On lived experience, from the Romantics to identity politics | Aeon Essays: The term is ubiquitous and double-edged. It is both a key source of authentic ...
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Tiny, entangled universes that form or fizzle out – a theory of the quantum multiverse | Aeon Videos
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Big thanks to our wonderful London audience for joining us for a night of Live Philosophy at the magical Hoxton Hall. Ruth Mace’s passionate insights into the ... Show more sophiaclub.co/event/insight-or-illusion
The peculiar beauty of a song caught between composition and improvisation | Aeon Videos
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How to appreciate what you have: To better face an imperfect world, try a deeper reflection on the things, people and legacies that make your life possible
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Living with the enduring pain of postcolonial trauma | Aeon Essays: The lives of North Africans in France are shaped by a harrowing struggle to belong ...
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Fiction has a special power to give us insight into our flaws: Losing yourself in a book, film or show provides a useful mirror for character – one that is hard ...
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The daily grind of non-playable characters offers a clever critique of capitalism’s ‘infinite loop of labour performance’ ... Show more www.youtube.com/watch?v=https://www.youtube.com/watch
Philosophical theories are like good stories: Margaret Macdonald | Aeon Essays: For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories ...
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A monk showed me that spirituality needs more space in medicine: As a doctor, I’ve seen how brain diseases can become entwined with spiritual pain ...
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Psyche : After a near-fatal fall from a tree, an ecologist studies healing from disturbance in the rainforest canopy and her own life ... Show more psyche.co/films/an-ecologist-finds-an-apt-metaphor-for-healing-in-the-rainforests-she-studies
Love looks a bit different for a chain-smoking couple in a small apartment | Aeon Videos
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Many of us have the wrong idea about poverty and toughness: The ‘thick skin bias’ obscures the reality of hardship. We should check our assumptions about those ...
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Visible mending | Psyche Films: This charming stop-motion animation shows how knitting can help us process pain, embrace imperfection and mend ourselves
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Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI | Aeon Essays: We can split light by a prism, sounds by tones, but surely the world of odour is too ...
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The history of astronomy is a history of conjuring intelligent life where it isn’t | Aeon Videos
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How Scots freethinkers managed to loosen Christianity’s grip | Aeon Essays: How, a century ago, radical freethinkers quietly and persistently subverted ...
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How it looked to Afghan women to see the Taliban return to power | Aeon Videos: ‘God gave me enough power to fight for my rights’ – hear the voices of women ...
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Rather than fearing getting old, here’s how to embrace it | Psyche Ideas: Whether you are 20 or 90, each moment of life presents an opportunity to focus on what ...
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Rather than fearing getting old, here’s how to embrace it: Whether you are 20 or 90, each moment of life presents an opportunity to focus on what really matters ...
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America fell for guns recently, and for reasons you will not guess | Aeon Essays: The US today has extraordinary levels of gun ownership. But to see this as a ...
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Friends, foes and family: The Sophia Club is a new international program of cultural events. Live Philosophy takes the audience on an immersive journey of ideas.
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Ancient Greek ideas of attunement can breathe new life into music: In Athenian philosophy, attunement is important not only in music, but also for moods ...
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Music of the mind: a stunning string quartet created through brainwaves. 🧠🎻 Watch 'Paramusical Ensemble' on Aeon: aeon.co/videos/music-of-the-mind-a-stunning-string-quartet-created-through-brainwaves
My dismal years in psychoanalysis with Melanie Klein’s disciple | Aeon Essays: Going to a child psychoanalyst four times a week for three years was bad enough ...
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Censoring offensive language threatens our freedom to think: The modern obsession with textual purity stems from a misapplication of the philosophies of ...
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The divided self: does where I live make me who I am?: At home in Delhi, I am a more social, interactive person. A quiet balcony in Frankfurt gave me space to be ...
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The six priestesses who kept the flame of ancient Rome alight at risk of death | Aeon Videos
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A nine-step guide to a sensible microdosing programme | Aeon Essays: How to use small doses of psychedelics to lift your mood, enhance your focus ...
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Between earth & sky | Psyche Films: After a near-fatal fall from a tree, an ecologist studies healing from disturbance in the rainforest canopy and her own life
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Friends, foes and family: The Sophia Club is a new international program of cultural events. Live Philosophy takes the audience on an immersive journey of ideas.
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Simple entities in universal harmony – Leibniz’s evocative perspective on reality | Aeon Videos
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Why workplaces should not discriminate based on how people look | Aeon Essays: It is time to take seriously the painful consequences of appearance discrimination ...
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Passed over as the first Black astronaut, Ed Dwight carved out an impressive second act | Aeon Videos
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How to use ‘possibility thinking’: Have you hit an impasse in your personal or professional life? Answer these questions to open your mind to what’s possible
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Why so many of us see our loved ones after they have died: These experiences – which are more of an illusion than a hallucination – can be a healthy part of the ...
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Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | Aeon Essays: In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery ...
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Join us as we delve into the evolutionary roots of human behaviour with the evolutionary anthropologist, Ruth Mace. Sharing the stage with Ruth is the soulful ... Show more sophiaclub.co/event/friends-foes-and-family
How Rick Lowe transformed the idea of ‘art as an object’ into ‘art as a process’ to build and revitalise his Houston community ... Show more aeon.co/videos/if-youre-creative-why-cant-you-create-a-solution-one-artists-imaginative-activism
Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | Aeon Essays: For Bernard Stiegler, a visionary philosopher of our digital age ...
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The achievement society is burning us out, we need more play: This is about more than a self-help switch – it will take structural changes to reject capitalism’s ...
