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Mask on/mask off
People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price.
Aeon audio explores th…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Going-against-the-grainers
If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention?.
Aeon audio explores the most …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Books and screens
Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time.
Aeon audio explores the most pro…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Mexistentialism
The Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures the true vulnerability of our existence.
Aeon audio explores the most…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The snowball effect
Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth.
Aeon audio explores the most profo…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The deepest South
Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?.
Aeon audio explores the mos…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The model of catastrophe
The immense complexity of the climate makes it impossible to model accurately. Instead we must use uncertainty to our advantage.
Aeon audio explores …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Guarding the guardians
Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work?.
Aeon audio explores the most…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Subverting hell
In their visions of the underworld Dante and Milton were truly subversive, incorporating predecessors into their own repudiation.
Aeon audio explores…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Compost modernity!
The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms.
Aeon audio explores the most…
4 months ago