The life-changing magic of Japanese clutter | Aeon Essays
Oct 11, 2024 · In 1990, a young Japanese photographer named Kyoichi Tsuzuki began capturing a rarely seen view of domestic life in one of the world’s most densely populated cities.
Cocaine: a cultural history, from medical wonder to illicit drug - Aeon
Oct 4, 2024 · In the winter of 1886, William Alexander Hammond – a famed neurologist and the former Surgeon General of the United States Army – took an enormous amount of cocaine.
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Psychology Essays from Aeon. World-leading psychologists, neuroscientists and science writers explore topics from personality to neurodiversity, consciousness and altered states to mental health, identity and more.
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Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to cosmology.
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Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the Western canon and the non-Western world.
Why Diego Velázquez needed a lifetime to paint his enigmatic
Nov 14, 2024 · Often thought of as the defining masterpiece of Spanish Baroque painting, Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velázquez is also one of the most unusual and widely debated royal portraits in the history of art. In this instalment of the series Great Art Explained, the UK curator, gallerist and video essayist James Payne details how Velázquez evolved from a talented young painter with an almost ...
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Culture Essays from Aeon on topics that animate human cultures, from stories and literature to rituals and celebrations, art and architecture to our relationship with the natural world.
The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology
Dec 5, 2018 · Rotten to the core: 10 findings from psychology that reveal the bad news about human nature and show us how to do better