The power of the ‘C’ word
Published: July 15, 2025 10:00
Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment and fear. Is the word too hot to use at all? - by Benjamin Chin-Yee Read at Aeon
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Asmat encounters
Published: July 14, 2025 10:01
Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
An unholy alliance
https://aeon.co/essays/how-nazism-ended-centuries-of-catholic-protestant-enmity?utm_source=rss-feed
Published: July 14, 2025 10:00
In the 1930s, the rise of Nazism brought centuries of animosity between Europe’s Catholics and Protestants to an end. Why? - by Udi Greenberg Read at Aeon
Memories without brains
https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-slime-mould-teach-us-about-biological-memory?utm_source=rss-feed
Published: July 11, 2025 10:00
Certain slime moulds can make decisions, solve mazes and remember things. What can we learn from the blob? - by Matthew Sims Read at Aeon
Ancient water clocks
Published: July 10, 2025 10:01
For centuries, time-measuring tools were woefully imprecise. Moving from the Sun to water birthed a revolution in timekeeping - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Freedom over death
https://aeon.co/essays/why-medically-assisted-dying-should-be-legalised?utm_source=rss-feed
Published: July 10, 2025 10:00
Death is a certainty. But choosing how and when we depart is a modest opportunity for freedom – and dignity - by Michael Cholbi Read at Aeon
Blue room
Published: July 9, 2025 10:01
Solitary inmates find calm in nature videos in an experiment reflecting the human need to connect with the natural world - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
The French liar
https://aeon.co/essays/was-rene-descartes-a-self-centred-guru-and-a-lying-fraud?utm_source=rss-feed
Published: July 8, 2025 10:00
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him? - by Sandrine Parageau Read at Aeon
The search for America: the family
Published: July 7, 2025 10:01
Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
The replica and the original
https://aeon.co/essays/from-rebuild-to-replica-architecture-has-a-double-life?utm_source=rss-feed
Published: July 7, 2025 10:00
Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt? - by Elizabeth Kostina Read at Aeon