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Diary of a head injury

2025-04-24 18:01:00

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In the aftermath of a head injury, Nick’s mind is split between his old self and a strange new self he doesn’t know

- by Aeon Video

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More-than-human science

2025-04-24 18:00:00

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When AI takes over the practice of science we will likely find the results strange and incomprehensible. Should we worry?

- by Brandon Boesch

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Some thoughts on the common toad

2025-04-23 18:01:00

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‘Is it wicked to take a pleasure in spring?’ George Orwell’s postwar ode to the toad offers a message ripe for our times

- by Aeon Video

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The truth about love

2025-04-22 18:00:00

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In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates shared a theory of love from the teachings of a ‘non-Athenian woman’. Who was she really?

- by Armand D’Angour

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Crafting a Hardanger boat

2025-04-21 18:01:00

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Watch as two craftspeople use 19th-century methods and tools to turn a tree on Norway’s coast into a rowing boat

- by Aeon Video

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The last letter

2025-04-21 18:00:00

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Condemned to death by firing squad, French resistance fighters put pen to paper. Their dying words can teach us how to live

- by Daniel R Brunstetter

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