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Land loneliness
2024-07-26 18:00:00
![Aerial view of a large pipeline construction site with machinery and vehicles cutting through green fields and hills under a partly cloudy sky.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/de111629-458b-4736-b99b-e22f6e4a4823/essay-mvp-2.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
To survive, we are asked to forget that our lands and bodies are being violated, policed, ripped up, silenced, sacrificed
- by Kelsey Day
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Baby talk
2024-07-25 18:00:00
![Newborn baby being held by a person wearing blue gloves, with another masked individual looking at the baby in a medical setting.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/2d9d06ed-ade3-477b-af97-f7a930541021/essay-final-gettyimages-1241606537.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
When babies are born, they cry in the accent of their mother tongue: how does language begin in the womb?
- by Darshana Narayanan
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Fitting
2024-07-24 18:01:00
![A person with a prosthetic leg stands in a room filled with plastic-wrapped prosthetics and limbs, showcasing orthopaedic supplies.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/38f0b8cd-6a17-427f-905a-7e829a618ff6/fitting-landscape-4.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
A rare insight into the extraordinary work of creating a prosthetic leg through measuring, moulding, fitting and feeling
- by Aeon Video
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All that we are
2024-07-23 18:00:00
![Black-and-white photo of three Black men sitting at a table with microphones during a press conference. One of the men has a bandage on his head.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/6f708321-f6cf-4da2-9aaf-fdcac679c2c1/essay-final-nyc12794.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
The philosophy of personalism inspired Martin Luther King’s dream of a better world. We still need its hopeful ideas today
- by Bennett Gilbert
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A novel kind of music
2024-07-22 18:00:00
![Still life with musical instruments, sheet music, books, and a small statue on a table draped with a richly patterned red and gold curtain.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/2e3715c3-c5a7-4473-b2d1-dea03342f129/test-essay-evaristo_baschenis_-_still_life_with_musical_instruments_books_and_sculpture_-_google_art_project.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
So-called ‘classical’ music was as revolutionary as the modern novel in its storytelling, harmony and depth
- by Joel Sandelson
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Decolonising psychology
2024-07-19 18:00:00
![A black-and-white photo of soldiers in uniform checking documents of several men standing outdoors, with laundry hanging in the background.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/d399ecd9-a857-4d37-a45a-0912658a3871/essay-final-par53942.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
At times complicit in racism and oppression, psychology has also been a fertile ground for radical and liberatory thought
- by Rami Gabriel
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Beyond authenticity
2024-07-18 18:00:00
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In her final unfinished work, Hannah Arendt mounted an incisive critique of the idea that we are in search of our true selves
- by Samantha Rose Hill
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Forecasting D-Day
2024-07-17 18:01:00
![Weather map showing temperature, cloud cover, and other meteorological data across Ireland, the UK, and part of mainland Europe. Isobars are also depicted.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/be019b9f-953f-460a-9efe-8b6ee9c786f7/forecasting-d-day.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
The D-Day landings turned the tide of war, but their success rested on the uncertain calculations of Allied meteorologists
- by Aeon Video
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Governing for the planet
2024-07-16 18:00:00
![Aerial view of an industrial site emitting smoke, surrounded by snow-covered buildings and landscape, under a clear blue sky with birds flying overhead.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/0a8a7339-46af-4db7-b57a-5bff347ccec8/essay-panos_00350976.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
Nation-states are no longer fit for purpose to create a habitable future for humans and nature. Which political system is?
- by Jonathan S Blake & Nils Gilman
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The Ju/’hoansi protocol
2024-07-15 18:00:00
![Three women in traditional attire stand outdoors in a dry landscape. One person carries a child on their back while another holds a walking stick.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/70452b0c-514d-4b9e-a046-8e1c7766b57c/essay-gettyimages-120664729.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
Hunter-gatherer societies are highly expert in group deliberation and decision-making which respects both difference and unity
- by Vivek V Venkataraman
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We are not machines
2024-07-12 18:00:00
![Abstract art depicting DNA sequencing, with vertical bands of vibrant colours including yellow, red, blue and green, blending into each other with a glossy, reflective texture.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/5cea8dee-7e72-49de-b1bf-ba59a8daee9a/essay-final-c0561389-dna_sequencing_illustration.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
Welcome to the new post-genomic biology: a transformative era in need of fresh metaphors to understand how life works
- by Philip Ball
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The canine rainbow
2024-07-10 18:01:00
![Close-up of a dog with blue and brown eyes, grey and white fur, looking directly at the camera.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/10203799-0fb1-4da3-9385-efcc844c7a38/the-canine-rainbow-landscape-2-v3.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
Take a look beyond the myths and misconceptions of dog vision to learn how richly dogs perceive the world around them
- by Aeon Video
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Moon drawings
2024-07-08 18:01:00
![Aerial view of concentric snow tracks around a phone booth and street light. The artist walks in circles away from the center, dragging a suitcase behind her.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/209cec8e-c209-4740-816e-16a88c7db4e3/moon-drawings-_winter_-2022.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
Cut off from her family, Yuge carved ‘circular mantras’ into snow and sand to mark time with a personal ritual of longing
- by Aeon Video
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Baffled by human diversity
2024-07-08 18:00:00
![Illustration of various human skulls and profiles with captions detailing different ethnic groups and regions, from a historical anthropological study.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/d5c0ee97-a6ad-480d-8307-3336dbf2090d/essay-nott_s_1857_ethnographic_tableau_specimens_of_various_races_of_mankind.jpg?width=1200&quality=75&format=auto)
Confused 17th-century Europeans argued that human groups were separately created, a precursor to racist thought today
- by Jacob Zellmer
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