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Aeon Papers
(Work In Progress: output at 24/02/2021 17:24:31)
(For earlier versions of this Note, see the table at the end)
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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- None.
→ When present, these are recent items yet to be imported into the Aeon_Files table.
Items ReadClick on the Date for further information and (possibly) a commentary, and on the Title for the full paper on Aeon.
- Aeon: Video - How Big Tech betrayed us: 18/02/20213
- Aeon: West - Pause. Reflect. Think: 11/02/20214
- Aeon: Puchner - How a secret European language ‘made a rabbit’ and survived: 10/02/20215
- Aeon: Video - Who decides how long a second is?: 08/02/20216
- Aeon: Video - Nyctophobia: 02/02/20217
- Aeon: Video - Quantum fluctuations: 01/02/20218
- Aeon: Tasioulas - All in one: 29/01/20219
- Aeon: Wright - How to be a genius: 26/01/202110
- Aeon: Freamon - Gulf slave society: 22/01/202111
- Aeon: Video - The wolf dividing Norway: 21/01/202112
- Aeon: Frevert - The history of humiliation points to the future of human dignity: 20/01/202113
- Aeon: Video - The evolution of cynicism: 19/01/202114
- Aeon: Video - Kidnapper ants: 14/01/202115
- Aeon: Sykes - Sheanderthal: 12/01/202116
- Aeon: Video - Fukuzawa Yukichi in Europe: 05/01/202117
- Aeon: Video - In dog years: 24/12/202018
- Aeon: Romeo & Tewksbury - Plato in Sicily: 21/12/202019
- Aeon: Video - My name is Anik: 14/12/202020
- Aeon: Limburg - Am I disabled?: 10/12/202021
- Aeon: Video - Why are we so attached to our things?: 07/12/202022
- Aeon: Video - The sound of gravity: 03/12/202023
- Aeon: Video - Daily life in Egypt: ancient and modern: 01/12/202024
- Aeon: Video - Don't think twice: 26/11/202025
- Aeon: Klein - The rise of the bystander as a complicit historical actor: 11/11/202026
- Aeon: Muecke - What Aboriginal people know about the pathways of knowledge: 11/11/202027
- Aeon: Video - The five-minute museum: 09/11/202028
- Aeon: Video - Roger Penrose: Why did the universe begin?: 05/11/202029
- Aeon: Video - Palenque: 04/11/202030
- Aeon: Video - Visitors: 29/10/202031
- Aeon: Simpson - When is it ethical to vote for ‘the lesser of two evils’?: 28/10/202032
- Aeon: Video - De artificiali perspectiva, or anamorphosis: 27/10/202033
- Aeon: Watts - Fiddling while Rome converts: 27/10/202034
- Aeon: Video - The greatest Briton?: 22/10/202035
- Aeon: Ogden - Being eaten: 08/10/202036
- Aeon: Video - Newton's three-body problem: 29/09/202037
- Aeon: Nadler - When to break a rule: 29/09/202038
- Aeon: Hansen - Vikings in America: 22/09/202039
- Aeon: Dahl - Young children use reason, not gut feelings, to decide moral issues: 16/09/202040
- Aeon: Video - Is our attention for sale?: 15/09/202041
- Aeon: Elliot - Origin story: 08/09/202042
- Aeon: Hazrat - A history of punctuation: 03/09/202043
- Aeon: Video - Mary's Room: 03/09/202044
- Aeon: Flack & Mitchell - Uncertain times: 21/08/202045
- Aeon: Dresser - How to not fear your death: 19/08/202046
- Aeon: Video - The Fayum portraits: 17/08/202047
- Aeon: Duckworth - Catastrophes and calms: 13/08/202048
- Aeon: Copeland - DNA testing is easy. It can also turn your family upside down: 12/08/202049
- Aeon: McMaster - What rude jibes about Caesar tell us about sex in ancient Rome: 12/08/202050
- Aeon: Weidman - Do humans really have a killer instinct or is that just manly fancy?: 11/08/202051
- Aeon: Video - Susan Greenfield on neuronal assemblies: 11/08/202052
- Aeon: Townsend - How Aztecs told history: 10/08/202053
- Aeon: Video - Plato's alegory of the cave: 10/08/202054
- Aeon: Little & Backus - Confidence tricks: 07/08/202055
- Aeon: Press - Mummies among us: 06/08/202056
- Aeon: Video - Solos: 06/08/202057
- Aeon: Edison - True musical virtuosos are minimalists who put roll before rock: 05/08/202058
- Aeon: Video - The meaning of a monument: 04/08/202059
- Aeon: Dingemanse - The space between our heads: 04/08/202060
- Aeon: Video - Oppy: The life of a rover: 03/08/202061
- Aeon: Stonebridge - The plague novel you need to read is by Bachmann, not Camus: 03/08/202062
- Aeon: Mack - Big space: 31/07/202063
- Aeon: Video - All inclusive: 30/07/202064
- Aeon: Jarrett - How to read more books: 29/07/202065
- Aeon: MacLeod - In an unstable economy, I found freedom and security in sex work: 29/07/202066
- Aeon: Herz - Introverts are excluded unfairly in an extraverts’ world: 29/07/202067
- Aeon: Fine - Sexual dinosaurs: 28/07/202068
- Aeon: Video - Time-based currency by Robert Owen: 28/07/202069
- Aeon: Video - In the wake: 27/07/202070
- Aeon: Zucca - Much ado about uncertainty: how Shakespeare navigates doubt: 27/07/202071
- Aeon: Cooperrider - Hand to mouth: 24/07/202072
- Aeon: Ghosh - Counting China: 23/07/202073
- Aeon: Temkin - How to interpret historical analogies: 22/07/202074
- Aeon: Platts-Mills - On Matthew’s mind: 17/07/202075
- Aeon: Owen - The inward gaze: 16/07/202076
- Aeon: Davis - Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress: 14/07/202077
- Aeon: Daut - The king of Haiti’s dream: 14/07/202078
- Aeon: Davies - Here be black holes: 13/07/202079
- Aeon: Kim - From vice to crime: 09/07/202080
- Aeon: Video - Peter and Ben: 09/07/202081
- Aeon: Hughes - How to choose a bottle of wine: 08/07/202082
- Aeon: Summers - Why won’t the sin wash away? When thinking ethically goes awry: 08/07/202083
- Aeon: Video - The paradox of the ravens: 06/07/202084
- Aeon: Black - Unboxing mental health: 06/07/202085
- Aeon: Woodruff - The face of the fish: 03/07/202086
- Aeon: Kachru - Ashoka’s moral empire: 02/07/202087
- Aeon: Video - How we build perception from the inside out: 30/06/202088
- Aeon: Orent - Stealth infections: 30/06/202089
- Aeon: Agostini & Thrope - This is not the end. Apocalyptic comfort from ancient Iran: 30/06/202090
- Aeon: Video - Making music from brainwaves and heartbeats: 26/06/202091
- Aeon: Skibba - Does dark matter exist?: 25/06/202092
- Aeon: Frankish - Our greatest invention was the invention of invention itself: 24/06/202093
- Aeon: Dresser - Peak ellipsis: 23/06/202094
- Aeon: Video - The fist of modernity: 23/06/202095
- Aeon: Vince - Ancient yet cosmopolitan: 18/06/202096
- Aeon: Bowles - Learning Nahuatl, the flower song, and the poetics of life: 16/06/202097
- Aeon: Video - The secret history of the Moon: 16/06/202098
- Aeon: Sha - Neuroscience has much to learn from Hume’s philosophy of emotions: 15/06/202099
- Aeon: Studebaker - The ungoverned globe: 15/06/2020100
- Aeon: Dyzenhaus - Lawyer for the strongman: 12/06/2020101
- Aeon: Melechi - Beware of lateral thinking: 11/06/2020102
- Aeon: Foulkes - Ever taken pleasure in another’s pain? That’s ‘everyday sadism’: 10/06/2020103
- Aeon: Apperly - Gentileschi. Let us not allow sexual violence to define the artist: 10/06/2020104
- Aeon: Happe - Autistic people shouldn’t have to use ‘camouflage’ to fit in: 09/06/2020105
- Aeon: Ellis - From chaos to free will: 09/06/2020106
- Aeon: Vinocour - Criminally insane: 08/06/2020107
- Aeon: Horn - The history of the incubator makes a sideshow of mothering: 03/06/2020108
- Aeon: Hui - In praise of aphorisms: 01/06/2020109
- Aeon: Williams - The fight for ‘Anglo-Saxon’: 29/05/2020110
- Aeon: Wilson - The trolley problem problem: 28/05/2020111
- Aeon: Rees - The good scientist: 26/05/2020112
- Aeon: Russell - Vice dressed as virtue: 22/05/2020113
- Aeon: Nuttall - On gibberish: 21/05/2020114
- Aeon: Liu - Tea and capitalism: 19/05/2020115
- Aeon: Leppin - As the Ancient Greeks knew, frankness is an essential virtue: 18/05/2020116
- Aeon: Eden - Cigarette! Exquisite fiend, ephemeral friend, how I miss you: 18/05/2020117
- Aeon: Frohlich - Frames of consciousness: 18/05/2020118
- Aeon: Stinson - Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past: 15/05/2020119
- Aeon: Stegenga - Gentle medicine could radically transform medical practice: 13/05/2020120
- Aeon: Rees - Are there laws of history?: 12/05/2020121
- Aeon: Video - Detachment, objectivity, imagination: a critique: 08/05/2020122
- Aeon: Ferracioli - For a child, being carefree is intrinsic to a well-lived life: 08/05/2020123
- Aeon: Manion - Female husbands: 07/05/2020124
- Aeon: Ward - Sooner or later we all face death. Will a sense of meaning help us?: 06/05/2020125
- Aeon: Baggott - How science fails: 05/05/2020126
- Aeon: Video - Leonard Susskind - Why do we search for symmetry?: 01/05/2020127
- Aeon: Ellis - Philosophy cannot resolve the question ‘How should we live?’: 01/05/2020128
- Aeon: Video - Three ways to smell cancer: 29/04/2020129
- Aeon: Martinho-Truswell - We need highly formal rituals in order to make life more democratic: 29/04/2020130
- Aeon: Camporesi - It didn’t have to be this way: 27/04/2020131
- Aeon: Lopez-Cantero - Your love story is a narrative that gets written in tandem: 27/04/2020132
- Aeon: Video - Do I see what you see?: 22/04/2020133
- Aeon: Schoenfield - Why do you believe what you do? Run some diagnostics on it: 22/04/2020134
- Aeon: Krakauer - At the limits of thought: 20/04/2020135
- Aeon: Schechter - What we can learn about respect and identity from ‘plurals’: 20/04/2020136
- Aeon: Video - Test subjects: 17/04/2020137
- Aeon: Broks - Unholy anorexia: 16/04/2020138
- Aeon: Jones & Paris - How dystopian narratives can incite real-world radicalism: 15/04/2020139
- Aeon: Heneghan - Is there a limit to optimism when it comes to climate change?: 13/04/2020140
- Aeon: Levy-Eichel - I was homeschooled for eight years: here’s what I recommend: 10/04/2020141
- Aeon: Video - Ball - Understanding quantum entanglement: 10/04/2020142
- Aeon: Contera - Engines of life: 09/04/2020143
- Aeon: Nguyen - Time alone (chosen or not) can be a chance to hit the reset button: 08/04/2020144
- Aeon: Wellmon - The scholar’s vocation: 07/04/2020145
- Aeon: Bond - We are wayfinders: 06/04/2020146
- Aeon: Gordin - Identifying Einstein: 02/04/2020147
- Aeon: Video - 9at38: 01/04/2020148
- Aeon: Isaacs - Chemobrain is real. Here’s what to expect after cancer treatment: 01/04/2020149
- Aeon: Barwich - It’s hard to fool a nose: 30/03/2020150
- Aeon: Wojtowicz - If all our actions are shaped by luck, are we still agents?: 25/03/2020151
- Aeon: Video - Soft awareness: 25/03/2020152
- Aeon: Harlitz-Kern - To see the antisemitism of medieval bestiaries, look for the owl: 24/03/2020153
- Aeon: Parks & Manzotti - You are the world: 23/03/2020154
- Aeon: Video - Do you have imposter syndrome: 20/03/2020155
- Aeon: Ho - No patient is an island: 19/03/2020156
- Aeon: Dubal - Against humanity: 18/03/2020157
- Aeon: Mishra - Talent, you’re born with. Creativity, you can grow yourself: 18/03/2020158
- Aeon: Video - The solar do-nothing machine: 18/03/2020159
- Aeon: Rolston - Don’t take life so seriously: Montaigne’s lessons on the inner life: 17/03/2020160
- Imperial - Impact of NPIs to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand: 17/03/2020161
- Aeon: David - Patient, know thyself: how insight helps to treat psychosis: 16/03/2020162
- Aeon: Video - The researcher's article: 13/03/2020163
- Aeon: Hanna - Whose limb is it anyway? On the ethics of body-part disposal: 13/03/2020164
- Aeon: Hochman - Is ‘race’ modern?: 12/03/2020165
- Aeon: Mauch - Slow hope: 11/03/2020166
- Aeon: Cottingham - What is the soul if not a better version of ourselves?: 11/03/2020167
- Aeon: Jaarsma - Choose your own birth: 10/03/2020168
- Aeon: Gutmann - Testosterone is widely, and sometimes wildly, misunderstood: 10/03/2020169
- Aeon: Wu - Hypocognition is a censorship tool that mutes what we can feel: 09/03/2020170
- Aeon: Vandergheynst & Vonèche Cardia - Why lifelong learning is the international passport to success: 06/03/2020171
- Aeon: Morus - Supermensch: 05/03/2020172
- Aeon: Frances - The lure of ‘cool’ brain research is stifling psychotherapy: 04/03/2020173
- Aeon: Dashan - It is not you, but existence itself, that is fundamentally unsound: 02/03/2020174
- Aeon: Andrews & Monso - Rats are us: 02/03/2020175
- Aeon: Video - What is déjà vu?: 02/03/2020176
- Aeon: Video - Walk: 28/02/2020177
- Aeon: Video - Musical traumas: 27/02/2020178
- Aeon: Gertz - Nihilism: 27/02/2020179
- Aeon: Wayland-Smith - This ragged claw: 26/02/2020180
- Aeon: Robinson - Would you rather have a fish or know how to fish?: 26/02/2020181
- Aeon: Asma - Ancient animistic beliefs live on in our intimacy with tech: 25/02/2020182
- Aeon: Video - Chunyun: 25/02/2020183
- Aeon: Longworth - The ethics of speech acts: 25/02/2020184
- Aeon: Heneghan - A place of silence: 24/02/2020185
- Aeon: Video - A Jew walks into a bar (Defunct): 21/02/2020186
- Aeon: Tracy - Find something morally sickening? Take a ginger pill: 21/02/2020187
- Aeon: Evans - Perennial philosophy: 19/02/2020188
- Aeon: Green - A psychiatric diagnosis can be more than an unkind ‘label’: 18/02/2020189
- Aeon: Greenberg - This mortal coil: 12/02/2020190
- Aeon: Video - The hairy Nobel: 10/02/2020191
- Aeon: Kaufman - Neither person nor cadaver: 06/02/2020192
- Aeon: Video - The viral origins of the placenta: 04/02/2020193
- Aeon: Madison - Investigating Homo floresiensis and the myth of the ebu gogo: 03/02/2020194
- Aeon: Klein - The politics of logic: 03/02/2020195
- Aeon: Video - Norman, norman: 31/01/2020196
- Aeon: Video - The mushroom hunters: 30/01/2020197
- Aeon: Maskivker - Given how little effect you can have, is it rational to vote?: 29/01/2020198
- Aeon: Trivellato - The rumour about the Jews: 28/01/2020199
- Aeon: Thomas - Before, now, and next: 23/01/2020200
- Aeon: Green - Africa, in its fullness: 16/01/2020201
- Aeon: Paik - Robogamis are the real heirs of terminators and transformers: 10/01/2020202
- Aeon: Video - Wolf pack: 09/01/2020203
- Aeon: Lenz - The adversarial culture in philosophy does not serve the truth: 08/01/2020204
- Aeon: Sommer - Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences: 06/01/2020205
- Aeon: Video - Spinoza's 'Ethics' - what do you mean by 'God': 20/12/2019206
- Aeon: Isaac - Is artificial-womb technology a tool for women’s liberation?: 18/12/2019207
- Aeon: Video - Polyphonic Mozart: 17/12/2019208
- Aeon: Pigliucci - Consciousness is real: 16/12/2019209
- Aeon: Gross - How pottering about in the garden creates a time warp: 13/12/2019210
- Aeon: Lane - Rules or citizens?: 12/12/2019211
- Aeon: Lyons - Philosopher of the human: 10/12/2019212
- Aeon: Video - Mary Beard: women and power: 09/12/2019213
- Aeon: Egan - Is there anything especially expert about being a philosopher?: 06/12/2019214
- Aeon: Video - Julian Barbour: what is time?: 06/12/2019215
- Aeon: Video - The driver is red: 05/12/2019216
- Aeon: Labaree - Pluck versus luck: 04/12/2019217
- Aeon: Pogosyan - Why learning a new language is like an illicit love affair: 04/12/2019218
- Aeon: Sayare - Consider the axolotl: our great hope of regeneration?: 27/11/2019219
- Aeon: Hekman - Canine exceptionalism: 25/11/2019220
- Aeon: Video - Finkel - Cuneiform writing with Irving Finkel: 22/11/2019221
- Aeon: Jarrett - Trigger warnings don’t help people cope with distressing material: 22/11/2019222
- Aeon: McLeish - Science + religion: 21/11/2019223
- Aeon: Pyne - The planet is burning: 20/11/2019224
- Aeon: Stone - Thinking about one’s birth is as uncanny as thinking of death: 20/11/2019225
- Aeon: Matthews - What is to be done about the problem of creepy men?: 15/11/2019226
- Aeon: Video - Walter Lippmann - public opinion and propaganda: 14/11/2019227
- Aeon: Hall - Classics for the people: 13/11/2019228
- Aeon: Irish - The self in dementia is not lost, and can be reached with care: 13/11/2019229
- Aeon: Video - I came from the unknown to sing: 11/11/2019230
- Aeon: Degroot - Little Ice Age lessons: 11/11/2019231
- Aeon: Video - Do you think science can understand everything?: 08/11/2019232
- Aeon: Vernon - Divine transports: 07/11/2019233
- Aeon: Vallgarda - Keeping secrets: 06/11/2019234
- Aeon: Video - Donald Hoffman - The Case Against Reality: 05/11/2019235
- Aeon: Baillie - We all know that we will die, so why do we struggle to believe it?: 04/11/2019236
- Aeon: Demuth - Turn and live with animals: 29/10/2019237
- Aeon: Ward - Mistaken: 28/10/2019238
- Aeon: Video - Raymond Tallis - What is Extended Mind: 25/10/2019239
- Aeon: Sebens - What’s everything made of?: 24/10/2019240
- Aeon: Morell - What do mirror tests test?: 23/10/2019241
- Aeon: Video - Turns out that, even when Einstein was wrong, he was kind of right: 22/10/2019242
