The strange and turbulent global world of ant geopolitics | Aeon Essays
Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own
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You might have the unconditional love of family and friends and yet feel deep loneliness. Can philosophy explain why?
You might have the unconditional love of family and friends and yet feel deep loneliness. Can philosophy explain why?
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Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?
No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language
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The idea of primitive communism is as seductive as it is wrong | Aeon Essays
Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong
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How we came to depend on the week despite its artificiality | Aeon Essays
The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it
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Why there’s no such thing as the mind and nothing is mental | Aeon Essays
The terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are messy, harmful and distracting. We should get rid of them
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Testosterone is widely, and sometimes wildly, misunderstood
Testosterone has a big, popular reputation for causing all sorts of things, but what science tells us is quite different
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Don’t just do it, think it too: on learning with Gilbert Ryle – Josh Habgood-Coote | Aeon Essays
Don’t just do it, think about it too: how Gilbert Ryle’s philosophy of mind can help athletes teach themselves to improve
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How translation obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible – Robert Alter | Aeon Ideas
No translation of the Bible has tried to maintain both the meaning and the melody of the Hebrew scriptures – until now
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer – Robert Epstein | Aeon Essays
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
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Indifference is a power
As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity
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The examined life
Students are working harder than ever to pass tests but schools allow no time for true learning in the Socratic tradition
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Religion without belief
Most Japanese reject religious belief while embracing multiple forms of ritual practice. Are they religious or secular?
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What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists – Sabine Hossenfelder | Aeon Ideas
It began after I started as a teaching assistant at the department of physics. The first note was a classic – it proved Albert Einstein wrong. The second one solved the problem of quantum mechanics by dividing several equations through zero, a fea...
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Why is the Iranian government opening the world’s biggest bookstore? – Holly Dagres | Aeon Ideas
There is a conundrum facing Iranian officials. The government, on the one hand, wants Iranians to read more. At the same time, with the other hand, it wants to cover their eyes. Love of the written word is deeply rooted in Iranian society, due to...
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Does each click of attention cost a bit of ourselves? – Tom Chatfield | Aeon Essays
It costs nothing to click, respond and retweet. But what price do we pay in our relationships and our peace of mind?
