social control rather than boons to health?
- Aeon: Jarrett - How to foster ‘shoshin’: 18/05/2020 (Christian Jarrett) (WebRef=9477)
→ It’s easy for the mind to become closed to new ideas. Cultivating a beginner’s mind helps us rediscover the joy of learning
- Aeon: Nielsen - Think of mental disorders as the mind’s ‘sticky tendencies’: 04/05/2020 (Kristopher Nielsen) (PID Note: Psychopathology760) (WebRef=9407)
- Aeon: Lord - We are nature: 28/04/2020 (Beth Lord) (WebRef=9381)
→ Spinoza helps diagnose the bad ideas and sad passions that preclude us from a finer relationship with the natural world
- Aeon: Philipsen - Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good: 24/04/2020 (Dick Philipsen) (WebRef=9368)
- Aeon: Jones - At times of suffering, the greatest gift is accompaniment by another: 17/04/2020 (Nicholaos Jones) (WebRef=9346)
- Aeon: Wolff - The lure of fascism: 14/04/2020 (Jonathan Wolff) (WebRef=9341)
→ Fascism promised radical national renewal and supreme power to the people. Are we in danger of a fascist revival today?
- Aeon: Di Nicola - Intimate strangers: 13/04/2020 (Vincenzo Di Nicola) (WebRef=9338)
→ By chance, I grew up without a father. As an adult, I chose to meet him. Through the prism of this event, life slowly made sense
- Aeon: Blunt - Sometimes the most powerful act of resistance is to do nothing: 30/03/2020 (Gwilym David Blunt) (WebRef=9294)
- Aeon: Hartley - My psychosis: 26/03/2020 (Tom Hartley) (WebRef=9287)
→ It was one terrifying, exciting night of delusions, hallucinations and paranoia. What would it teach a future psychologist?
- Aeon: Hecht - Human crap: 25/03/2020 (Gabrielle Hecht) (WebRef=9284)
→ We are demigods of discards – but our copious garbage became a toxic burden only with the modern cult of ‘disposability’
- Aeon: Michaels - Therapy that sticks