- Aeon: McAndrew - Houses of horror: 21/10/2019243
- Aeon: Video - Neurosymphony: 18/10/2019244
- Aeon: Burton - To make laziness work for you, put some effort into it: 11/10/2019245
- Aeon: Van der Horst - The Bible’s first critic: 09/10/2019246
- Aeon: Baggott - But is it science?: 07/10/2019247
- Aeon: Stark - My autism journey: how I learned to stop trying to fit in: 02/10/2019248
- Aeon: Frankish - The consciousness illusion: 26/09/2019249
- Aeon: Video - The Infamous Windmill Problem: 20/09/2019250
- Aeon: Spiegelhalter - Citizens need to know numbers: 16/09/2019251
- Aeon: Pariseau - How a scientific attempt to demystify Buddhist meditation yielded astounding results: 16/09/2019252
- Aeon: McLeish - Science is deeply imaginative: 13/09/2019253
- Aeon: Eagleman - Why time seems to fly as you get older: 13/09/2019254
- Aeon: Costandi - Against neurodiversity: 12/09/2019255
- Aeon: Mynott - Birds are ‘winged words’: 10/09/2019256
- Aeon: Video - Crannog: 09/09/2019257
- Aeon: Stern - The way words mean: 03/09/2019258
- Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality: 19/08/2019259
- Aeon: Video - ‘You wanna get rid of me?’ When the time comes to move mom into assisted living: 18/07/2019260
- Aeon: Victoria - Zen terror: 10/07/2019261
- Aeon: Pigliucci - Richard Feynman was wrong about beauty and truth in science: 28/06/2019262
- Aeon: Video - Hoplites! Greeks at war: 23/05/2019263
- Aeon: Pettinen - Will we ever know the difference between a wolf and a dog?: 29/04/2019264
- Aeon: Video - Devenir: 15/04/2019265
- Aeon: Video - How ISPs violate the laws of mathematics: 18/03/2019266
- Aeon: Pitock - Here’s to naps and snoozes: 12/03/2019267
- Aeon: Alter - How translation obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible: 27/02/2019268
- Aeon: Isbell - How seeing snakes in the grass helped primates to evolve: 05/02/2019269
- Aeon: Svoboda - The broad, ragged cut: 03/12/2018270
- Aeon: Mitchell - Wired that way: genes do shape behaviours but it’s complicated: 30/11/2018271
- Aeon: Chittka & Wilson - Bee-brained: 27/11/2018272
- Aeon: Baggott - What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’: 21/11/2018273
- Aeon: Baggini - Hume the humane: 15/08/2018274
- Aeon: Law - Do you see a duck or a rabbit: just what is aspect perception?: 31/07/2018275
- Aeon: Aronson & Duportail - The quantified heart: 12/07/2018276
- Aeon: Purcell - Life on the slippery Earth: 03/07/2018277
- Aeon: Callcut - What are we?: 11/06/2018278
- Aeon: Hall - Why read Aristotle today?: 29/05/2018279
- Aeon: Rachlin - Teleological behaviourism or what it means to imagine a lion: 25/05/2018280
- Aeon: Pierre - Die like a dog: 15/05/2018281
- Aeon: Whitmarsh - Black Achilles: 09/05/2018282
- Aeon: Kasmirli - What we say vs what we mean: what is conversational implicature?: 20/04/2018283
- Aeon: Pessoa - Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel: 13/04/2018284
- Aeon: Smithsimon - How to see race: 26/03/2018285
- Aeon: Temkin - What’s the best option?: 13/03/2018286
- Aeon: Robinson - Thus spake Albert: 12/03/2018287
- Aeon: Han - The copy is the original: 08/03/2018288
- Aeon: Olberding - The outsider: 06/03/2018289
- Aeon: Russell - Philosophical intuition: just what is ‘a priori’ justification?: 02/03/2018290
- Aeon: Rees - Animal agents: 26/02/2018291
- Aeon: Video - Why dogs have floppy ears: 23/02/2018292
- Aeon: Bier - The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory: 14/02/2018293
- Aeon: Video - The ladybug love-in: 13/02/2018294
- Aeon: Video - All what is somehow useful: 12/01/2018295
- Aeon: de Zavala - Why collective narcissists are so politically volatile: 12/01/2018296
- Aeon: Evans - The autism paradox: 08/01/2018297
- Aeon: Video - Are university admissions biased?: 08/12/2017298
- Aeon: Video - Confucian ancestor worship: 12/10/2017299
- Aeon: Video - Lan Yan: 08/09/2017300
- Aeon: Video - Birth of a bee: 31/07/2017301
- Aeon: Smith - For centuries European aristocrats proudly claimed foreign ancestry: 05/06/2017302
- Aeon: Video - Animated life: Pangea, Wegener and the continental drift: 24/04/2017303
- Aeon: Aamodt - On shared false memories: 15/02/2017304
- Aeon: Lemonick - Living in the now: 13/02/2017305
- Aeon: Colombo - Why children ask ‘Why?’ and what makes a good explanation: 01/02/2017306
- Aeon: Okoro - This is your morning: 19/01/2017307
- Aeon: Delistraty - Drugs du jour: 04/01/2017308
- Aeon: Video - Teaching Philosophy to Children: 15/12/2016309
- Aeon: Martinho-Truswell - The minds of other animals: 08/12/2016310
- Aeon: Video - Smith - Aristotle was wrong and so are we: there are far more than five senses: 01/11/2016311
- Aeon: Taylor - The examined life: 06/10/2016312
- Aeon: Brennan - The right to vote should be restricted to those with knowledge: 29/09/2016313
- Aeon: Video - Further - Seth Shostak: 23/09/2016314
- Aeon: Young & Priest - It is and it isn’t: 22/09/2016315
- Aeon: Video - Slingshots of the oceanic: 12/09/2016316
- Aeon: Potts - Charisma is a mysterious and dangerous gift: 03/08/2016317
- Aeon: Video - The ray-cat solution: 11/07/2016318
- Aeon: Stallard - The outsiders: 01/06/2016319
- Aeon: Root-Gutteridge - The songs of the wolves: 25/05/2016320
- Aeon: Bari - What do clothes say?: 19/05/2016321
- Aeon: Tesfaye - What amnesiacs tell us about memory: Q&A with Brenda Milner: 16/05/2016322
- Aeon: McGowan - Silicon phoenix: 02/05/2016323
- Aeon: Video - The need for a new bioethics: 02/05/2016324
- Aeon: Ojiaku - Is everybody a racist?: 21/03/2016325
- Aeon: George - How looting in Iraq unearthed the treasures of Gilgamesh: 05/02/2016326
- Aeon: Law - Belief in supernatural beings is totally natural – and false: 15/12/2015327
- Aeon: Barash - Paradigms lost: 27/10/2015328
- Aeon: Video - The Feynman Series - Beauty: 23/10/2015329
- Aeon: Video - What really happens when we talk: 12/10/2015330
- Aeon: Video - Dabbawalla: 01/10/2015331
- Aeon: Video - The Big Bang: 09/09/2015332
- Aeon: Malchik - The end of walking: 20/08/2015333
- Aeon: Frisch - Why things happen: 23/06/2015334
- Aeon: Video - The truffle hunters: 02/06/2015335
- Aeon: Video - The death of Socrates: 12/05/2015336
- Aeon: Video - Epigenome - the symphony in your cells: 24/03/2015337
- Aeon: Video - The German who came to tea: 23/12/2014338
- Aeon: Video - Creo: 04/12/2014339
- Aeon: Hanlon - The golden quarter: 03/12/2014340
- Aeon: Video - X-Ray Man: 14/11/2014341
- Aeon: Video - My favorite picture of you: 08/10/2014342
- Aeon: Talbot - The good death: 25/09/2014343
- Aeon: Video - Internet archive: 28/08/2014344
- Aeon: Francis - Is this life real?: 21/01/2014345
- Aeon: Flyn - Last supper: 24/12/2013346
- Aeon: Keim - I, cockroach: 19/11/2013347
- Aeon: Gregg - Keep smiling: 05/11/2013348
- Aeon: Gray - The play deficit: 18/09/2013349
- Aeon: Rowlands - A right to believe?: 20/05/2013350
- Aeon: Kohn - The Neanderthal mind: 15/05/2013351
- Aeon: Gamble - The end of sleep?: 10/04/2013352
- Aeon: Blum - The white man Jesus: 08/04/2013353
- Aeon: Davis - Trickster and tricked: 18/01/2013354
- Aeon: Kohn - Us and them: 10/01/2013355
- Aeon: Vedral - What life wants: 27/11/2012356
- Aeon: Hanlon - World next door: 06/11/2012357
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- Aeon: Video - Kachalka: 17/02/2021 (WebRef=10409)
→ A gym built of Soviet-era scraps is a creative community hub - 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: 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: Kaur - Brand India: 18/02/2021 (Ravinder Kaur) (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) (WebRef=10402)
- Aeon: Schaefer - If you stay mentally well your entire life, you’re not normal: 16/02/2021 (Jonathan D. Schaefer) (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: Owen - Sprinkle a little ancient philosophy into your daily routines: 15/02/2021 (Joel Owen) (WebRef=10407)
- Aeon: Bostrom - How vulnerable is the world?: 12/02/2021 (Nick Bostrom & Matthew van der Merwe) (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: Sunar - I have no mind’s eye - let me try to describe it for you: 10/02/2021 (Neesa Sunar) (WebRef=10386)
- Aeon: Moberger - Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking: 09/02/2021 (Victor Moberger) (WebRef=10388)
- Aeon: Davidann - The myth of Westernisation: 09/02/2021 (Jon Davidann) (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) (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: Religion358) (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: Bulley - Prioritising the present doesn’t mean you lack willpower: 03/02/2021 (Adam Bulley) (WebRef=10380)
- Aeon: Marino - They are prisoners: 02/02/2021 (Lori Marino) (WebRef=10370)
→ Captive orcas are tormented by boredom and family separation, but they cannot be simply released. What’s the solution? - 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: McCallum - The tyranny of work: 28/01/2021 (Jamie McCallum) (WebRef=10347)
→ Jobs have become, for so many, a relentless, unsatisfying toil. Why then does the work ethic still hold so much sway? - Aeon: Boyd - The antidote to fake news is to nourish our epistemic wellbeing: 27/01/2021 (Kenneth Boyd) (WebRef=10338)
- Aeon: Wold & Bohme - Technology promises hugs at a distance. Beware what you wish for: 25/01/2021 (Andrew Wold & Rebecca Bohme) (PID Note: Transhumanism359) (WebRef=10344)
- Aeon: Fridman - The problem with prediction: 25/01/2021 (Joseph Fridman) (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) (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 Kinds360) (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) (WebRef=10280)
- Aeon: Kinney - The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune: 18/01/2021 (David Kinney) (WebRef=10283)
- Aeon: Uribe - To be a responsible citizen today, it is not enough to be reasonable: 12/01/2021 (Francisco Mejia Uribe) (WebRef=10259)
- Aeon: Laland & Chiu - Evolution’s engineers: 11/01/2021 (Kevin Laland & Lynn Chiu) (PID Note: Evolution361) (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: Self362) (WebRef=10261)
- Aeon: Fischer - The problem of now: 08/01/2021 (John Martin Fischer) (PID Note: Time363) (WebRef=10229)
→ The injunction to immerse yourself in the present might be psychologically potent, but is it metaphysically meaningful? - 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: Law - The necessity of Kripke: 04/01/2021 (Stephen Law) (PID Note: Modality364) (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: 23/12/2020 (Nana Ariel) (WebRef=10217)
- 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: 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: Cox - When does a human embryo have the moral status of a person?: 09/12/2020 (David Cox) (WebRef=10176)
- Aeon: Gandy - Altered states can help us face death with serenity and levity: 08/12/2020 (Sam Gandy) (WebRef=10179)
- Aeon: Neumann & Kaufman - Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?: 07/12/2020 (Craig Neumann & Scott Barry Kaufman) (WebRef=10182)
- Aeon: Nixon - The body as mediator: 07/12/2020 (Dan Nixon) (PID Note: Body365) (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) (WebRef=10167)
→ Even when enslaved or despised, captives brought novel ideas and technologies to the societies of their captors - 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: Yon - It’s not necessarily deluded to feel in control when you’re not: 02/12/2020 (Daniel Yon) (WebRef=10162)
- 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: Matějčková - How Emil Utitz salvaged his humanity in a non-human world: 30/11/2020 (Teresa Matějčková) (WebRef=10160)
- Aeon: Autry - Sociology’s race problem: 26/11/2020 (Robyn Autry) (PID Note: Race366) (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) (WebRef=10124)
- Aeon: de Vignemont & Klein - How close is too close?: 24/11/2020 (Frederique de Vignemont & Colin Klein) (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) (WebRef=10120)
- Aeon: Kacar - Do we send the goo?: 20/11/2020 (Betül Kaçar) (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: 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: Ball - Life with purpose: 13/11/2020 (Philip Ball) (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) (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) (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: 04/11/2020367
- Aeon: Waltner-Toews - The wisdom of pandemics: 03/11/2020 (David Waltner-Toews) (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 Transfer368) (WebRef=10061)
- Aeon: Crucianelli - The need to touch: 26/10/2020 (Laura Crucianelli) (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 Identity369) (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: Memory370) (WebRef=10026)
- Aeon: Levin & Dennett - Cognition all the way down: 13/10/2020 (Michael Levin & Daniel Dennett) (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) (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) (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: Consciousness371) (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) (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 Rights372) (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: Lachmann & Walker - Life ≠ alive: 24/06/2019373
- Aeon: Chappell & Lawford-Smith - Transgender: a dialogue: 15/11/2018 (Sophie Grace Chappell & Holly Lawford-Smith) (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: Cooperrider - Gesture talks: 14/05/2018 (Kensey Cooperrider) (WebRef=9706)
→ Across vast cultural divides people can understand one another through gesture. Does that make it a universal language? - Aeon: Danaher - Embracing the robot: 19/03/2018 (John Danaher) (PID Note: Transhumanism374) (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?: 22/01/2018 (Thomas Metzinger) (WebRef=9107)
→ Given how little control we have of our wandering minds, how can we cultivate real mental autonomy? - Aeon: Rowland - We are multitudes: 11/01/2018375
- Aeon: Krishna - How not to be a chucklehead: 23/11/2016 (Nakul Krishna) (WebRef=10401)
→ Saturday mornings with J L Austin in postwar Oxford were a golden time for wordplay, silly jokes and serious philosophy - Aeon: Ratner-Rosenhagen - The lost hope of self-help: 23/02/2016 (Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen) (WebRef=10188)
→ Habits – good or bad – were once a matter of ethical seriousness. Are they now just another technology of self-absorption? - Aeon: Evans - Real talk: 04/12/2014 (Vyvyan Evans) (WebRef=9854)
→ For decades, the idea of a language instinct has dominated linguistics. It is simple, powerful and completely wrong - Aeon: Graziano - The first smile: 13/08/2014 (Michael Graziano) (WebRef=9370)
→ Why do laughter, smiles and tears look so similar? Perhaps because they all evolved from a single root
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- 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 Property376) (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: Evolution377) (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: 19/10/2020378
- Aeon: Video - Giant Steps: 13/10/2020 (PID Note: Psychopathology379) (WebRef=10003)
→ Step into synaesthesia’s visual soundscape, built with the music of John Coltrane - Aeon: Video - Mary Beard: Women in power: 01/10/2020380
- Aeon: Video - The physarum experiments: 21/09/2020 (PID Note: Life381) (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: Animals382) (WebRef=9904)
→ Cape sundews move, react and attack in a way that seems more animal than plant - 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: Memory383) (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: 02/08/2019384
- 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: 20/05/2019385
- 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 Will386) (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: 20/11/2018387
- Aeon: Video - Want a whole new body? Ask this flatworm how: 15/11/2018 (PID Note: Animals388) (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: 30/07/2018389
- 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: Brain390) (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: Self391) (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: Transhumanism392) (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 Travel393) (WebRef=4115)
- 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 - 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 Will394) (WebRef=8200)
