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Aeon Magazine
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Aeon Magazine
Aug 12, 2019
The Emotional Lives of Others
On Nias island, the heart can be ‘squeezed’, ‘hot’, even ‘hairy’. What…
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Jun 20, 2019
Medieval People Were Surprisingly Clean (Apart From the Clergy)
People in the Middle Ages took great…
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Jun 19, 2019
Reactionaries Love It, But Country Music Has a Progressive Heart
American country music is not just…
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Jun 16, 2019
How Disney Took to Subverting Its Own Romantic Ideals
In a strangely unremarked-upon twist, Disney…
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Jun 6, 2019
Who Really Owns the Past?
Cultural heritage is an ideal imposed from above. It’s time to listen to…
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Jun 5, 2019
In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was Embodied
A special class of vivid, textural words…
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May 30, 2019
What the Idea of Civilisational ‘Collapse’ Says About History
The idea that the Maya or Easter…
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May 28, 2019
How the Inkas Governed, Thrived, and Fell Without Alphabetic Writing
The Inka empire was open-ended…
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May 20, 2019
Like the Emperor’s New Clothes, DNA Kits Are a Tailored Illusion
Genetic ancestry kits provide an…
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May 6, 2019
How Culture Works With Evolution to Produce Human Cognition
Our thinking devices — imitation…
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