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Plato saw little value in privacy. How do his ideas hold up in the information age?
Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...
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The listening gift
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...
Aeon2d
To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities
To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities ...
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‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph
Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...
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Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe
Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe ...
Aeon7d
How Pentecostalism’s prosperity gospel replaced Catholic liberation theology in Latin American life
The pastor Cash Luna preaching the prosperity gospel in the Casa de Dios church in Guatemala. Photo by Pascal Maitre/Panos Pictures In 1962, the Colombian priest and sociology professor Camilo Torres ...
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From simple motors to levitating trains – how design shapes innovation
A thinker whose innovations helped to shape the modern world, the British inventor and professor Eric Laithwaite (1921-97) was one of the inventors of the linear induction motor. Today, these motors ...