- Aeon: Video - The man who turned paper into pixels: 09/03/2015395
- 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: Transhumanism396) (WebRef=8523)
→ Welcome to a world of existential threats, philosophers and clever robots - Aeon: Byerly - Why awesome natural beauty drops the jaw and lifts the spirit: 17/02/2021 (T. Ryan Byerly) (WebRef=10412)
- 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: Feldman & Lindquist - What makes a woman’s body: 21/01/2021 (Mallory Feldman & Kristen Lindquist) (PID Note: Body397) (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: Religion398) (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: Psychology399) (WebRef=10230)
- Aeon: D'Angour - Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation: 06/01/2021 (Armand D'Angour) (WebRef=10231)
- Aeon: Campbell - What the new science of narcissism says about narcissists: 04/01/2021 (W. Keith Campbell & Carolyn Crist) (PID Note: Psychology400) (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: 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: Kikuchi - Eyes in the dark: 08/12/2020 (David Kikuchi) (PID Note: Animals401) (WebRef=10180)
- Aeon: Pattee - The months after I gave birth were the most creative of my life: 01/12/2020 (Emma Pattee) (PID Note: Pregnancy402) (WebRef=10157)
- 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: 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: 02/11/2020403
- 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: 23/10/2020404
- 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: Psychopathology405) (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: Race406) (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 Will407) (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: Time408) (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: 04/09/2020409
- 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: 01/09/2020410
- 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: Psychopathology411) (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: Self412) (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: 08/07/2020413
- Aeon: Jarrett - How to cope with a panic attack: 01/07/2020 (Christian Jarrett) (PID Note: Psychopathology414) (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: Psychopathology415) (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: Psychopathology416) (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: 24/03/2020 (Linda Michaels) (WebRef=9282)
→ Quick-fix psychotherapies have been hailed as the gold standard. But depth therapies can be far more enduring and profound - Aeon: Jackson - A vision for agriculture: 17/03/2020 (Randall D. Jackson) (WebRef=9256)
→ We know how to replace toxic, intensive livestock raising with beautiful, efficient grasslands. Do we have the will? - Aeon: Ashenden & Hess - The theorist of belonging: 16/03/2020 (Samantha Ashenden & Andreas Hess) (WebRef=9253)
→ Judith Shklar fled Nazis and Stalinism before discovering in African-American history the dilemma of modern liberalism - Aeon: Gross - Traumatised by the cure: 03/03/2020 (Lisa Gross) (WebRef=9229)
→ Survivors of life-threatening illness can be left in profound fear and distress. Are they suffering from a form of PTSD? - Aeon: Lombardi - Marcus Aurelius helped me survive grief and rebuild my life: 28/02/2020 (Jamie Lombardi) (WebRef=9209)
- Aeon: Brundage - American torture: 20/02/2020 (William Fitzhugh Brundage) (WebRef=9184)
→ For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism - Aeon: Burton - Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom: 14/02/2020 (Neel Burton) (WebRef=9171)
- Aeon: Simon - What Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy can offer in the Anthropocene: 11/02/2020 (Ed Simon) (WebRef=9161)
- Aeon: Lussier - The dark shadow in the injunction to ‘do what you love’: 07/02/2020 (Kira Lussier) (WebRef=9148)
- Aeon: Nissen-Lie - Humility and self-doubt are hallmarks of a good therapist: 05/02/2020 (Helene A. Nissen-Lie) (WebRef=9136)
- Aeon: Ivanhoe - How Confucius loses face in China’s new surveillance regime: 17/01/2020 (Philip Ivanhoe) (WebRef=8921)
- Aeon: Callcut - Death by design: 14/01/2020 (Daniel Callcut) (WebRef=8849)
→ We can chose how we live – why not how we leave? A free society should allow dying to be more deliberate and imaginative - Aeon: Maier - Making up stuff: 13/01/2020 (Emar Maier) (WebRef=8837)
→ A novel, by definition, tells a fictional story – but does that make its author a liar? On the space between stories and lies - Aeon: Powell - Fate of the Universe: 07/01/2020 (Corey S. Powell) (WebRef=8771)
→ Are we part of a dying reality or a blip in eternity? The value of the Hubble Constant could tell us which terror awaits - Aeon: Rowson - Concentrate!: 06/01/2020 (Jonathan Rowson) (WebRef=8770)
→ The challenge of chess – learning how to hold complexity in mind and still make good decisions – is also the challenge of life - Aeon: Ruse - The meaning to life? A Darwinian existentialist has his answers: 25/10/2019 (Michael Ruse) (WebRef=8058)
- Aeon: Vandenberg - City on mute: 03/10/2019 (Kathleen Vandenberg) (WebRef=9430)
→ When you stare at your phone or use Uber to navigate your neighbourhood, you flatten the rich texture of urban life - Aeon: Leavens - The pointing ape: 01/10/2019 (David Leavens) (PID Note: Animals417) (WebRef=7961)
- Aeon: Mitchell - Sex on the brain: 25/09/2019418
- Aeon: Rothfels - Prison, spectacle, refuge: 19/09/2019 (Nigel T. Rothfels) (WebRef=7971)
→ Modern zoos are proud of their contribution to animal conservation but will always be haunted by their histories - Aeon: Watts, Gandy & Evans - The whole-planet view: 17/09/2019 (Rosalind Watts, Sam Gandy & Alex Evans) (WebRef=10285)
→ Psychedelics offer a sense of expansive connectedness, just like astronauts have felt looking back to Earth from space - Aeon: Carroll - Splitting the Universe: 11/09/2019 (Sean M. Carroll) (WebRef=7870)
- Aeon: LeDoux - Can our self-conscious minds save us from our selfish selves?: 04/09/2019 (Joseph LeDoux) (PID Note: Self419) (WebRef=7877)
- Aeon: Asma - United by feelings: 22/08/2019 (Stephen Asma) (WebRef=7886)
→ Universal emotions are the deep engine of human consciousness and the basis of our profound affinity with other animals - Aeon: Slavov - No absolute time: 21/08/2019 (Matias Slavov) (PID Note: Time420) (WebRef=7875)
- Aeon: Mackay - Eros at play: 20/08/2019 (Jamie Mackay) (WebRef=10126)
→ Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi are far more stimulating than modern pornography - Aeon: Rippon - Pink and blue tsunami: 19/08/2019 (Gina Rippon) (WebRef=7887)
→ From tutus to trucks, parents are often struck by the gendered choices made by their children. Could these be ‘hardwired’? - Aeon: Everett - The American Aristotle: 15/08/2019 (Daniel Everett) (WebRef=7885)
→ Charles Sanders Peirce was a brilliant philosopher, mathematician and scientist. His polymathic work should be better known - Aeon: Ogden - Debunking debunked: 12/08/2019 (Emily Ogden) (WebRef=7893)
- Aeon: Egan - Can you step in the same river twice? Wittgenstein v Heraclitus: 09/08/2019 (David Egan) (PID Note: Wittgenstein421) (WebRef=7898)
- Aeon: Robson - Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser: 07/08/2019 (David Robson) (WebRef=7902)
- Aeon: Farr - The ABC of time: 29/07/2019 (Matt Farr) (PID Note: Time422) (WebRef=8004)
- Aeon: Ratnayake - The problem of mindfulness: 25/07/2019 (Sahanika Ratnayake) (PID Note: Buddhism423) (WebRef=8001)
→ Mindfulness promotes itself as value-neutral but it is loaded with (troubling) assumptions about the self and the cosmos - Aeon: Kaila - Contrapuntal consciousness: 24/07/2019 (Ilaria Kaila) (WebRef=8007)
→ The music of Bach is full of suggestive structures of counterpoint and recursion (even if Hofstadter got it quite wrong) - Aeon: Mecking - Against ‘natural’ parenting: 23/07/2019 (Olga Mecking) (WebRef=8010)
→ We’re opportunistic, inventive and flexible animals, and there is no ‘natural’ or ‘right’ way to bring up our children - Aeon: Parks - Impossible choices: 15/07/2019 (Tim Parks) (WebRef=8005)
→ Learning from his family, his animals and his work with tribal people, Gregory Bateson saw the creative potential of paradox - Aeon: Mizrahi - How ad hominem arguments can demolish appeals to authority: 10/07/2019 (Moti Mizrahi) (WebRef=8026)
- Aeon: Stewart - Social physics: 09/07/2019 (Ian Stewart) (WebRef=8076)
→ Despite the vagaries of free will and circumstance, human behaviour in bulk is far more predictable than we like to imagine - Aeon: Reese - Animals do have memories, and can help us crack Alzheimer’s: 25/06/2019 (April Reese) (WebRef=8119)
- Aeon: Arikha - The interoceptive turn: 17/06/2019424
- Aeon: Montgomery - For the hate of dogs: 10/06/2019 (Sy Montgomery) (PID Note: Animals425) (WebRef=8147)
- Aeon: Papineau - Knowledge is crude: 03/06/2019 (David Papineau) (WebRef=8139)
- Aeon: Mitchell - How do you teach a car that a snowman won’t walk across the road?: 31/05/2019 (Melanie Mitchell) (PID Note: Transhumanism426) (WebRef=8162)
- Aeon: Press - Who really owns the past?: 27/05/2019 (Michael Press) (WebRef=8170)
- Aeon: Thagard - Green-eyed pets: 22/05/2019 (Paul Thagard) (PID Note: Animals427) (WebRef=8182)
- Aeon: Basu - To avoid moral failure, don’t see people as Sherlock does: 22/05/2019 (Rima Basu) (WebRef=8183)
- Aeon: Kemp - Civilisational collapse has a bright past – but a dark future: 21/05/2019 (Luke Kemp) (WebRef=8186)
- Aeon: Calcutt - If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then?: 17/05/2019 (Daniel Callcut) (WebRef=8192)
- Aeon: Smith - If reason exists without deliberation, it cannot be uniquely human: 15/05/2019 (Justin E.H. Smith) (WebRef=8196)
- Aeon: Maxwell - Natural philosophy redux: 13/05/2019 (Nicholas Maxwell) (WebRef=8210)
- Aeon: Marino - Eating someone: 08/05/2019 (Lori Marino) (PID Note: Animal Rights428) (WebRef=8216)
- Aeon: Kosmin - A revolution in time: 07/05/2019 (Paul J. Kosmin) (PID Note: Time429) (WebRef=7880)
- Aeon: Hedstrom - Why streaming kids according to ability is a terrible idea: 03/05/2019 (Oscar Hedstrom) (WebRef=8232)
- Aeon: Hannam - Atoms and flat-Earth ethics: 29/04/2019 (James Hannam) (WebRef=8239)
- Aeon: Basl & Schwitzgebel - AIs should have the same ethical protections as animals: 26/04/2019 (Eric Schwitzgebel) (WebRef=8252)
- Aeon: Holmes - Seeing the quantum: 24/04/2019 (Rebecca Holmes) (WebRef=8233)
- Aeon: Heyes - Cognitive gadgets: 17/04/2019 (Cecilia M. Heyes) (WebRef=8272)
- Aeon: Harnett - The birth of the book: on Christians, Romans and the codex: 15/04/2019 (Benjamin Harnett) (WebRef=8254)
- Aeon: Lande - Do you compute?: 11/04/2019 (Kevin Lande) (WebRef=8279)
- Aeon: Pennells - Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of ageing?: 10/04/2019 (Jordan Pennells) (PID Note: Death430) (WebRef=7878)
- Aeon: Lysaker - Philosophical writing should read like a letter: 09/04/2019 (John Lysaker) (WebRef=8283)
- Aeon: Tracy - How much can we afford to forget, if we train machines to remember?: 08/04/2019 (Gene Tracy) (WebRef=8265)
- Aeon: Lau - Is consciousness a battle between your beliefs and perceptions?: 03/04/2019 (Hakwan Lau) (WebRef=8298)
- Aeon: D'Angour - Was the real Socrates more worldly and amorous than we knew?: 02/04/2019 (Armand D'Angour) (WebRef=8299)
- Aeon: Anttila - A philosophical approach to routines can illuminate who we really are: 27/03/2019 (Elias Anttila) (WebRef=8310)
- Aeon: Gallagher - Swastikas on the Strand: 27/03/2019 (Catherine Gallagher) (WebRef=8294)
- Aeon: Rogan - Know-how: 25/03/2019 (Tim Rogan) (WebRef=8314)
→ Market systems have made better use of more information than economic planners. What if AI and machine learning changed that? - Aeon: Boddington - Moral technology: 21/03/2019 (Paula Boddington) (WebRef=8320)
- Aeon: Godfrey-Smith - Australian philosophy: 19/03/2019 (Peter Godfrey-Smith) (WebRef=8305)
- Aeon: Zohny - We aren’t really in control so why worry about neurointerventions?: 18/03/2019 (Hazem Zohny) (PID Note: Free Will431) (WebRef=8308)
- Aeon: van der Horst - How the poor became blessed: 14/03/2019 (Pieter van der Horst) (WebRef=8610)
→ Greco-Roman gods had no interest in the poor nor was organised charity a religious duty. How was Christianity different? - Aeon: Sykes - The Neanderthal renaissance: 13/03/2019 (Rebecca Wragg Sykes) (PID Note: Evolution432) (WebRef=8244)
→ Handprints on a cave wall, crumbs from a meal: the new science of Neanderthals radically recasts the meaning of humanity - Aeon: Hendrick - The growth mindset problem: 11/03/2019 (Carl Hendrick) (WebRef=8318)
→ A generation of schoolchildren is being exhorted to believe in their brain’s elasticity. Does it really help them learn? - Aeon: Jarrett - Do you have a self-actualised personality? Maslow revisited: 05/03/2019 (Christian Jarrett) (PID Note: Personality433) (WebRef=7884)
- Aeon: Climenhaga - The concept of probability is not as simple as you think: 26/02/2019 (Nevin Climenhaga) (PID Note: Probability434) (WebRef=7879)
- Aeon: Kaag - Why the demoniac stayed in his comfortable corner of hell: 25/02/2019 (John Kaag) (WebRef=8345)
- Aeon: Fernandes - The future seems wide open with possibilities – but is it?: 22/02/2019 (Alison Fernandes) (WebRef=8349)
- Aeon: Helle - Between gods and animals: becoming human in the Gilgamesh epic: 19/02/2019 (Sophus Helle) (PID Note: Human Beings435) (WebRef=8355)
- Aeon: Garfinkel - How the body and mind talk to one another to understand the world: 15/02/2019 (Sarah Garfinkel) (WebRef=8351)
- Aeon: Morton - Engines of democracy: 13/02/2019 (Jennifer M. Morton) (WebRef=8364)
→ Society will be much improved by loosening the stranglehold of top universities on the education of elites. But how? - Aeon: Hoffmeier - The first God: 12/02/2019 (James K. Hoffmeier) (WebRef=8350)
→ Out of the many gods of ancient Egypt an inspired Pharaoh created a monotheistic faith. What was Atenism and why did it fail? - Aeon: Kasmirli - Tools for thinking: Isaiah Berlin’s two concepts of freedom: 11/02/2019 (Maria Kasmirli) (WebRef=8370)
- Aeon: Kapoor - Misbehaving: being clever and wicked is a form of creativity: 08/02/2019 (Hansika Kapoor) (WebRef=8376)
- Aeon: Stein - The why of reality: 07/02/2019 (Nathanael Stein) (WebRef=8377)
→ What makes a dinosaur real, but a unicorn unreal? Does philosophy even pretend to know how to answer a child’s questions? - Aeon: LaViers - Sure, it can backflip – but can a robot hold down a desk job?: 04/02/2019 (Amy LaViers) (PID Note: Transhumanism436) (WebRef=8382)
- Aeon: Massimi - Getting it right: 28/01/2019 (Michela Massimi) (WebRef=8394)
→ Truth is neither absolute nor timeless. But the pursuit of truth remains at the heart of the scientific endeavour - Aeon: Tobia - Legal standards invoke the ‘reasonable person’. Who is it?: 25/01/2019 (Kevin Patrick Tobia) (PID Note: Person437) (WebRef=8397)
- Aeon: Javanaud - Buddhism and self-deception: 24/01/2019 (Kate Javanaud) (WebRef=8387)
→ How can I logically manage to deceive myself? Buddhist thought offers a way out of the philosophical paradox - Aeon: Misak - Philosophy must be useful: 23/01/2019 (Cheryl Misak) (WebRef=8407)
→ For Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, much of philosophy was mere nonsense. Then came Frank Ramsey’s pragmatic alternative - Aeon: Brown - Philosophy can make the previously unthinkable thinkable: 18/01/2019 (Rebecca Brown) (WebRef=8406)
- Aeon: Browning - As Xenophon saw it: 10/01/2019 (Eve Browning) (WebRef=8433)
→ Brilliant leader, kind horseman and friend of Socrates: Xenophon’s writings inspire a humane, practical approach to life - Aeon: Rubin - How the Latin East contributed to a unique cultural world: 09/01/2019 (Jonathan Rubin) (WebRef=8436)
- Aeon: Frank, Gleiser & Thompson - The blind spot: 08/01/2019 (Adam Frank, Marcello Gleiser & Evan Thompson) (WebRef=8416)
→ It’s tempting to think science gives a God’s-eye view of reality. But we forget the place of human experience at our peril - Aeon: Wichmann - Why languages and dialects really are different animals: 08/01/2019 (Soren Wichmann) (WebRef=8438)
- Aeon: Lyon - Slaying the Snark: what nonsense verse tells us about reality: 03/01/2019 (Nina Lyon) (WebRef=8446)
- Aeon: Law - Wittgenstein and religion: 03/01/2019 (Stephen Law) (PID Note: Wittgenstein438) (WebRef=8431)
