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Eric Laithwaite: shaping things to come

An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains - by Aeon Video Watch at...

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Prosperity versus liberation

How Pentecostalism’s prosperity gospel replaced Catholic liberation theology in Latin American life - by Elle Hardy Read at Aeon

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Elle Hardy

Electric garden

Electric garden

The short documentary Electric Garden takes a trip to Luna Parc, the home and creative project of the US artist and craftsman Ricky Boscarino. For...

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Psychodynamic nonsense

Psychodynamic nonsense

The art of ‘being for another’ – following, listening to and making sense of another person’s world – has been practised for millennia....

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Niklas Serning

Curiosity and control

Curiosity and control

How can we build more humane zoos? Will it ever be ethical to build them at all? And what drives us to create zoos and natural history museums in...

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The truth about fiction

The truth about fiction

In September 2023, Linda Coombs published Colonization and the Wampanoag Story with Penguin Random House, about the Wampanoag people’s contact...

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Hannah H Kim

The penumbral plunge

The penumbral plunge

Imagine a planet on the far side of the galaxy. We will never interact with it. We will never see it. What happens there is irrelevant to us, now...

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Eric Schwitzgebel