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    May 31

    For the first time Aeon Essays are available for syndication in English, online:

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  2. 46 minutes ago

    The study of languages has long been prone to nonsense. Why is linguistics such a magnet for crackpots?

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  3. 3 hours ago

    The nation-state arrived late to history, and there's evidence they won't last too. Last week’s most read:

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  4. 5 hours ago

    The 13th-century revolution that made modern poetry possible:

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  5. 7 hours ago

    Why the apparent flatness of space is an enduring cosmological mystery. Last week’s most watched on Aeon Video:

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  6. 9 hours ago

    Some philosophers think maths exists in a mysterious other realm. They’re wrong. Look around: you can see it

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  7. 18 hours ago

    When researchers wear many hats – commercial as well as scientific – scientific neutrality is lost

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  8. 19 hours ago

    Wistful and beautifully shot, this documentary follows a Scottish farmer’s mission to raise a herd of American bison

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  9. 20 hours ago

    Fixing chronic back pain is possible only when patients understand how much it is produced by the brain, not spine

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  10. 21 hours ago

    For centuries, alliterative metre was the only way to write poetry in English. Then, quite suddenly, it wasn’t

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  11. 22 hours ago

    In bio-techno-sciences, distinctions are gone: researchers are consultants, entrepreneurs, directors, shareholders

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  12. 23 hours ago

    Though as wild-looking as the Scottish moors they graze on, these bison are not cut out for Scottish weather:

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  13. 24 hours ago

    Photography came of age amid the wars and atrocities, as well as the humanitarian aspirations, of the modern world

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  14. Sep 15

    The life sciences have claimed, and have been given, authority to define ‘human nature’. Should we be worried?

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  15. Sep 15

    Should we be worried about the loss of scientific neutrality?

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  16. Sep 15

    How can scientific neutrality be maintained? And should it?

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  17. Sep 15

    At the end of the 12th century, poets writing in English invented new metres, including the now ubiquitous ‘ballad’

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  18. Sep 15

    Compelled by awe for the American bison, a farmer is consumed by the idea of bringing them to Scotland. Aeon Video:

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  19. Sep 15

    No one would call ‘Amazing Grace’ avant-garde today but its metre was cutting edge in English literary culture c1200

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  20. Sep 15

    Aeon newsletter -

  21. Sep 15

    Out of post-Vietnam anger at the misuse of science came a radical movement dedicated the democratising of science

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