→ In the case atheists vs religious belief, Ludwig Wittgenstein is called to the stand. Whose side does his testimony serve? - Aeon: Sinnott-Armstrong - Reach out, listen, be patient. Good arguments can stop extremism: 19/12/2018 (Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) (WebRef=8227)
- Aeon: Labaree - Gold among the dross: 18/12/2018 (David Labaree) (WebRef=8484)
→ Academic research in the US is unplanned, exploitative and driven by a lust for glory. The result is the envy of the world - Aeon: Geroulanos & Meyers - The maimed and the healing: 13/12/2018 (Stefanos Geroulanos & Todd Meyers) (WebRef=8495)
→ The casualties of the First World War brought a new understanding of human fragility and wholeness - Aeon: Calcutt - Against moral sainthood: 12/12/2018439
- Aeon: Gordon - An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have: 11/12/2018 (Deborah M. Gordon) (PID Note: Memory440) (WebRef=7963)
- Aeon: Frankish - Death is no leveller if some live much longer than others: 10/12/2018 (Keith Frankish) (PID Note: Transhumanism441) (WebRef=8501)
- Aeon: McLaughlin & Erard - Creating some slack: 10/12/2018 (Misty McLaughlin & Michael Erard) (WebRef=8226)
→ A household is a miniature ecosystem with inputs, outputs and flows: thinking like this can make life a whole lot better - Aeon: Greene - Who decides what words mean: 06/12/2018 (Lane Greene) (WebRef=8493)
- Aeon: Jarrett - The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology: 05/12/2018 (Christian Jarrett) (WebRef=8496)
- Aeon: Frith & Frith - Make up your mind(s)!: 21/11/2018 (Christopher D. Frith & Uta Frith) (WebRef=8536)
→ A pair of cognitive scientists, married for half a century, explain why two argumentative heads can be better than one - Aeon: Furedi - Fearing fear itself: 20/11/2018 (Frank Furedi) (WebRef=8537)
→ Once parents felt children needed a little fear to grow up well. Today they are desperately protective. What went wrong? - Aeon: Finn - Beyond reason: the mathematical equation for unconditional love: 19/11/2018 (Suki Finn) (WebRef=8541)
- Aeon: Lloyd - Why the Enlightenment was not the age of reason: 16/11/2018 (Henry Martyn Lloyd) (WebRef=8291)
- Aeon: Cornwell - AlphaGolem: 14/11/2018 (John Cornwell) (WebRef=8549)
→ When we pit ourselves against machines, the game can only end in tears. It is in our gift to imagine another way - Aeon: Parks - The great disillusionist: 13/11/2018 (Tim Parks) (WebRef=8534)
→ In an age when so many people are at a loss to give life meaning and direction, Giacomo Leopardi is essential reading - Aeon: Forber & Smead - Punishment isn’t about the common good: it’s about spite: 09/11/2018 (Patrick Forber & Rory Smead) (WebRef=8558)
- Aeon: Milam - The hunt for human nature: 08/11/2018 (Erika Lorraine Milam) (WebRef=8560)
→ We still live in the long shadow of Man-the-Hunter: a midcentury theory of human origins soaked in strife and violence - Aeon: Baggini - Why sexist and racist philosophers might still be admirable: 07/11/2018 (Julian Baggini) (WebRef=8563)
- Aeon: Simon - My odious handiwork: Frankenstein is about art, not science: 06/11/2018 (Ed Simon) (WebRef=8565)
- Aeon: Uribe - Believing without evidence is always morally wrong: 05/11/2018 (Francisco Mejia Uribe) (WebRef=8547)
- Aeon: Lawrence - A history of monsters: 31/10/2018 (Natalie Lawrence) (WebRef=8559)
→ Monsters once inhabited the mysterious fringes of the known world. In our human-dominated present, can they still be found? - Aeon: Stern - How materialism became an ethos of hope for Jewish reformers: 30/10/2018 (Eliyahu Stern) (WebRef=8587)
- Aeon: Harper - Titles, medals and ribbons: 29/10/2018 (Tobias Harper) (WebRef=8589)
→ The British honours system has outlived the Empire it was designed to foster. Does it have a role in the world today? - Aeon: Ramirez - It’s dangerous to think virtual reality is an empathy machine: 26/10/2018 (Erick Ramirez) (WebRef=8597)
- Aeon: Ross - The elephant as a person: 24/10/2018 (Don Ross) (PID Note: Person442) (WebRef=7894)
→ Elephants might have the necessary capacities for personhood – we just need to help them acquire the cognitive scaffolding - Aeon: van der Horst - Pagans against Genesis: 22/10/2018 (Pieter van der Horst) (WebRef=8605)
→ Confused, inferior and philosophically unsound: the Greco-Roman critique of the Old Testament could have been written today - Aeon: Halpern - Time after time: 18/10/2018 (Paul Halpern) (WebRef=8598)
→ The question of whether time moves in a loop or a line has occupied human minds for millennia. Has physics found the answer? - Aeon: Fry - Calculating art: 16/10/2018443
- Aeon: Kappel - There is no middle ground for deep disagreements about facts: 15/10/2018 (Klemens Kappel) (WebRef=8620)
- Aeon: Levin - Proof of life: how would we recognise an alien if we saw one?: 10/10/2018 (Samuel Levin) (WebRef=8627)
- Aeon: Zubovich - Evangelicals bring the votes, Catholics bring the brains: 09/10/2018 (Gene Zubovich) (WebRef=8629)
- Aeon: Botting - Godmother of intelligences: 03/10/2018 (Eileen Hunt Botting) (WebRef=8640)
→ Mary Shelley foresaw that artificial intelligence would be made monstrous, not by human hubris but by human cruelty - Aeon: Wengrow - A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments: 02/10/2018 (David Wengrow) (WebRef=8642)
- 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: Goodman - Decorum is an unfashionable word but it has a radical core: 28/09/2018 (Rob Goodman) (WebRef=8648)
- Aeon: Hummel - Christian Zionism: 26/09/2018 (Dan Hummel) (WebRef=8653)
→ It’s one of the most successful, and in some ways unlikely, interfaith movements in the modern world - Aeon: Skillings - I, holobiont. Are you and your microbes a community or a single entity?: 26/09/2018 (Derek J. Skillings) (WebRef=8654)
- Aeon: Vernon - The say of the land: 25/09/2018 (Mark Vernon) (WebRef=8636)
→ Is language produced by the mind? Romantic theory has it otherwise: words emerge from the cosmos, expressing its soul - Aeon: Avigad - Principia: 24/09/2018 (Jeremy Avigad) (WebRef=8657)
→ Is it possible that, in the new millennium, the mathematical method is no longer fundamental to philosophy? - Aeon: Barash - Anthropic arrogance: 18/09/2018 (David P. Barash) (WebRef=8678)
→ Claims that the Universe is designed for humans raise far more troubling questions than they can possibly answer - Aeon: Hickson - How a Huguenot philosopher realised that atheists could be virtuous: 18/09/2018 (Michael W. Hickson) (WebRef=8679)
- Aeon: Jaekl - The inner voice: 13/09/2018 (Philip Jaekl) (WebRef=8685)
→ From a very early age, children learn to talk to themselves. That voice in your head is the thing that makes you, you - Aeon: Brewer - Slavery-entangled philosophy: 12/09/2018444
- Aeon: Baggini - Is there any real distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ pleasures?: 11/09/2018 (Julian Baggini) (WebRef=8689)
- Aeon: Shafir - Forging Islamic science: 11/09/2018 (Nir Shafir) (WebRef=8671)
→ Fake miniatures depicting Islamic science have found their way into the most august of libraries and history books. How? - Aeon: Huenemann - More than ‘know thyself’: on all the other Delphic maxims: 07/09/2018 (Charles Huenemann) (WebRef=8695)
- Aeon: Dihal - Can we understand other minds? Novels and stories say: no: 05/09/2018 (Kanta Dihal) (WebRef=8697)
- Aeon: Sagar - On going on and on and on: 03/09/2018 (Paul Sagar) (WebRef=8684)
→ The fantasy of living forever is just a fig leaf for the fear of death – and comes at great personal cost - Aeon: Sun & Popescu - What would it take to build a tower as high as outer space?: 24/08/2018 (Sean Sun & Dan Popescu) (WebRef=8707)
- Aeon: May - Autism from the inside: 22/08/2018 (Katherine May) (WebRef=8732)
→ Too many depictions of autistic people rely on tired clichés. The neurotypical world needs to take note of our own voices - Aeon: Atkins - Why it’s only science that can answer all the big questions: 21/08/2018 (Peter Atkins) (WebRef=8729)
- Aeon: Riskin - Alive and ticking: 20/08/2018 (Jessica Riskin) (WebRef=8727)
→ The idea that nature is a humming, complex, clockwork machine has been around for centuries. Is it due for a revival? - Aeon: Seto - When will I be me? Why a sense of authenticity takes its time: 20/08/2018 (Elizabeth Seto) (WebRef=8726)
- Aeon: Wilbanks - If we made life in a lab, would we understand it differently?: 17/08/2018 (Rebecca Wilbanks) (WebRef=8722)
- Aeon: Colasacco - Is religion a universal in human culture or an academic invention?: 14/08/2018 (Brett Colasacco) (WebRef=8738)
- Aeon: Hales - The unreality of luck: 14/08/2018 (Steven D. Hales) (WebRef=8739)
→ Optimists believe in good luck, pessimists in bad. But if it’s all a matter of perspective, does luck even exist? - Aeon: Boden - Robot says: Whatever: 13/08/2018 (Margaret Boden) (WebRef=8737)
→ What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have needs, cravings or desires - Aeon: Nadler - We have an ethical obligation to relieve individual animal suffering: 10/08/2018 (Steven Nadler) (WebRef=8745)
- Aeon: Humphreys - Out of nowhere: 09/08/2018 (Paul W. Humphreys) (WebRef=8751)
→ Does everything in the world boil down to basic units – or can emergence explain how distinctive new things arise? - Aeon: Aydin - What is the Muslim world?: 01/08/2018 (Cemil Aydin) (WebRef=8776)
→ Islamists and Western pundits speak of ‘the West’ and ‘the Muslim world’ but such tribalism is dangerous colonial propaganda - Aeon: Arikha - How evil happens: 30/07/2018 (Noga Arikha) (WebRef=8746)
→ Why some people choose to do evil remains a puzzle, but are we starting to understand how this behaviour is triggered? - Aeon: Frohlich - Down with the larks: on the virtues of sleeping like a sloth: 27/07/2018 (Joel Frohlich) (WebRef=8791)
- Aeon: Tenner - The blitzscaling illusion: 26/07/2018 (Edward Tenner) (WebRef=8789)
→ All the great inventions took painstaking, risky, indirect routes to fruition. Has Silicon Valley really escaped history? - Aeon: Cowles - Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us: 24/07/2018 (Henry M. Cowles) (WebRef=8638)
- Aeon: Burton - The theory of mind myth: 23/07/2018 (Robert A. Burton) (WebRef=8779)
→ Even experts can’t predict violence or suicide. Surely we’re kidding ourselves that we can see inside the minds of others - Aeon: Falck - Why cosmology without philosophy is like a ship without a hull: 23/07/2018 (Bridget Falck) (WebRef=8506)
- Aeon: Jaffer - In extremis: 20/07/2018 (Armin W. Schultz) (WebRef=8803)
- Aeon: Shane - The AI revolution will be led by toasters, not droids: 18/07/2018 (Janelle Shane) (WebRef=8800)
- Aeon: Hossenfelder - Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, and other lies of physics: 11/07/2018 (Sabine Hossenfelder) (WebRef=7985)
- Aeon: Delistraty - On coincidence: 10/07/2018 (Cody Delistraty) (WebRef=8822)
→ Lightning can strike twice and people do call just when you’re thinking of them – but are such coincidences meaningful? - Aeon: Cave - Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again: 09/07/2018 (Christine Cave) (WebRef=8460)
- Aeon: Erard - The deep roots of writing: 06/07/2018 (Michael Erard) (WebRef=8819)
→ Was writing invented for accounting and administration or did it evolve from religious movements, sorcery and dreams? - Aeon: Felin - The fallacy of obviousness: 05/07/2018 (Teppo Felin) (WebRef=8453)
→ A new interpretation of a classic psychology experiment will change your view of perception, judgment – even human nature - Aeon: Crawley - Black. Queer. Born again: 02/07/2018 (Ashon Crawley) (WebRef=8813)
→ Black life is world-making, born of gaps and dislocations, imaginative leavings and returns, generative escapes and arrivals - Aeon: Schwenkler - Should you shield yourself from others’ abhorrent beliefs?: 02/07/2018 (John Schwenkler) (WebRef=8812)
- Aeon: Bindel - Prostitution is slavery: 26/06/2018445
- Aeon: Ciaunica & Charlton - When the self slips: 21/06/2018 (Anna Ciaunica & Jane Charlton) (WebRef=8846)
→ Individuals living with depersonalisation disorder bring vivid insight to the question of whether the self is an illusion - Aeon: Guesgen - Animal pain is about communication, not just feeling: 15/06/2018 (Mirjam Guesgen) (WebRef=8858)
- Aeon: Kaposy - More people should choose to have children with Down syndrome: 11/06/2018 (Chris Kaposy) (WebRef=8871)
- Aeon: Dahl - You’re simply not that big a deal: now isn’t that a relief?: 08/06/2018 (Melissa Dahl) (PID Note: Self446) (WebRef=8190)
- Aeon: Scharf - What if ET is an AI?: 07/06/2018 (Caleb Scharf) (PID Note: Transhumanism447) (WebRef=8347)
- Aeon: Wilson - Eugenics never went away: 05/06/2018 (Robert A. Wilson) (WebRef=8866)
→ Thought eugenics died with the Nazis? Think again: the eugenic programme of sterilising the ‘unfit’ continues even today - Aeon: Mecking - Raising a multilingual family is hard – what makes it work?: 30/05/2018 (Olga Mecking) (WebRef=8881)
- Aeon: Maor - The chords of the Universe: 30/05/2018 (Eli Maor) (WebRef=8882)
→ It’s no surprise that mathematics has influenced music. But did you know that the influence goes both ways? - Aeon: Krieger - To get a grip on altruism, see humans as molecules: 29/05/2018 (Ski Krieger) (WebRef=8879)
- Aeon: Rutjens - What makes people distrust science? Surprisingly, not politics: 28/05/2018 (Bastiaan T. Rutjens) (WebRef=8802)
- Aeon: Charney - Is it really a Leonardo?: 23/05/2018 (Noah Charney) (WebRef=8906)
→ Forensics can’t be sure. Provenance can be fudged. This is why the expert eye still rules the game of art authentication - Aeon: Hulsman - Delphic priestesses were the world’s first political risk consultants: 22/05/2018 (John C. Hulsman) (WebRef=8900)
- Aeon: de Bres - Is philosophy absurd? Only when you’re doing it right: 21/05/2018 (Helena de Bres) (WebRef=8907)
- Aeon: Nail - Is nature continuous or discrete? How the atomist error was born: 18/05/2018 (Thomas Nail) (WebRef=8909)
- Aeon: DeNicola - You don’t have a right to believe whatever you want to: 14/05/2018 (Daniel DeNicola) (WebRef=8373)
- Aeon: Wright - What is nirvana?: 10/05/2018 (Robert Wright) (PID Note: Buddhism448) (WebRef=8919)
- Aeon: Jasanov - The cerebral mystique: 08/05/2018 (Alan Jasanov) (WebRef=8916)
→ Neuroscience gives us invaluable, wondrous knowledge about the brain – including an awareness of its limitations - Aeon: Al-Mosaiwi - The danger of absolute thinking is absolutely clear: 02/05/2018 (Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi) (WebRef=8834)
- Aeon: Wykstra - Out of the armchair: 01/05/2018 (Stephen Wykstra) (WebRef=8928)
→ A growing number of philosophers are conducting experiments to test their arguments. Is this the future for philosophy? - Aeon: Setiya - Philosophers should be keener to talk about the meaning of life: 27/04/2018 (Kieran Setiya) (WebRef=8941)
- Aeon: Petrov - Communist robot dreams: 26/04/2018 (Victor Petrov) (WebRef=8939)
→ Tech flourished in communist Bulgaria and so did a body of science fiction asking vital philosophical questions - Aeon: Cleary & Pigliucci - Human nature matters: 25/04/2018 (Skye C. Cleary & Massimo Pigliucci) (WebRef=8470)
→ The only way to construct a robust philosophy for life is to have a clear and realistic picture of what makes humans tick - Aeon: White - What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil?: 23/04/2018449
- Aeon: Hay - Not your Tibetan Buddhism: 19/04/2018 (Mark Hay) (PID Note: Buddhism450) (WebRef=8953)
→ Behind the beatific image of Tibetan Buddhism lies a dark, complicated reality. But is it one the Western gaze wants to see? - Aeon: Schilthuizen - Evolving street-smarts: 18/04/2018 (Menno Schilthuizen) (WebRef=8951)
→ Living among humans favours fearless problem-solvers interested in new things. That’s how city birds get smarter - Aeon: Chambers - Against marriage: 17/04/2018 (Clare Chambers) (WebRef=8472)
→ Marriage is what happens when the state gets involved in endorsing and regulating personal relationships. It’s a bad idea - Aeon: Weintraub - Haunted by history: 16/04/2018 (Pam Weintraub) (WebRef=8948)
→ War, famine and persecution inflict profound changes on bodies and brains. Could these changes persist over generations? - Aeon: Imhoff - Want to feel unique? Believe in the reptile people: 16/04/2018 (Roland Imhoff) (WebRef=8947)
- Aeon: Schellenberg - Philosophy’s first steps: 10/04/2018 (J. L. Schellenberg) (WebRef=8963)
