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We all start our lives small, and no one can ever truly recover from this. Which is to say that as children, our smallness renders us vulnerable to the ‘big people’ in our lives – an experience that shapes who we become, as the psychoanalyst Tom Wooldridge explains in his lyrical Essay.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-power-imbalance-between-parent-and-child-leaves-a-trace
#parenting #childhood #psychotherapy #psychology #AeonMagazine
Can we admire human achievement without blindly embracing it? | Ripple
By Conner Griffith, via #AeonMagazine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PsbBddONzQ
"Life can exist on orders of magnitude lower power and sustain their living cells for orders of magnitude more years than previously thought possible. This means that many of these living beings bump up against the energetic limits of life, and in the process seem to have cracked the code for near-immortality. These types of intraterrestrials have such extremely long lifespans that we need a new term to describe the type of extremophiles that they are. The word aeonophiles fits, since they like (-phile) long periods of time (aeon-)."
https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life
Tales of collapse may be imperial propaganda.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse
#AeonMagazine #LukeKemp #EmpiresDie #Collapse #CivilizationCollapse #AncientHistory #Archeaology
A well-presented explanation of the relevance of philosophy to physics.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-philosophy-of-physics-when-you-can-do-physics-itself
#AeonMagazine #PhilosopyOfScience #PhysicsTheory #PhilosophyOfPhysics #ShutUpAndCalculate #ScienceTheories #ScientificTheory #Philosodon
Can someone please dub this with Werner Herzog as narrator? Thank you.
“Hardly working” — Does capitalism make ‘non-playable characters’ of us all? An uncanny exploration.
https://aeon.co/videos/does-capitalism-make-non-playable-characters-of-us-all-an-uncanny-exploration
Societies of perpetual movement
Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-hunter-gatherers-of-the-21st-century-who-live-on-the-move
How culture is archived in our bodies
If human knowledge can disappear so easily, why have so many cultural practices survived without written records?
https://aeon.co/essays/how-do-we-transmit-culture-when-it-cannot-be-put-into-words
"My life in Pakistan, full of painful nothing, had left a flat landscape inside my head. Not a bleak, dead one. That would almost have been easier. This flat landscape seared with painful livingness."
For #AeonMagazine, Noreen Masud reflects on the flat landscapes of the UK and recalls the pain and trauma from her childhood in #Pakistan: https://aeon.co/essays/flat-places-are-the-ground-that-my-mind-is-built-upon
"Too often in the West, dogs are seen through the prism of pedigree, and connected to their owner via collars and leashes. All too often, the realities of how dogs and humans live together in the Global South are overlooked."
Krithika Srinivasan for #AeonMagazine: https://aeon.co/essays/dogs-on-indias-streets-can-be-freer-and-happier-than-many-pets
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Nonfiction #Dogs #Animals #Pets #India #Coexistence
Children of the Ice Age
"For more than 200 years, children have been neglected by archaeologists. It was part of a disciplinary bias towards adult men in archaeological interpretations. This began to change in the 1970s and ’80s with the rise of feminist archaeology and the archaeology of gender..." cgc373 posted Aeon Magazine's article by April Nowell.
https://www.metafilter.com/198352/Children-of-the-Ice-Age
#archaeology #history #science #anthropology #paleolithic #IceAge #children #youth #AeonMagazine #AprilNowell
If you're looking for some quality science writing, my friend Olivia Judson has a new piece over at Aeon (no paywall).
"Darwin, of course, is famous for his work on evolution. His book On the Origin of Species (1859) laid out a wealth of evidence that evolution occurs, and proposed a mechanism – natural selection – for how it does so. Although much has been learned since, and many of his ideas have been extended, corrected or refined, the Origin remains the founding text of modern biology, and is the pinnacle of Darwin’s work. But Darwin’s first scientific monograph and his last – the two bookends of his thoughts, so to speak – were both about how animals have, over vast spans of time, transformed the landscape."
#Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Geology #Aeon #AeonMagazine #Darwin
https://aeon.co/essays/the-insight-of-darwins-work-on-corals-worms-and-co-evolution