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Psyche : Experience the London African Gospel Choir, whose genre-spanning music bridges cultures with the expression of pure joy ... Show more psyche.co/films/six-minutes-with-a-pan-african-gospel-choir-is-a-shot-of-joy-for-the-weary-soul
Freedom, power and water: turning the community pool into a transgender safe space | Aeon Videos
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William James was right about our strange inner experiences: Rather than Freud’s cynicism or Jung’s enthusiasm, we need an inquisitive approach to unusual forms ...
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A Swedish expat in the Philippines wonders: what’s up with people sleeping at work? | Aeon Videos
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Biology is not as hierarchical as most textbooks paint it | Aeon Essays: Scientific narratives project social hierarchies onto nature. That’s why we need better ...
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Marina Abramović in history | Psyche Films: ‘Art should go on longer and longer as life becomes shorter and shorter’: a self-portrait of the artist Marina ...
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Why have humans evolved to have a long journey to adulthood? | Aeon Essays: Our childhood is preposterously long compared to other animals. Is it the secret to ...
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A stepfamily can rebuild over fault lines of failure and loss | Aeon Essays: After my marriage failed, I strove to create a new family – one made beautiful by ...
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A close-up look at electronic paper reveals its exquisite patterns – and limitations | Aeon Videos
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West Africa was once an architectural laboratory. Is it time for a revival? | Aeon Videos
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You’re all I need to get by | Psyche Films: Experience the London African Gospel Choir, whose genre-spanning music bridges cultures with the expression of pure ...
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How to think about time: This philosopher’s introduction to the nature of time could radically alter how you see your past and imagine your future
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What is it like to remember all the faces you’ve ever seen?: They’ve been studied by researchers and recruited by police forces, but what’s it actually like to ...
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How does Norman, a 16-year-old Shih Tzu, see the pet cloning dilemma? 🐕 🐕 Watch 'Norman, Norman' by Sophie Romvari here: aeon.co/videos/how-does-norman-a-16-year-old-shih-tzu-see-the-pet-cloning-dilemma
Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction: I want to defend and buoy hope – it’s a fragile, quirky thing, but it has the power to help us act in ...
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The terror of reality was the true horror for H P Lovecraft | Aeon Essays: H P Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror stories, was a philosopher who believed in ...
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Psyche : Chance street encounters cause a kaleidoscope of emotions in this animation woven from a wisp of a story and no dialogue. 🚶🚶♀️psyche.co/films/chance-street-encounters-cascade-into-a-kaleidoscope-of-emotions
Gallery & audio | Sophia Club: The Sophia Club is a new international program of cultural events. Live Philosophy takes the audience on an immersive journey of ...
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The medieval notion that shows why even experts should be humble: Nicholas of Cusa and others saw the importance of ‘learned ignorance’ or recognising there is ...
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The only man permitted in Bhutan’s sacred mountains chronicles humanity’s impact | Aeon Videos
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How to reduce the ethical dangers of AI-assisted farming | Aeon Essays: AI could lead to new ways for people to abuse animals for financial gain ...
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Rosemary AD (after dad) | Psyche Films: Through dark humour and hand-drawn crayon, a father wonders how a decision to take his own life might impact his baby ...
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The unique life philosophy of Abdi, born in Somalia, living in the Netherlands | Aeon Videos
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My grandfather Paul Tillich, the unbelieving theologian | Aeon Essays: Paul Tillich was a religious socialist and a profoundly subtle theologian who placed doubt ...
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How to stop living on auto-pilot: Are you going through the motions? Use these therapy techniques to set meaningful goals and build a ‘life worth living’
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What’s this buzz about bees having culture? Inside a groundbreaking experiment | Aeon Videos
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How Russia is putting the ancient Scythians to war in Ukraine | Aeon Essays: How the ancient warrior people of the steppes have found themselves on the cultural ...
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I rebuilt my self-esteem by changing the story of who I am: I once clung to a dubious family legend to help me cope with a difficult childhood ...
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When scientific pursuits are subject to human shortcomings: the Indian scientist made to wait 50 years for his Nobel Prize ... Show more aeon.co/videos/the-indian-astronomer-whose-innovative-work-on-black-holes-was-mocked-at-cambridge
Why the emotional labour of hospital staff is dirty work | Aeon Essays: In caring for and bearing with human suffering, hospital staff perform extreme emotional ...
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Why do we sleep? Adults sleep less than babies. Sperm whales sleep less again. On #WorldSleepDay , dive into this Essay on the mathematical theory that unlocks the ... aeon.co/essays/a-quantitative-theory-unlocks-the-mysteries-of-why-we-sleep
Could that tingle down the spine be a way to rediscover joy?: In new research, scientists have looked into the potential benefits of giving people with ...
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Psyche : Unfolding like a haunting dream, life’s big, unsolvable questions turn one man’s existential crisis into a stunning animation ... psyche.co/films/an-animated-figures-world-grows-enigmatic-when-he-begins-to-doubt-reality
An ancient Roman’s hilarious (and perhaps relatable) response to a social snub | Aeon Videos
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What my mother’s sticky notes show about the nature of the self: Dementia accelerates a process we all experience, as our memories become increasingly ...
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Pioneering sociologist Erving Goffman saw magic in the mundane | Aeon Essays: Pioneering sociologist Erving Goffman realised that every action is deeply ...
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The Indian astronomer whose innovative work on black holes was mocked at Cambridge | Aeon Videos
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The woman behind Strindberg’s Miss Julie and her male alter ego | Aeon Essays: Victoria Benedictsson assumed a male identity, achieved literary stardom ...
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