→ Science asks and answers its big questions, so why is philosophy taking its time? Because it’s only just getting started - Aeon: Phillips - Why symmetry gets really interesting when it is broken: 10/04/2018 (Anthony Phillips) (WebRef=8414)
- Aeon: Harrison - ‘I believe because it is absurd’: Christianity’s first meme: 09/04/2018 (Peter Harrison) (WebRef=8962)
- Aeon: Nguyen - Escape the echo chamber: 09/04/2018 (C. Thi Nguyen) (WebRef=8955)
→ First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult - Aeon: Becker - What is good science?: 05/04/2018 (Adam Becker) (WebRef=8984)
→ Demanding that a theory is falsifiable or observable, without any subtlety, will hold science back. We need madcap ideas - Aeon: Singler - Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay: 03/04/2018 (Beth Singler) (WebRef=8979)
- Aeon: Macaro - Is meditating on death like putting on a fur coat in summer?: 30/03/2018 (Antonia Macaro) (WebRef=9002)
- Aeon: Hills - Does my algorithm have a mental-health problem?: 26/03/2018 (Thomas T. Hills) (WebRef=8991)
- Aeon: Abagis - How brain stimulation can boost memory if paired with learning: 21/03/2018 (Tessa Abagis) (WebRef=9017)
- Aeon: St John - The spirit molecule: 20/03/2018 (Graham St John) (WebRef=9015)
→ The theory that the brain produces its own psychedelic compound provokes pop-culture enthusiasm and scientific controversy - Aeon: Hand - If we disagree about morality, how can we teach it?: 16/03/2018 (Michael Hand) (WebRef=9035)
- Aeon: Roosth - The shape of life: 15/03/2018 (Sophia Roosth) (WebRef=9033)
→ The ancient Earth was profoundly alien. How do we distinguish between the living and non-living in the fossil record? - Aeon: Origgi - Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now: 14/03/2018 (Gloria Origgi) (WebRef=8449)
- Aeon: Reynolds - May the odds be ever in your favour? The politics of prognosis: 05/03/2018 (Joel Michael Reynolds) (WebRef=9041)
- Aeon: Di Nicola - Slow Thought: a manifesto: 27/02/2018 (Vincenzo Di Nicola) (WebRef=8173)
→ We need a philosophy of Slow Thought to ease thinking into a more playful and porous dialogue about what it means to live - Aeon: Vold - Are ‘you’ just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you?: 26/02/2018 (Karina Vold) (PID Note: Transhumanism451) (WebRef=7872)
- Aeon: Mance - Algorithmic wilderness: 22/02/2018 (Henry Mance) (WebRef=9072)
→ Robo-bees and drone-seeded forests: can technology mend our broken relationship with the natural world? - Aeon: Chopra - The usefulness of dread: 21/02/2018 (Samir Chopra) (WebRef=9070)
→ My anxiety has been lifelong but I would not wish it away. It has made me the philosopher – and person – that I am today - Aeon: Seybold - Confidence tricks: 19/02/2018 (Matt Seybold) (WebRef=9064)
→ The financial world is a theatrical production, abundantly lubricated by that magical elixir of illusionists: confidence - Aeon: Westermann - Drunk on genocide: how the Nazis celebrated murdering Jews: 16/02/2018 (Edward B. Westermann) (WebRef=8967)
- Aeon: Bortolotti - Confabulation: why telling ourselves stories makes us feel ok: 13/02/2018 (Lisa Bortolotti) (WebRef=9077)
- Aeon: Goff - Is the Universe a conscious mind?: 08/02/2018 (Philip Goff) (PID Note: Consciousness452) (WebRef=8413)
- Aeon: Gordon - Local links run the world: 01/02/2018 (Deborah M. Gordon) (WebRef=9098)
→ Networks regulate everything from ant colonies and middle schools to epidemics and the internet. Here’s how they work - Aeon: Frohlich - Life in hollow Earth: 31/01/2018 (Joel Frohlich) (WebRef=9096)
→ Is Earth inside the Universe, or vice versa? Since we can grasp only a model of reality, how do we know what’s real? - Aeon: Witkowski - How sound and smell cues can enhance learning while you sleep: 23/01/2018 (Sadie Witkowski) (WebRef=9109)
- Aeon: Halpern - Spiritual hyperplane: 18/01/2018 (Paul Halpern) (WebRef=9127)
→ How spiritualists of the 19th century forged a lasting association between higher dimensions and the occult world - Aeon: Goldstein - Holding your partner’s hand can ease their pain: 16/01/2018 (Pavel Goldstein) (WebRef=9123)
- Aeon: Adelman - Why the idea that the world is in terminal decline is so dangerous: 01/11/2017 (Jeremy Adelman) (WebRef=5720)
- Aeon: Huenemann - Who needs a perfect language?: 30/05/2017 (Charles Huenemann) (WebRef=4161)
- Aeon: Ratner-Rosenhagen - American dreaming 3.0: 25/05/2017 (Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen) (WebRef=10185)
→ Embrace dreams as a counter to the naive realism of politics today, and they could become a potent democratic force - Aeon: Reed - Why I am not going to buy a cellphone: 21/02/2017 (Philip Reed) (WebRef=9112)
- Aeon: Elhaik - Solving the mystery of the Druze – a 2,000-year-old odyssey: 07/02/2017 (Eran Elhaik) (WebRef=9023)
- Aeon: Ariel - What the teleprompter tells us about truth, Trump and speech: 02/02/2017 (Nana Ariel) (WebRef=9056)
- Aeon: Moyer - A bug for Alzheimer’s?: 16/01/2017 (Melinda Wenner Moyer) (WebRef=9082)
→ A bold theory places infection at the root of Alzheimer’s, explaining why decades of treatment have done little good - Aeon: Novaes - What is logic?: 12/01/2017 (Catarina Dutilh Novaes) (WebRef=8932)
→ Is logical thinking a way to discover or to debate? The answers from philosophy and mathematics define human knowledge - Aeon: Gordon - The queen does not rule: 19/12/2016 (Deborah M. Gordon) (WebRef=9348)
→ The ant colony has often served as a metaphor for human order and hierarchy. But real ant society is radical to its core - Aeon: Hendrick - Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills: 05/12/2016 (Carl Hendrick) (WebRef=9000)
- Aeon: Greenwood - When the stories add up: the six narrative arcs in fiction: 18/11/2016 (Veronique Greenwood) (WebRef=9090)
- Aeon: Keim - A tale of three dogs: 15/11/2016 (Brandon Keim) (WebRef=8242)
→ Coyotes, dingoes and wolves are all dogs, as intelligent and loyal as our familiars. Our treatment of them is unconscionable - Aeon: Farrier - Deep time’s uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces: 31/10/2016 (David Farrier) (WebRef=5883)
- Aeon: Siegel - The open mind: 24/10/2016 (Daniel J. Siegel) (WebRef=9323)
→ The most vivid part of the mind bubbles up through sensation and new experience when unencumbered by analytical thought - Aeon: Fehlhaber - How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain: 06/10/2016 (Kate Fehlhaber) (PID Note: Brain453) (WebRef=8160)
- Aeon: Price - Taming the quantum spooks: 14/09/2016454
- Aeon: Harris - The English question: 09/08/2016 (Paul Harris) (WebRef=8441)
→ Little England may have undone Great Britain. Will a nation of dark fascism or one of green and pleasant lands emerge? - Aeon: Switek - Extinction is forever: de-extinction can’t save what we had: 19/07/2016 (Brian Switek) (PID Note: Death455) (WebRef=4178)
- Aeon: Delistraty - Only the lonely: 13/07/2016 (Cody Delistraty) (WebRef=9401)
→ Loneliness is hell: debilitating yet formative. Can we avoid the pains of loneliness yet enjoy the pleasures of solitude? - Aeon: Priest - Western logic has held contradictions as false for centuries. Is that wrong?: 06/07/2016 (Graham Priest) (PID Note: Logic of Identity456) (WebRef=4216)
- Aeon: Thompson - If we return Nazi-looted art, the same goes for empire-looted: 05/07/2016 (Erin Thompson) (WebRef=9290)
- Aeon: de Waal - The link between language and cognition is a red herring: 30/06/2016 (Frans De Waal) (WebRef=8766)
- Aeon: Fins - Bring them back: 10/05/2016 (Joseph J. Fins) (PID Note: Consciousness457) (WebRef=9466)
→ Untold thousands of patients misdiagnosed as vegetative are actually aware. Theirs is the civil rights fight of our times - Aeon: Graziano - The hunger mood: 18/01/2016 (Michael Graziano) (WebRef=9365)
→ Hunger isn’t in your stomach or your blood-sugar levels. It’s in your mind – and that’s where we need to shape up - Aeon: Francis - Science needs more average, non-white, non-male scientists: 21/12/2015 (Matthew Francis) (WebRef=9292)
- Aeon: Schulson - User behaviour: 24/11/2015 (Michael Schulson) (WebRef=9100)
→ Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. Should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos? - Aeon: Scott - The hacker hacked: 10/08/2015 (Brett Scott) (WebRef=8810)
→ The hacker ethos is wild and anarchic, indifferent to the trappings of success. Or it was, until the gentrifiers moved in - Aeon: Marletto - Life without design: 16/07/2015 (Chiaro Marletto) (WebRef=8372)
→ Constructor theory is a new vision of physics, but it helps to answer a very old question: why is life possible at all? - Aeon: Cassam - Bad thinkers: 13/03/2015 (Quassim Cassam) (WebRef=8608)
→ Why do some people believe conspiracy theories? It’s not just who or what they know. It’s a matter of intellectual character - Aeon: Arbesman - Get under the hood: 02/03/2015 (Samuel Arbesman) (WebRef=9118)
→ Our laptops are sleek and polished. Our operating systems are fluid and intuitive. Computing is easy and that’s a problem - Aeon: Sasseen - She wants to be alone: 18/02/2015 (Rhian Sasseen) (WebRef=9400)
→ When even a simple stroll down the sidewalk is an exercise in self-loathing, why don’t more women run away to the woods? - Aeon: Margulis - The music in you: 08/01/2015 (Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis) (WebRef=8714)
→ You might not be a virtuoso, but you have remarkable music abilities. You just don’t know about them yet - Aeon: Brannen - Sound off: 14/10/2014 (Peter Brannen) (WebRef=9074)
→ Human industry is now noisy enough to drown out whale songs. What would happen in the ocean if we went quiet? - Aeon: Arnold - Why self-harm?: 13/10/2014 (Carrie Arnold) (PID Note: Psychopathology458) (WebRef=9397)
→ Cutting brings relief because emotion and pain criss-cross in the brain. Can we untangle the circuits and stop self-harm? - Aeon: Twilley - Freedom from food: 06/10/2014 (Nicola Twilley) (WebRef=8647)
→ It takes time to plan a meal, to say nothing of cooking and eating it. What if we could opt out of food altogether? - Aeon: Armitage & Guldi - Bonfire of the humanities: 02/10/2014 (David Armitage & Jo Guldi) (WebRef=8556)
→ Public debate is afflicted by short-term thinking – how did history abdicate its role of inspiring the longer view? - Aeon: Yanai & Lercher - Life doesn’t make trash: 25/08/2014 (Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher) (WebRef=9055)
→ A genome is not a blueprint for building a human being, so is there any way to judge whether DNA is junk or not? - Aeon: Guo - Reading Howl in China: 20/08/2014 (Xiaolu Guo) (WebRef=9187)
→ My generation, once impassioned by the Western literature of rebellion, is now lulled by ‘Wealthy Socialism’ - Aeon: Sadedin - War in the womb: 04/08/2014 (Suzanne Sadedin) (WebRef=8290)
→ A ferocious biological struggle between mother and baby belies any sentimental ideas we might have about pregnancy - Aeon: Schulson - How to choose?: 14/07/2014 (Michael Schulson) (WebRef=8827)
→ When your reasons are worse than useless, sometimes the most rational choice is a random stab in the dark - Aeon: Priest - Beyond true and false: 05/05/2014 (Graham Priest) (WebRef=8516)
→ Buddhist philosophy is full of contradictions. Now modern logic is learning why that might be a good thing - Aeon: Walker - Moonstruck: 22/04/2014 (Cameron Walker) (WebRef=9026)
→ The lunar phases influence all sorts of creatures from corals to eagle owls. Does the Moon tug on human behaviour too? - Aeon: Arnett - Growing-ups: 17/04/2014 (Jeffrey Jensen Arnett) (WebRef=8723)
→ Living with your parents, single and with no clear career. Is this a failure to grow up or a whole new stage of life? - Aeon: Ravindran - Twilight in the Box: 27/02/2014 (Shruti Ravindran) (WebRef=8708)
→ The suicide statistics, squalor and recidivism haven’t ended solitary confinement. Maybe the brain studies will - Aeon: Ben-Ze'ev - Endless love: 05/02/2014 (Aaron Ben-Ze'ev) (WebRef=8809)
→ We no longer expect passion to last a lifetime, but some couples do stay in love to the end. What’s their secret? - Aeon: Fleming - Hesitate!: 08/01/2014 (Stephen M. Fleming) (WebRef=8943)
→ Quick decision-making might seem bold, but the agony of indecision is your brain’s way of making a better choice - Aeon: Arbesman - It’s complicated: 06/01/2014 (Samuel Arbesman) (WebRef=9114)
→ Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master. Have we finally reached our limits? - Aeon: Maudlin - The calibrated cosmos: 12/11/2013 (Tim Maudlin) (WebRef=8325)
- Aeon: Bering - Perversions: 25/09/2013 (Jesse Bering) (WebRef=8736)
→ Atheists and homosexuals were called perverts once. Why do we still see perversion where no harm is done? - Aeon: Wood - If a cat could talk: 24/07/2013 (David Wood) (PID Note: Animals459) (WebRef=8427)
- Aeon: Zarkadakis - Love machines: 26/03/2013 (George Zarkadakis) (WebRef=8891)
→ From Pygmalion to Bladerunner, we keep falling for our robot creations. But then, what else is AI good for? - Aeon: Jollimore - Godless yet good: 18/02/2013 (Troy Jollimore) (WebRef=9060)
→ There’s something in religious tradition that helps people be ethical. But it isn’t actually their belief in God - Aeon: Asma - Animal spirits: 06/02/2013 (Stephen Asma) (WebRef=8662)
→ The more we learn about the emotions shared by all mammals, the more we must rethink our own human intelligence - Aeon: Greenberg - Not just a pretty boy: 05/02/2013 (Ilan Greenberg) (WebRef=8667)
→ Intelligent, devoted, alien – parrots are unlike any other pet. But what does the complex human-avian bond say about us? - Aeon: Case - One warm line: 01/02/2013 (Nat Case) (PID Note: Narrative Identity460) (WebRef=8988)
→ The life well-lived, the path well-walked, each full of loops and weavings, until a person maps their patch of earth - Aeon: Rowlands - Tennis with Plato: 30/01/2013 (Mark Rowlands) (WebRef=9005)
→ In play an adult can become like a child, fully absorbed in the here-and-now. Play, not work, brings us fully to life - Aeon: Davis - Return trip: 02/11/2012 (Erik Davis) (WebRef=9314)
→ A new generation of researchers is heading into the weird world of psychedelic drugs. It could change their minds - Aeon: Claxton - Virtues of uncertainty: 17/09/2012 (Guy Claxton) (WebRef=8429)
- Priority: 3
- Aeon: Video - Do not split: 04/02/2021 (WebRef=10376)
→ Footage from Hong Kong reveals the combustible, contested reality of street protest - Aeon: Video - Uncle Thomas: accounting for the days: 15/12/2020 (WebRef=10198)
→ A ‘poet of the everyday’: an animated ode to a beloved uncle with OCD - Aeon: Video - Sleepers' beat: 25/11/2020 (WebRef=10122)
→ ‘It pulls you in’: the staff seduced by the rhythms of the Trans-Siberian railway - Aeon: Video - No ball games: 19/11/2020 (WebRef=10109)
→ Immerse yourself in the games kids play when the streets are their playground - Aeon: Video - The psychologist who sparked the gay rights movement: 20/10/2020 (WebRef=10022)
→ The pioneering psychologist who proved that being gay isn’t a mental illness - Aeon: Video - Mary Midgley - The solitary self: 12/10/2020 (Mary Midgley) (PID Note: Self461) (WebRef=10006)
→ The self is not always selfish: Mary Midgley takes on Richard Dawkins - Aeon: Video - The last honey hunter: 07/10/2020 (WebRef=9975)
→ A sacred dream sends one man on the perilous trail of toxic honey in Nepal - Aeon: Video - Elsewhere: 28/09/2020 (WebRef=9954)
→ Eight men reflect on their paths to prison – and imagine their alternative lives - Aeon: Video - Kierkegaard's horror of doubt: 17/09/2020 (Jonathan Ree) (WebRef=9934)
→ Want to think for yourself? Start with an agonising state of doubt, says Kierkegaard - Aeon: Video - Music and clowns: 21/07/2020 (PID Note: Psychology462) (WebRef=9686)
→ Jamie is empathetic and funny – and a ‘complete mystery’ to those who love him most - Aeon: Video - Three pioneers who predicted climate change: 13/07/2020 (WebRef=9670)
→ Climate change science is centuries, not decades old, and it was pioneered by a woman - Aeon: Video - Sunken films: 07/07/2020 (WebRef=9628)
→ Trawling for secrets in haunting films recovered from the bottom of the sea - Aeon: Video - Tutwiler: 15/06/2020 (WebRef=9548)
→ Childbirth classes, doulas, lactation rooms – but is birth behind bars ever humane? - Aeon: Video - All these creatures: 10/06/2020 (WebRef=9521)
→ The terror and thrill of seeing yourself in your father - Aeon: Video - Walking: 03/06/2020 (WebRef=9508)
→ An Oscar-nominated animation that celebrates walking with humans - Aeon: Video - Lyubov: love in Russian: 02/06/2020 (WebRef=9495)
→ Can you love someone for life? – and other eternal questions on romantic devotion - Aeon: Video - This is your brain on Pokémon: 19/05/2020 (WebRef=9448)
→ Parents have long suspected Pokémon rewires kids’ brains. Now there’s evidence - Aeon: Video - Free improvisation: 05/05/2020 (WebRef=9404)
→ The experimental jazz genre where musicians invent the rules with every note - Aeon: Video - A shepherd: 28/04/2020 (WebRef=9382)
→ A modern shepherd tending his flock looks for spiritual resonance in age-old work - Aeon: Video - Agnes Callard on the agency of becoming: 03/04/2020 (Agnes Callard) (WebRef=9300)
→ How the philosophical paradox of aspiration is resolved by a new theory of self-creation - Aeon: Video - Plastic and glass: 09/03/2020 (WebRef=9235)
→ Watch the mechanical rhythms of a recycling plant morph into a surreal singalong - Aeon: Video - The big push: 13/01/2020 (WebRef=8836)
→ The eerie serenity of a summer’s day by water, before one of history’s bloodiest battles - Aeon: Video - The lady and the owl: 19/12/2019 (WebRef=8594)
→ A gentle stroll through an owl sanctuary might just restore your faith in humanity - Aeon: Video - James Baldwin debates William F Buckley: 08/08/2019 (WebRef=8646)
→ The legendary debate that laid down US political lines on race, justice and history - Aeon: Video - I was a child of holocaust survivors: 18/06/2019 (WebRef=8136)
→ When your parents survived Auschwitz, where do you fit into the family story? - Aeon: Video - Keeper of our collective consciousness: I need to understand myself: 07/06/2019 (WebRef=8151)
→ God used to know our deepest fears, darkest thoughts and greatest hopes. Now Google does - Aeon: Video - Predicting the end of civilization: 30/05/2019 (WebRef=8165)
→ Civilisation peaked in 1940 and will collapse by 2040: the data-based predictions of 1973 - Aeon: Video - Critical living: 09/05/2019 (WebRef=8215)
→ The radical project that rejected ‘mental illness’ and embraced communal healing - Aeon: Video - A brief history of almost everything in 5 minutes: 07/05/2019 (WebRef=8219)
→ What do the terms ‘life’, ‘love’, ‘art’ and ‘god’ look like to an algorithm? - Aeon: Video - Disorientation: 12/02/2019 (WebRef=8368)
→ ‘I want you to live forward, but see backward’: a theoretical astrophysicist’s manifesto - Aeon: Video - Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse: 31/01/2019 (WebRef=7882)
→ Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse - Aeon: Video - Real-world telekinesis: 25/01/2019 (WebRef=8399)
→ How two scientists built a bridge between Newton and Einstein in ‘empty’ spaces - Aeon: Video - Earthrise: 18/01/2019 (WebRef=8417)
→ How an unplanned picture from Apollo 8 altered humanity’s perspective of Earth - Aeon: Video - The big city: 13/12/2018 (WebRef=8497)
→ Meet your single-celled neighbours – a microbial tour of a metropolis - Aeon: Video - Greetings from Aleppo: 30/11/2018 (WebRef=8518)
- Aeon: Video - Orbit: 27/11/2018 (WebRef=8525)
→ Majesty and wonder: a virtual, real-time ride around Earth on the ISS - Aeon: Video - Jonah stands up: 16/11/2018 (WebRef=8545)
→ Exit, pursued by Death: a young artist and rabble-rouser mines comedy from mortality - Aeon: Video - The nature of reality: 04/09/2018 (Sean Carrol & B. Alan Wallace) (WebRef=8701)
→ Can a Tibetan Buddhist and a theoretical physicist find common ground on reality? - Aeon: Video - Bear: 09/08/2018 (WebRef=8753)
→ Shaggy bear story: a German filmmaker grapples with his dear grandfather’s Nazi past - Aeon: Video - How elephants listen … with their feet: 07/08/2018 (WebRef=8758)
→ The ‘seismic communication’ of elephants treads a fine line between hearing and feeling - Aeon: Video - The street: 27/07/2018 (WebRef=8790)
→ A boy grapples with death while waiting to take over his sick grandmother’s room - Aeon: Video - Ninnoc: 24/07/2018 (WebRef=8784)
→ Confronting the quintessential high-school question: be yourself or conform to the group? - Aeon: Video - Tears of Inge: 13/07/2018 (WebRef=8825)
→ The songs that help a mother camel accept her baby after a painful childbirth - Aeon: Video - Sand men: 05/07/2018 (WebRef=8816)
→ The heart-wrenching stories behind immigrants’ sand sculptures on London streets - Aeon: Video - Noch am leben (I'm still alive): 15/06/2018 (WebRef=8856)
→ A haunting exploration of a Holocaust survival story that offers no redemption - Aeon: Video - Mammas: hamster: 07/06/2018 (WebRef=8869)
→ When it’s simply maternal instinct to eat your young - Aeon: Video - Frederick Copleston and Bryan Magee on Schopenhauer: 04/06/2018463
- Aeon: Video - Adam: 01/05/2018 (Daisy Thompson-Lake) (WebRef=8926)
→ A portrait of depression through art and neuroscience using the head as a canvas - Aeon: Video - A paradise: 29/03/2018 (WebRef=8999)
→ Gripped by a suicide epidemic, a rural Cuban community struggles to find answers - Aeon: Video - Blooms 2: 26/03/2018 (John Edmark) (WebRef=8990)
→ The weird wonders of combining 3D printing with the maths of pinecones and sunflowers - Aeon: Video - The Loving generation: checking boxes: 01/03/2018 (WebRef=9049)
→ On growing up biracial in the US in the wake of the interracial marriage bans’ end - Aeon: Video - Can you read my lips?: 20/02/2018 (WebRef=9065)
→ Why lip-reading is like ‘putting together a puzzle without all the pieces’ - Aeon: Video - Edith+Eddie: 19/02/2018 (WebRef=9062)
→ How a family feud threatens to tear apart the oldest interracial newlyweds in the US - Aeon: Video - Styrofoam: 12/02/2018 (WebRef=9075)
→ A migrant worker’s daily circus-like balancing act is a surreal reflection of China’s economy - Aeon: Video - Water valley: 23/01/2018 (WebRef=9108)
→ How the contours of fresh water help to shape the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Aeon: Video - The lichenologist: 03/08/2017 (WebRef=9183)
→ How LSD helped a scientist find beauty in a peculiar and overlooked form of life - Aeon: Video - Sit: 19/09/2016 (WebRef=9519)
→ ‘Space to grow’: on being young, anxious and American in a Zen Buddhist family - Aeon: Video - Physics and Caffeine: 23/06/2016 (WebRef=8144)
→ From relativity to quantum theory – our physical world explored through coffee - Aeon: Video - Hedonism: 12/04/2016 (Sam Dresser) (WebRef=8712)
→ Great news: pleasure is the purpose of life. Bad news: moderation is key - Aeon: Video - Why life is the way it is: 13/11/2015 (Nick Lane & Nigel Warburton) (WebRef=8929)
→ Chimeras and lightning: a radical perspective on the evolution of complex life - Aeon: Video - Apollo missions: 26/10/2015 (WebRef=8799)
→ NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon and back flip to new, pulsing life - Aeon: Video - Perpetual Ed: 01/09/2015 (WebRef=8615)
→ Can negativism sweeten life’s small joys in the face of illness and death? - Aeon: Video - Sharon: 07/08/2015 (WebRef=8872)
→ What does it mean to be ‘called’ to a religious vocation? - Aeon: Look up! The billion-bug highway you can't see: 10/07/2015 (WebRef=9689)
→ Out of sight above us swarms of insects are riding their own mass-transit system - Aeon: Video - A story of ink and steel: 29/05/2015 (WebRef=9596)
→ How collotype printing, an outmoded technology, helps preserve Japan’s heritage - Aeon: Video - Freedom vs security: freedom at any cost?: 06/02/2015 (Nigel Warburton) (WebRef=8677)
→ What are we willing to sacrifice to feel safe? - Aeon: Video - Whale-fall (After life of a whale): 18/12/2014 (WebRef=8184)
→ A whale can live 50-75 years. Its afterlife is equally long and spectacular - Aeon: Video - City of Samba: 10/10/2014 (WebRef=9225)
→ Not just a party: Rio’s Carnaval is a choreographed celebration of life - Aeon: Video - Arcadia: 23/07/2014 (WebRef=8409)
→ Conservation versus renewable energy: an ecological battle brewing in Scotland - Aeon: Video - Schlimazeltov!: 16/04/2014 (WebRef=8964)
→ Have you got it or not? London Jews argue the existence of ‘mazel’ or luck - Aeon: Video - When I die: 09/11/2013 (Philip Gould) (WebRef=8169)
→ Philip Gould wrestles with the meaning, and ecstasy, of impending death - Aeon: Vlemincx - It’s not always good to let it all out: the perils of over-sighing: 08/02/2021 (Elke Vlemincx) (WebRef=10391)
- Aeon: Norlock - Rise up fellow complainers, let’s be vulnerable together: 03/02/2021 (Kathryn J. Norlock) (WebRef=10379)
- Aeon: Taylor & Berg - Imagine a workplace where you could actually tell the truth: 01/02/2021 (Lauren A. Taylor & David Berg) (WebRef=10372)
- Aeon: Wiegartz - How to manage worry in pregnancy: 27/01/2021 (Pamela Wiegartz) (PID Note: Pregnancy464) (WebRef=10339)
→ By learning to distinguish productive from unproductive worry, you’ll be free to enjoy the more positive aspects of pregnancy - Aeon: Tucker - What working in emergency care taught me about suicide risk: 27/01/2021 (Gavin Tucker) (WebRef=10349)
- Aeon: Pathak - The media bias against antidepressants is harming patients: 05/01/2021 (Anushka Pathak) (PID Note: Psychology465) (WebRef=10224)
- Aeon: Barnby - Immersive art opens a window on the mystery of other minds: 22/12/2020 (Joe Barnby) (WebRef=10210)
- Aeon: Rutherford - How to get over ‘never good enough’: 11/11/2020 (Margaret Rutherford) (WebRef=10080)
→ Learn to spot unhealthy perfectionism, understand its emotional sources and find a way to silence that self-critical voice - Aeon: Chopra - Anxiety isn’t a pathology. It drives us to push back the unknown: 04/11/2020 (Samir Chopra) (PID Note: Psychopathology466) (WebRef=10068)
- Aeon: Taiwo - Who gets to feel secure?: 30/10/2020 (Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò) (WebRef=10056)
→ Security is one thing to a Black mother in a favela, another to a politician keen on law and order. They should be the same - Aeon: Philipsen - Economics for the people: 22/10/2020 (Dirk Philipsen) (WebRef=10030)
→ Against the capitalist creeds of scarcity and self-interest, a plan for humanity’s shared flourishing is finally coming into view - Aeon: Aktipis - Beautiful monsters: 20/10/2020 (Athena Aktipis) (WebRef=10024)
→ Cancer is part of multicellular life. Now the riotous growth of crested cacti show how humans might adapt to live with it - Aeon: Cantalamessa - Debating Bon Jovi’s cheesiness will enrich your conceptual life: 20/10/2020 (Elizabeth Cantalamessa) (WebRef=10023)
- Aeon: Easto - How to enjoy coffee: 14/10/2020 (Jessica Easto) (WebRef=10014)
→ Smooth like chocolate or fruity like a berry, coffee has as many tastes as wine or beer – you just need to know your beans - Aeon: Krause-Galoni - Immersion in fictional worlds allows us to own our dark side: 14/10/2020 (rebecca Krause-Galoni) (WebRef=10012)
- Aeon: Shapin - The rise and rise of creativity: 12/10/2020 (Steven Shapin) (WebRef=10008)
→ Once seen as the work of genius, how did creativity become an engine of economic growth and a corporate imperative? - Aeon: Orange - Pippi and the Moomins: 06/10/2020 (Richard W. Orange) (WebRef=9971)
→ The antics in postwar Nordic children’s books left propaganda and prudery behind. We need this madcap spirit more than ever - Aeon: Smith - Adam Smith warned us about sympathising with the elites: 05/10/2020 (Blake Smith) (WebRef=9973)
- Aeon: Pedersen - How I met my mother: dementia brought back her true self: 23/09/2020 (Ina Kjøgx Pedersen) (PID Note: Psychopathology467) (WebRef=9945)
- Aeon: Mandell - Handcraft lessons belong in a radical school curriculum: 22/09/2020 (Hinda Mandell) (WebRef=9940)
- Aeon: Hanley - Lessons against self-love from the forgotten François Fénelon: 15/09/2020 (Ryan Patrick Hanley) (WebRef=9924)
- Aeon: Aboujaoude - Life coaching is unregulated and growing rapidly. Should it be reined in?: 02/09/2020 (Elias Aboujaoude) (WebRef=9896)
- Aeon: Forbes - The jazz singer’s mind shows us how to improvise through life itself: 31/08/2020 (Melissa Forbes) (WebRef=9905)
- Aeon: Schwartz - Why efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better: 19/08/2020 (Barry Schwartz) (WebRef=9852)
- Aeon: Woods - The semi-satisfied life: 18/08/2020 (David Bather Woods) (WebRef=9845)
→ Renowned for his pessimism, Arthur Schopenhauer was nonetheless a conoisseur of very distinctive kinds of happiness - Aeon: Puglionesi - No rest: 17/08/2020 (Alicia Puglionesi) (WebRef=9848)
→ In the 19th century, the rest cure tested women’s sanity. Today, it challenges cherished myths about work and productivity - Aeon: Laist - What do shoes do?: 11/08/2020 (Randy Laist) (WebRef=9749)
→ Partly of the earth, partly of our body, the shoe sits on the edge of an ontological threshold. Where can it transport us? - Aeon: Schneider - You want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip: 05/08/2020 (Claudia R. Schneider) (WebRef=9735)
- Aeon: Tokhi - Slow medicine, like slow food, puts people ahead of profit: 04/08/2020 (Mariam Tokhi) (WebRef=9727)
- Aeon: Shahvisi - Pregnant women ‘nest’. But there’s nothing biological about it: 22/07/2020 (Arianne Shahvisi) (PID Note: Pregnancy468) (WebRef=9691)
- Aeon: Krznaric - Future generations deserve good ancestors. Will you be one?: 21/07/2020 (Roman Krznaric) (WebRef=9685)
- Aeon: Herring - Laughter is vital: 07/07/2020469
- Aeon: Crowe - Rural life can intensify the stigma and loneliness of mental illness: 07/07/2020 (Allison Crowe) (WebRef=9629)
- Aeon: Schinkel - Why good teachers allow a child’s mind to wander and wonder: 01/07/2020 (Anders Schinkel) (WebRef=9597)
- Aeon: Carpenter - Vienna, city of paradox: 29/06/2020 (Alexander Carpenter) (WebRef=9603)
→ How did the city of elegant classicism give birth to an explosive modernism, threatening to destroy its very traditions? - Aeon: Foulkes - How to engage with life when you feel down: 26/06/2020 (Lucy Foulkes) (WebRef=9583)
→ Withdrawing from activities you enjoy is both a product and cause of low mood. Break the cycle with behavioural activation - Aeon: Brooke-Smith - Education, unchained: 19/06/2020 (James Brooke-Smith) (WebRef=9558)
→ Rousseau’s child-centred ideals are now commonplace but his truly radical vision of educational freedom still eludes us - Aeon: Jarrett - How to have a safe psychedelic trip: 17/06/2020 (Christian Jarrett) (WebRef=9552)
→ A psychedelic experience can be deeply rewarding, but also carries real risks. Here’s how to avoid a bad trip - Aeon: Svoboda - The bittersweet madeleine: 16/06/2020 (Elizabeth Svoboda) (WebRef=9549)
→ It is a guilty pleasure and undergirds nationalist bombast, yet nostalgia for the past can help propel us into the future - Aeon: McLeod - Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal: 01/06/2020 (Alexus McLeod) (PID Note: Psychology470) (WebRef=9499)
- Aeon: Lopez - Money and modern life: 25/05/2020 (Daniel Lopez) (WebRef=9472)
→ Sociologist Georg Simmel diagnosed the character of modern city life: finance, fashion and becoming strangers to one another - Aeon: Robson - A touch of absurdity can help to wrap your mind around reality: 18/05/2020 (David Robson) (WebRef=9471)
- Aeon: Barnes - For Donald Winnicott, the psyche is not inside us but between us: 18/05/2020 (James Barnes) (WebRef=9468)
- Aeon: Oertwig & Ahalberstadt - Can the Mapuche teach us to transform fear into respect?: 18/05/2020 (Dejah Oertwig & Amy Halberstadt) (WebRef=9457)
- Aeon: Andrews - For young people, emotions are highly contagious social viruses: 18/05/2020 (Jack Andrews) (WebRef=9449)
- Aeon: Wignall - How to deal with troubling thoughts: 18/05/2020 (Nick Wignall) (WebRef=9458)
→ Intrusive thoughts are a common and disturbing symptom of anxiety. Cognitive behavioural techniques can help - Aeon: Wooldridge - Dark feelings will haunt us until they are expressed in words: 14/05/2020 (Tom Wooldridge) (WebRef=9461)
- Aeon: Menkedick - Kid culture: 14/05/2020 (Sarah Menkedick) (WebRef=9436)
→ In most cultures, kids tag along with grownups or mooch with friends but American life is heavy with ‘kid-friendly’ artifice - Aeon: Wong - The fruits of anger: 11/05/2020 (Brian Wong) (WebRef=9433)
→ To those who say anger is destructive or pointless: Not so! Getting angry spurs and sustains us to take action for justice - Aeon: Jukes - The accidental beekeeper: 04/05/2020 (Helen Jukes) (WebRef=9408)
→ The gift of a half-wanted hive took me into the world of bees, kept and wild: a place of generosity and attentiveness - Aeon: Gold - Escaping a toxic childhood: 30/04/2020 (Steven N. Gold) (WebRef=9385)
→ A new therapy helps survivors improve their lives by facing the psychological impoverishment that often accompanies abuse - Aeon: Singh - Is marriage over?: 31/03/2020 (Manvir Singh) (WebRef=9293)
→ Marriage is practised in every society yet is in steep decline globally. Is this it for longterm intimate relationships? - Aeon: Plunkett - Friendship is about loyalty, not laws. Should it be policed?: 27/03/2020 (Leah Plunkett) (WebRef=9288)
- Aeon: Kaag & Froderberg - For the full life experience, put down all devices and walk: 23/03/2020 (John Kaag & Susan Froderberg) (WebRef=9280)
- Aeon: Williams & Sakaluk - The evidence for evidence-based therapy is not as clear as we thought: 24/02/2020 (Alexander Williams & John Sakaluk) (WebRef=9218)
- Aeon: Lund - My mistress Melancholy: 17/02/2020 (Mary Ann Lund) (WebRef=9175)
→ In The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton gave his life to charting a Renaissance disease both alluring and dangerous - Aeon: Feldman - The biology of love: 13/02/2020 (Ruth Feldman) (WebRef=9169)
→ Humans teeter on a knife’s edge. The same deep chemistry that fosters bonding can, in a heartbeat, pivot to fear and hate - Aeon: Backhouse - The people’s economist: 10/02/2020 (Roger Backhouse) (WebRef=9164)
→ Paul Samuelson’s mathematical brilliance changed economics, but it was his popular touch that made him a household name - Aeon: Berberian - Roving revolutionaries: 05/02/2020 (Houri Berberian) (WebRef=9138)
→ Moving between the Russian, Iranian and Young Turk revolutions, cosmopolitan Armenians helped usher in the 20th century - Aeon: Popkin - Vive la révolution!: 20/01/2020 (Jeremy Popkin) (WebRef=8959)
→ Must radical political change generate uncontainable violence? The French Revolution is both a cautionary and inspiring tale - Aeon: Reshe - Depressive realism: 09/01/2020 (Julie Reshe) (WebRef=8793)
→ We keep chasing happiness, but true clarity comes from depression and existential angst. Admit that life is hell, and be free - Aeon: Chakravarti - Architects of empire: 08/01/2020 (Ananya Chakravarti) (WebRef=8764)
→ Jesuits knew the miserable truth of European empire in India and Brazil, yet their writings rendered it grandiose and sacred - Aeon: Fiske - Kama muta: a new term for that warm, fuzzy feeling we all get: 23/12/2019 (Alan Fiske) (WebRef=8623)
- Aeon: Amir - Personality is not only about who but also where you are: 20/12/2019 (Dorsa Amir) (WebRef=8591)
- Aeon: Wynne - Who was the Buddha?: 17/12/2019 (Alexander Wynne) (PID Note: Buddhism471) (WebRef=8580)
→ When we strip away the myths, such as his princely youth in a palace, a surprising picture of this enigmatic sage emerges - Aeon: Bommarito - Modesty means more, not less: 11/12/2019 (Nicolas Bommarito) (WebRef=8528)
- Aeon: Harrison - Reformation of science: 02/12/2019 (Peter Harrison) (WebRef=8403)
- Aeon: Geue - The power of anonymous: 27/11/2019 (Tom Geue) (WebRef=8267)
→ Is the figure of the author bad for literature? Un-authored Roman literature and the transcendence of mere individuality - Aeon: Misak & Talisse - Pragmatism endures: 18/11/2019 (Cheryl Misak & Robert B. Talisse) (WebRef=8204)
→ Pragmatism was not eclipsed after Dewey: it has been a constant and dominant force in philosophy for nearly 100 years - Aeon: Schwitzgebel - How Mengzi came up with something better than the Golden Rule: 01/11/2019 (Eric Schwitzgebel) (WebRef=8106)
- Aeon: Delistraty - The happiness ruse: 31/10/2019 (Cody Delistraty) (WebRef=8073)
→ How did feeling good become a matter of relentless, competitive work; a never-to-be-attained goal which makes us miserable? - Aeon: Phillips - We have the tools and technology to work less and live better: 23/10/2019 (Toby Phillips) (WebRef=8034)
- Aeon: Jarrett - Acting changes the brain: it’s how actors get lost in a role: 21/10/2019 (Christian Jarrett) (WebRef=8038)
- Aeon: Baggini - Secular pilgrimage: 15/10/2019472
- Aeon: Bright - My friend, my self: 14/10/2019 (Susan Bright) (WebRef=7995)
→ Female friendship is central to much recent fiction and film. What can it say about the role of relationships in identity? - Aeon: Reeve - The well-educated person: 23/09/2019 (C.D.C. Reeve) (WebRef=7966)
→ If we took Aristotle seriously we would revolutionise our educational systems to enable citizens to learn throughout life - Aeon: Rouighi - Race on the mind: 18/09/2019 (Ramzi Rouighi) (WebRef=7972)
→ When Europeans colonised North Africa, they imposed their preoccupation with race onto its diverse peoples and deep past - Aeon: Chapman - The value of shame: 09/09/2019 (Louise Chapman) (WebRef=7873)
→ Immanuel Kant held that moral education is hydraulic: shame squashes down our vices, making space for virtue to rise up - Aeon: Sasidharan - How time stopped circling and percolating and started running on tracks: 06/09/2019 (Keerthik Sasidharan) (WebRef=9464)
- Aeon: Moynihan - The end of us: 07/08/2019 (Thomas Moynihan) (WebRef=7901)
→ Only since the Enlightenment have we been able to imagine humans going extinct. Is it a sign of our maturity as a species? - Aeon: Cleary - Being and drunkenness: how to party like an existentialist: 26/07/2019 (Skye C. Cleary) (WebRef=8003)
- Aeon: Ehrenfeld - Why Epicurean ideas suit the challenges of modern secular life: 19/07/2019 (Temma Ehrenfeld) (WebRef=8023)
- Aeon: Jaekl - Human magnetism: 18/07/2019 (Philip Jaekl) (WebRef=8025)
→ For centuries, people have navigated the globe using instruments. But what if the Earth itself can help us feel our way? - Aeon: Wisher - What a deer-tooth necklace says about our Ice Age ancestors: 05/07/2019 (Izzy Wisher) (WebRef=8109)
- Aeon: Hawkins & Wasserstrom - Re-made in China: 26/06/2019 (Amy Hawkins & Jeffrey Wasserstrom) (WebRef=8117)
→ From Marxism to hip hop, China’s appropriations from the West show that globalisation makes the world bumpy, not flat - Aeon: Woolsey - The ironic feudalist: 18/06/2019 (Jeremy Woolsey) (WebRef=8134)
→ Kure Tomofusa’s hatred of democracy, human rights and liberalism has found an echo in the West. But has he been joking all along? - Aeon: O'Connor - The information arms race can’t be won, but we have to keep fighting: 12/06/2019 (Cailin O'Connor) (WebRef=8141)
- Aeon: Paris - More than skin deep: 06/06/2019 (Panos Paris) (WebRef=8155)
→ Beauty is a deeply moral matter that makes kindness, empathy and honesty attractive, while vice warps into ugliness - Aeon: Hutner & Chirino - Nuclear power is not the answer in a time of climate change: 28/05/2019 (Heidi Hutner & Erica Cirino) (WebRef=8156)
- Aeon: White - Philosophy should care about the filthy, excessive and unclean: 27/05/2019 (Thomas White) (WebRef=8171)
- Aeon: Walsh, Boehm & Lyubomirsky - Happiness doesn’t follow success: it’s the other way round: 24/05/2019 (Lisa C. Walsh, Julia K. Boehm & Sonja Lyubomirsky) (WebRef=8164)
- Aeon: Stanley - Curving the Universe: 23/05/2019 (Matthew Stanley) (WebRef=8176)
→ A century ago, a team of scientists chased the arc of starlight across a total eclipse to prove Einstein right on relativity - Aeon: Svoboda - The red thread of obsession: 21/05/2019 (Elizabeth Svoboda) (WebRef=8185)
→ Evolved human capacities for vigilance and worry are both exacerbated and rewarded by the intense pressure of modern life - Aeon: Perkowitz - Flash!: 15/05/2019 (Sidney Perkowitz) (WebRef=8195)
→ It ignited life on Earth, propelled evolution, and now signals climate change. Yet what sparks lightning remains a mystery - Aeon: Kimmich - Brain, heal thyself: 14/05/2019 (Sara Kimmich) (WebRef=8197)
→ Neurofeedback can put thoughts in your head and help you conquer phobias – even when you’re unaware of what it’s doing - Aeon: Estreich - Like the emperor’s new clothes, DNA kits are a tailored illusion: 13/05/2019 (George Estreich) (WebRef=8177)
- Aeon: Barnes - How the dualism of Descartes ruined our mental health: 10/05/2019 (James Barnes) (WebRef=8193)
- Aeon: Kreiner - How to reduce digital distractions: advice from medieval monks: 24/04/2019 (Jamie Kreiner) (WebRef=8235)
- Aeon: Segal - The case for empathy: 23/04/2019 (Elizabeth Segal) (WebRef=8256)
→ In a world of difference we can – and should – work harder to cultivate subtle, perceptive empathy towards all human beings - Aeon: Habgood-Coote - Thinking on your feet: 22/04/2019473
- Aeon: Lightman - In defence of disorder: 15/04/2019 (Alan Lightman) (WebRef=7883)
→ Humans love laws and seek predictability. But like our Universe, which thrives on entropy, we need disorder to flourish - Aeon: Thalos - Resist and be free: 04/04/2019 (Mariam Thalos) (PID Note: Free Will474) (WebRef=8296)
→ More than false choices and options, the highest freedom lies in being true to oneself and defying the expectations of others - Aeon: Tolan - Muhammad: an anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment: 01/04/2019 (John Tolan) (WebRef=8280)
- Aeon: Warboys - Dog breeds are mere Victorian confections, neither pure nor ancient: 25/03/2019 (Michael Warboys) (WebRef=8243)
- Aeon: van Straten - Lost in migration: 20/03/2019 (Giorgio van Straten) (WebRef=8322)
→ When Walter Benjamin fled France in 1940, he took a heavy black suitcase. Did it contain a typescript? Where is it now? - Aeon: Willingham - The right to know, or not know, the data from medical research: 20/03/2019 (Emily Willingham) (WebRef=8323)
- Aeon: Levy - Why no-platforming is sometimes a justifiable position: 04/03/2019 (Neil Levy) (WebRef=8333)
- Aeon: Fudge - Islam after Salman: 21/02/2019 (Bruce Fudge) (WebRef=8336)
→ The Satanic Verses would not be written or published today. What’s changed since Salman Rushdie’s notorious novel? - Aeon: Hall - Speak to the shoemaker: 20/02/2019475
- Aeon: Drew - Hormones united: 19/02/2019 (Liam Drew) (WebRef=8354)
→ The hormone system works like a democracy: every tissue in the body is an endocrine organ asserting its needs and demands - Aeon: Bjornerud - How to make mountains: 18/02/2019 (Marcia Bjornerud) (WebRef=8357)
→ In living memory, geologists believed that the Earth was slowly shrivelling, little guessing how vibrantly alive it truly is - Aeon: Knight - Did laughter make the mind?: 11/02/2019 (Chris Knight) (WebRef=8369)
→ A psychological relief valve and a guard against despotism, laughter is a uniquely human – and collective – activity - Aeon: Frankopan - Don’t let the rise of Europe steal world history: 30/01/2019 (Peter Frankopan) (WebRef=8391)
- Aeon: Webber - Against type: 29/01/2019 (Jonathan Webber) (WebRef=8375)
→ The existentialist philosophies of Simone de Beauvoir and Frantz Fanon offer important insights into the nature of prejudice - Aeon: Cooperrider - What happens to cognitive diversity when everyone is more WEIRD?: 23/01/2019 (Kensey Cooperrider) (WebRef=8408)
- Aeon: Maloney - The creed of compromise: 22/01/2019 (Thomas Maloney) (WebRef=8410)
→ Don’t throw in the day job to follow your dream. Join the bifurcators who juggle work-for-pay and their work-for-love - Aeon: Brox - Disturbing the silence: 21/01/2019476
- Aeon: Becker & Woessmann - Economics helps explain why suicide is more common among Protestants: 14/01/2019 (Sascha O. Becker & Ludger Woessmann) (WebRef=8426)
- Aeon: Herzog - Why a market model is destroying the safeguards of the professions: 11/01/2019 (Lisa Herzog) (WebRef=8430)
- Aeon: Jarrett - Psychology’s five revelations for finding your true calling: 07/01/2019 (Christian Jarrett) (WebRef=8418)
- Aeon: Altman - Time-bombing the future: 02/01/2019 (Rebecca Altman) (WebRef=8447)
→ Synthetics created in the 20th century have become an evolutionary force, altering human biology and the web of life - Aeon: Carroll - The scents of heaven: 24/12/2018 (Timothy Carroll) (WebRef=8464)
→ Frankincense and myrrh have long links to the sacred. Why has Christianity viewed them with both fascination and suspicion? - Aeon: Cook - Why divine immanence mattered for the Civil Rights struggle: 24/12/2018 (Vaneesa Cook) (WebRef=8465)
- Aeon: Wertheim - SpaceXX: 19/12/2018 (Margaret Wertheim) (WebRef=8483)
- Aeon: Kovic - Rules in space: 04/12/2018 (Marko Kovic) (WebRef=8510)
→ If we don’t invent a legal framework for space colonisation the consequences could be catastrophic: the time to act is now - Aeon: Lenhard - At home with the homeless: 29/11/2018 (Johannes Lenhard) (WebRef=8521)
- Aeon: Perkowitz - Can a physics of panic explain the motions of the crowd?: 28/11/2018 (Sidney Perkowitz) (WebRef=8203)
- Aeon: Naddaff-Hafrey - What War of the Worlds did: 26/11/2018 (Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey) (WebRef=8526)
→ The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today - Aeon: Thomason - If you feel ashamed does that mean you are a moral failure?: 23/11/2018 (Krista K. Thomason) (WebRef=8533)
- Aeon: Herbjørnsrud - First women of philosophy: 23/11/2018 (Dag Herbjornsrud) (WebRef=8517)
- Aeon: Zuckert - The people’s prince: 19/11/2018 (Catherine Zuckert) (WebRef=8540)
→ His name has become synonymous with egotistic political scheming, yet Machiavelli’s work is effectively democratic at heart - Aeon: Jarrett - Acting like an extravert has benefits, but not for introverts: 31/10/2018 (Christian Jarrett) (WebRef=8561)
- Aeon: Dembroff - Why be nonbinary?: 30/10/2018 (Robin Dembroff) (WebRef=8586)
→ A world segregated into male and female categories feels suffocating. Nonbinary identity is a radical escape hatch - Aeon: Wampole - Strange and intelligent: 25/10/2018477
- Aeon: Fradera - Can hallucinations lead to post-traumatic growth?: 24/10/2018 (Alex Fradera) (WebRef=8601)
- Aeon: Porter - Madhouse genetics: 23/10/2018 (Theodore M. Porter) (WebRef=8603)
→ What the archives of mental-health asylums reveal about the history of human heredity and the evolution of genetics - Aeon: Krupp - Kill the competition: why siblings fight but colleagues cooperate: 16/10/2018 (D.B. Krupp) (WebRef=8617)
- Aeon: Sorensen - Relics of power: 15/10/2018 (Jesper Sorensen) (WebRef=8619)
→ From the foreskin of Jesus to the scarf of Elvis: why humans cannot resist the magical potency of charismatic objects - Aeon: Gabrielle - Gamified life: 10/10/2018 (Vincent Gabrielle) (WebRef=8626)
→ From scoreboards to trackers, games have infiltrated work, serving as spies, overseers and agents of social control - Aeon: Chabal - The voice of Hobsbawm: 08/10/2018 (Emile Chabal) (WebRef=8631)
→ How the Marxist ideas of a British historian ended up on the bookshelves of Indian civil servants and Brazilian housewives - Aeon: Amoruso - Saudade: the untranslatable word for the presence of absence: 08/10/2018 (Michael Amoruso) (WebRef=8249)
- Aeon: Jarrett - Psychotherapy is not harmless: on the side effects of CBT: 05/10/2018 (Christian Jarrett) (WebRef=8635)
- Aeon: Besser - Being ‘interesting’ is not an objective feature of the world: 03/10/2018 (Lorraine L. Besser) (WebRef=8641)
- Aeon: Kaag - William James - The greatest use of life: 01/10/2018478
- Aeon: Asma - Religion is about emotion regulation, and it’s very good at it: 25/09/2018 (Stephen Asma) (WebRef=8656)
- Aeon: Wykstra - What really helps the poor?: 20/09/2018 (Stephanie Wykstra) (WebRef=8673)
→ It’s difficult to test whether poverty relief actually works. Do randomised controlled trials provide a scientific measure? - Aeon: Alberti - One is the loneliest number: the history of a Western problem: 12/09/2018 (Fay Bound Alberti) (WebRef=8687)
- Aeon: Lennon & Locey - There are more microbial species on Earth than stars in the galaxy: 10/09/2018 (Jay T. Lennon & A+Locey (Kenneth J.)A+) (WebRef=8692)
- Aeon: Grant - Musical pleasures: 04/09/2018 (Roger Mathew Grant) (WebRef=8699)
→ We know music is pleasurable, the question is why? Many answers have been proposed: perhaps none are quite right - Aeon: Fitzpatrick - Change the world, not yourself, or how Arendt called out Thoreau: 22/08/2018 (Katie Fitzpatrick) (WebRef=8731)
- Aeon: Sachan - Don’t worry about feeling sad: on the benefits of a blue period: 13/08/2018 (Dinsa Sachan) (WebRef=8624)
- Aeon: Misak - To my best belief: just what is the pragmatic theory of truth?: 07/08/2018 (Cheryl Misak) (WebRef=8757)
- Aeon: Harding - Ghosts on the shore: 06/08/2018 (Christopher Harding) (WebRef=8721)
→ In Japan, ghost stories are not to be scoffed at, but provide deep insights into the fuzzy boundary between life and death - Aeon: Freedman - What kills you when a volcano erupts? It’s not what you think: 30/07/2018 (Jan Freedman) (WebRef=8775)
- Aeon: Chandra - With pleasures so varied, we need a way to calculate delight: 25/07/2018 (Shekhar Chandra) (WebRef=8786)
- Aeon: Herbjørnsrud - The real Battle of Vienna: 24/07/2018 (Dag Herbjornsrud) (WebRef=8519)
→ In 1683 an Ottoman siege was repelled from the walls of Vienna. But it was far from a fight between Islam and Christendom - Aeon: Southwick & Charney - To be resilient, face tragedy with humour and flexibility: 13/07/2018 (Steven Southwick & Dennis Charney) (WebRef=8011)
- Aeon: Lawford-Smith - Speaking on behalf of …: 11/07/2018 (Holly Lawford-Smith) (WebRef=8552)
→ In the tapestry of diverse social groups, the loudest and most extreme get heard. To whom should we actually listen? - Aeon: Tennant - Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it: 03/07/2018 (Jon Tennant) (WebRef=8077)
- Aeon: Comisso - Plasma, the mysterious (and powerful) fourth phase of matter: 26/06/2018 (Luca Comisso) (WebRef=8114)
- Aeon: Cleary - Philosophy shrugged: ignoring Ayn Rand won’t make her go away: 22/06/2018 (Skye C. Cleary) (WebRef=8743)
- Aeon: Rabinovitch - What is wrong with tolerance: 20/06/2018 (Simon Rabinovitch) (WebRef=8161)
→ The ideal of religious tolerance has crippling flaws. It’s time to embrace a civic philosophy of reciprocity - Aeon: Allanach - Going nowhere fast: 19/06/2018 (Ben Allanach) (WebRef=8301)
→ After the success of the Standard Model, experiments have stopped answering to grand theories. Is particle physics in crisis? - Aeon: Epstein - Transitioning: 18/06/2018 (Randi Hutter Epstein) (WebRef=8840)
→ Individual transgender lives track a wider cultural history of surgery, hormones and revolutionised gender identities - Aeon: Owen - Ethics on the battlefield: 13/06/2018 (Andy Owen) (WebRef=8853)
→ The soldier in battle is confronted with agonising, even impossible, ethical decisions. Could studying philosophy help? - Aeon: Barrett & Dunne - Buddhists in love: 04/06/2018 (Lisa Feldman Barrett & John Dunne) (WebRef=8857)
→ Lovers crave intensity, Buddhists say craving causes suffering. Is it possible to be deeply in love yet truly detached? - Aeon: Schick - What Ottoman erotica teaches us about sexual pluralism: 22/05/2018 (Irvin Cemil Schick) (WebRef=8918)
- Aeon: Folger - Our aquatic universe: 21/05/2018 (Tim Folger) (WebRef=8902)
→ We know that the Universe is awash with watery moons and planets. How can we pinpoint which of them could support life? - Aeon: Taylor - The myth of ‘mad’ genius: 16/05/2018 (Christa L. Taylor) (WebRef=8904)
→ The Romantic stereotype that creativity is enhanced by a mood disorder is dangerous, and dissolves under careful scrutiny - Aeon: Sharot - How your mind, under stress, gets better at processing bad news: 15/05/2018 (Tali Sharot) (WebRef=8895)
- Aeon: Suchow - Haven’t we met before?: 09/05/2018 (Jordan Suchow) (WebRef=7781)
- Aeon: Muller - Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires: 24/04/2018 (Jerry Z. Muller) (WebRef=8302)
- Aeon: Svoboda - Temperamentally blessed: 23/04/2018 (Elizabeth Svoboda) (WebRef=8934)
→ Just one in five people will be lucky enough to avoid mental-health problems throughout their life. How do they do it? - Aeon: Szonyi - Everyday politics: 11/04/2018 (Michael Szonyi) (WebRef=8966)
→ Imperial Chinese conscription shows how ordinary people exercise influential political skills, even in a repressive state - Aeon: Quinn - Phantasmic Phoenicia: 04/04/2018 (Josephine Quinn) (WebRef=8982)
→ The British, Irish and Lebanese have all claimed descent from the ancient Phoenicians. But ancient Phoenicia never existed - Aeon: Popescu - What we talk about when we talk about post-truth: 02/04/2018 (Diana Popescu) (WebRef=8977)
- Aeon: Kroll - Snarge: 28/03/2018 (Gary Kroll) (WebRef=8998)
→ Our insatiable desire for acceleration exacts a mortal toll on the animal world. It’s time for humans to slow right down - Aeon: Morus - Fuelling the future: 27/03/2018 (Iwan Rhys Morus) (WebRef=8995)
→ Fantasies about new power sources for human ambitions go back a century or more. Could these past visions energise our own future? - Aeon: Bourgon - The last whalers: 21/03/2018 (Lyndsie Bourgon) (WebRef=9018)
→ Men from the Shetland Islands worked the whaling expeditions to the Antarctic. Until the whales were gone - Aeon: McNamara - Our dreams have many purposes, changing across the lifespan: 09/03/2018 (Patrick McNamara) (WebRef=9027)
- Aeon: Shermer - Utopia is a dangerous ideal: we should aim for ‘protopia’: 07/03/2018 (Michael Shermer) (WebRef=8972)
- Aeon: Smith - On prejudice: 05/03/2018 (Blake Smith) (WebRef=9042)
→ An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of ‘racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slaveowning elite - Aeon: Thornton - Two’s a crowd: 01/03/2018 (Edward Thornton) (WebRef=9048)
→ Zany and earnest, political yet puckish, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari were philosophy’s most improbable duo - Aeon: Rogan - Why Amartya Sen remains the century’s great critic of capitalism: 27/02/2018479
- Aeon: Golden - We need the singular ‘they’ – and it won’t seem wrong for long: 23/02/2018 (Stephanie Golden) (WebRef=8459)
- Aeon: Martinho-Truswell - To automate is human: 13/02/2018 (Antone Martinho-Truswell) (WebRef=9078)
→ It’s not tools, culture or communication that make humans unique but our knack for offloading dirty work onto machines - Aeon: Rapley - Few things are as dangerous as economists with physics envy: 09/02/2018 (John Rapley) (WebRef=7969)
- Aeon: Dumitrescu - Teachers and students: 07/02/2018 (Irina Dumitrescu) (WebRef=8532)
→ Medieval people knew that love and pain and dread and desire made the experience of education possible, and could also sow ruin - Aeon: Hecht - The African Anthropocene: 06/02/2018 (Gabrielle Hecht) (WebRef=8082)
→ The Anthropocene feels different depending on where you are – too often, the ‘we’ of the world is white and Western - Aeon: Grant - Enjoy!: 30/01/2018 (Sandy Grant) (WebRef=9093)
→ Philosophers have traditionally been highly suspicious of fleeting pleasures, but to enjoy the moment is a radical act - Aeon: Setiya - How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis: 26/01/2018480
- Aeon: Nichols - The good guy/bad guy myth: 25/01/2018 (Catherine Nichols) (WebRef=8316)
→ Pop culture today is obsessed with the battle between good and evil. Traditional folktales never were. What changed? - Aeon: Fraker - Gender is dead, long live gender: just what is ‘performativity’?: 24/01/2018 (Will Fraker) (WebRef=9047)
- Aeon: El Shakry - How midcentury Arab thinkers embraced the ideas of Freud: 22/01/2018 (Omnia El Shakry) (WebRef=9106)
- Aeon: Sullivan - Despotism is all around us: the warnings of Montesquieu: 17/01/2018 (Vickie B. Sullivan) (WebRef=9125)
- Aeon: Laland - Evolution unleashed: 17/01/2018 (Kevin Laland) (WebRef=8211)
→ Is evolutionary science due for a major overhaul – or is talk of ‘revolution’ misguided? - Aeon: Sagar - The real Adam Smith: 16/01/2018 (Paul Sagar) (WebRef=9124)
→ He might be the poster boy for free-market economics, but that distorts what Adam Smith really thought - Aeon: Boakes - Biodiversity isn’t just pretty: it future-proofs our world: 15/01/2018 (Elizabeth Boakes) (WebRef=9121)
- Aeon: Barash - The deterrence myth: 09/01/2018 (David P. Barash) (WebRef=8189)
→ Nuclear deterrence continues to dominate international relations. Yet there is no proof it ever worked, nor that it ever will - Aeon: Christensen - ‘Let the soul dangle’: how mind-wandering spurs creativity: 05/12/2017 (Julia Christensen, Guido Giglioni & Manos Tsakiris) (WebRef=5880)
- Aeon: Pigliucci - When I help you, I also help myself: 17/11/2017 (Massimo Pigliucci) (WebRef=5793)
- Aeon: Middleton - Do civilisations collapse?: 16/11/2017 (Guy D. Middleton) (WebRef=5794)
→ The idea that the Maya or Easter Islanders experienced an apocalyptic end makes for good television but bad archaeology - Aeon: Orent - When evolution is not a slow dance but a fast race to survive: 08/11/2017 (Wendy Orent) (WebRef=5733)
- Aeon: Roy - Science is broken: 07/11/2017 (Siddhartha Roy & Marc A. Edwards) (WebRef=5736)
→ Perverse incentives and the misuse of quantitative metrics have undermined the integrity of scientific research - Aeon: Barker - Should life in jail be worse than outside, on principle?: 31/10/2017 (Chris Barker) (WebRef=5718)
- Aeon: Van Norden - Western philosophy is racist: 31/10/2017 (Bryan W. Van Norden) (WebRef=5715)
→ Academic philosophy in ‘the West’ ignores and disdains the thought traditions of China, India and Africa. This must change - Aeon: Simpson - ‘Free speech’ is a blunt instrument: 31/03/2017 (Robert Simpson) (WebRef=4015)
- Aeon: Mokyr - How Europe became so rich: 15/02/2017 (Joel Mokyr) (WebRef=5953)
→ In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How? - Aeon: Lovelock - The makeover trap: 24/01/2017 (Michael Lovelock) (WebRef=9173)
→ From transgender celebrities to fitness fads, pop culture loves reinvention. But the drive to ‘find yourself’ has a dark side - Aeon: Brunner - Here’s to the lost art of lying down: 21/12/2016 (Bernd Brunner) (WebRef=8715)
- Aeon: Dudley - How we evolved from drunken monkeys to boozy humans: 19/12/2016 (Robert Dudley) (WebRef=8668)
- Aeon: Westacott - Why the simple life is not just beautiful, it’s necessary: 28/11/2016 (Emrys Westacott) (WebRef=9119)
- Aeon: Kreitzman - How the 24-hour society is stealing time from the night: 22/11/2016 (Leon Kreitzman) (WebRef=9465)
- Aeon: Randall - For the love of stuff: 03/08/2016 (Lee Randall) (WebRef=8931)
→ I am my things and my things are me. I don’t want to give them up: they are narrative prompts for the story of my life - Aeon: Asma - The weaponised loser: 27/06/2016 (Stephen Asma) (WebRef=8660)
→ Mass shootings have one thing in common: toxic masculinity. Where does it come from and what can be done to stop it? - Aeon: Levinovitz - The new astrology: 04/04/2016 (Alan Jay Levinovitz) (WebRef=9437)
→ By fetishising mathematical models, economists turned economics into a highly paid pseudoscience - Aeon: Oldstone-Moore - How beards put a brave face on threatened masculinity: 10/03/2016 (Christopher R. Oldstone-Moore) (WebRef=8039)
- Aeon: Koerth-Baker - Values and vaccines: 16/02/2016 (Maggie Koerth-Baker) (WebRef=8682)
→ Parents who reject vaccination are making a rational choice – they prefer to put their children above the public good - Aeon: Burton - Dark books: 07/01/2016 (Tara Isabella Burton) (WebRef=8860)
→ What’s more wholesome than reading? Yet books wield a dangerous power: the best erode self, infecting readers with ideas - Aeon: Chappell - Is it OK to have kids?: 24/12/2015 (Richard Yetter Chappell) (WebRef=8875)
→ Your decision about whether to procreate is serious. That makes it philosophy’s business, alarming as that might sound - Aeon: Cummins - Samurai, spy, commando: who were the real ninja?: 25/11/2015 (Antony Cummins) (WebRef=9081)
- Aeon: Mod - Future reading: 01/10/2015 (Craig Mod) (WebRef=8251)
→ Digital books stagnate in closed, dull systems, while printed books are shareable, lovely and enduring. What comes next? - Aeon: Gordin - Absolute English: 04/02/2015 (Michael D. Gordin) (WebRef=8013)
→ 30 April, 2019 - Aeon: Jabr - The gene that jumped: 11/12/2014 (Ferris Jabr) (WebRef=7874)
→ Genes that leap from one species to another are more common than we thought. Does this shake up the tree of life? - Aeon: Emslie - Broken sleep: 07/11/2014 (Karen Emslie) (WebRef=7897)
→ People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through? - Aeon: Davies - A closed loop: 26/09/2014 (Jamie Davies) (WebRef=9037)
→ The DNA helix gave 20th-century biology its symbol. But the more we learn, the more life circles back to an older image - Aeon: Ferrell - Farming the apocalypse: 08/07/2014 (Keith Ferrell) (WebRef=9369)
→ When my life came crashing down I took shelter on my farm, surviving with 11th-century tools like the sickle and scythe - Aeon: Miller - Talk the talk: 02/06/2014 (Eric C. Miller) (WebRef=8384)
→ A push for English to be the official language of the US has both a dark history and a regressive vision for the future - Aeon: Marsa - A good trip: 28/03/2014 (Linda Marsa) (WebRef=9006)
→ Researchers are giving psychedelics to cancer patients to help alleviate their despair — and it’s working - Aeon: Thorpe - The love of stuff: 03/03/2014 (Nick Thorpe) (WebRef=8415)
→ The problem with our society is not that it values material things too much but that it doesn’t value them enough - Aeon: Switek - Once and future cats: 10/12/2013 (Brian Switek) (WebRef=8724)
→ Sabercats were magnificent, powerful predators – what does their extinction tell us about the future of life on Earth? - Aeon: Asma - Families made us human: 07/11/2013 (Stephen Asma) (WebRef=8661)
→ The evolution of human culture can be explained, not by the size of our brains, but by the quality of our relationships - Aeon: Nijhuis - The ghost commune: 31/10/2013 (Michelle Nijhuis) (WebRef=9057)
→ Unplugging from the electrical grid was relatively easy. What we didn’t realise was that we needed the human grid, too - Aeon: King - Kindred spirits: 22/10/2013 (Barbara J. King) (WebRef=8442)
→ Animals have friends, enemies, allies and life-long companions. Human relationships aren’t so unique after all - Aeon: Chocano - Je regrette: 16/10/2013 (Carina Chocano) (WebRef=8912)
→ Our forward-charging culture sees regret as a sign of weakness and failure. But how else can we learn from our past? - Aeon: Andersen - Embracing the void: 15/10/2013 (Ross Andersen) (WebRef=8359)
→ The ancients had pyramids to tame the sky’s mystery. We have Star Axis, a masterpiece forty years in the making - Aeon: Palmer - Kept women: 10/10/2013 (James Palmer) (WebRef=9039)
→ Mistresses are big business in China, where no official is a real man without his own ernai. What’s in it for the girls? - Aeon: Case - I contradict myself: 26/08/2013 (Nat Case) (WebRef=8974)
→ I am an atheist and a Quaker. Does it matter what I believe, when I recognise that religion is something I need? - Aeon: Parks - Inner peace: 26/07/2013 (Tim Parks) (WebRef=5902)
→ We yearn for silence, yet the less sound there is, the more our thoughts deafen us. How can we still the noise within? - Aeon: Zarkadakis - Ladder to heaven: 07/06/2013 (George Zarkadakis) (WebRef=8890)
→ I have turned away from the church but, up on Mount Athos, I turned on to the mysteries of Orthodox meditation - Aeon: Birkerts - The art of attention: 24/05/2013 (Sven Birkerts) (WebRef=8609)
→ The peculiar vividness of the world becomes clear when we slow down and attend, learning to see all things anew - Aeon: Faccini - Survivors: 16/05/2013 (Ben Faccini) (WebRef=9011)
→ Filthy and violent it may be, but life is still precious for the world’s street children. Can you look them in the eye? - Aeon: Baggini - I still love Kierkegaard: 06/05/2013 (Julian Baggini) (WebRef=5739)
- Aeon: Case - Mad, or bad?: 15/04/2013 (Holly Case) (WebRef=8348)
→ Even in the decade of dissent, Thomas Szasz stood alone when he attacked the idea of madness from the political Right - Aeon: Greenwood - I grew up in the future: 18/03/2013 (Veronique Greenwood) (WebRef=8574)
→ My mom is a futurist, that peculiar subclass of optimists who believe they can see the day after tomorrow coming - Aeon: Fredrickson - The science of love: 15/03/2013 (Barbara Fredrickson) (WebRef=9220)
→ We each carry an intricate machinery of love, calibrating and attuning our moods and bodies to one another - Aeon: Marriott - When a bough breaks: 20/02/2013 (Edward Marriott) (WebRef=8515)
→ Volcanic feelings of love and hate are part of being a parent: it’s dangerous to pretend otherwise - Aeon: Evans - The mask falls: 17/01/2013 (Dylan Evans) (WebRef=9144)
→ Hunter gatherers may have very egalitarian societies, but evolution says the human love of status runs deeper - Aeon: Hanlon - Is there life on Mars?: 08/01/2013 (Michael Hanlon) (WebRef=8544)
→ Our curiosity about the Red Planet has always been tinged with fantasy – but wishful thinking needn’t be mistaken - Aeon: MacLeod - Like someone is there: 28/09/2012 (Ken MacLeod) (WebRef=8374)
→ Ineffable encounters and moments of ego-transcendence can be quite matter-of-fact. What’s really going on? - Aeon: Quiggin - The golden age: 27/09/2012 (John Quiggin) (WebRef=9520)
→ The 15-hour working week predicted by Keynes may soon be within our grasp – but are we ready for freedom from toil?
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