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Friday, June 30, 2023

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3055 - Aeon Archives Various 2023



A Sense of Doubt blog post #3055 - Aeon Archives Various 2023 

I am off on adventures today (Friday 6/30) -- driving the Washington coast north to Aberdeen then to Olympia and home -- and tomorrow (Saturday 07/01) hiking the Lower Lewis River Falls up past Cougar.

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Friday 26 May 2023

 
 

Anthropology

Essay

How to mourn a forest

 

The Marind people of West Papua deploy mourning not only to grieve their animal and plant kin but as political resistance

 

by Sophie Chao

 

Stories and literature

Essay

The sonnet machine

 

A sonnet contains an emotional drama of illusion and deception, crisis and resolution, crafted to make us think and feel

 

by Timothy Hampton

 
 

Consciousness

Idea

The myth of machine consciousness makes Narcissus of us all

 

by David Bentley Hart

 

Change and self-development

Idea

The cult of being confident and why it doesn’t help women

 

by Rosalind Gill and Shani Orgad

 

How to know if hypnosis is for you

 

Even experts can be confused about clinical hypnosis. So here’s all you need to help decide if you might benefit from it

 

by Eric Spiegel

 
 
 

Philosophy of mind

Video

Do we have good reasons to believe in beliefs? A radical philosophy of mind says no

 

5 minutes

 

Art

Video

David Goldblatt captured the contradictions of apartheid in stark black and white

 

15 minutes

 
 
 
 

Thinkers and theories

Essay

A philosophy of secrets

 

Jacques Derrida was fascinated by the figure of the Marrano Jew, whose identity could barely be told even to themselves

 

by Peter Salmon

 

Biology

Essay

Microbes have no morals

 

First we learned to fear germs, then we learned to love our microbiome. But both sides get the biology basically wrong

 

by Ed Yong

 
 

Communication and language

Idea

Facts don’t change minds: a case for the virtues of propaganda

 

by Anna Hennessy

 

The ancient world

Video

What wine vessels reveal about politics and luxury in ancient Athens and Persia

 

16 minutes

 

Poetry

Film

Enter a dreamy French surrealist poem, where love and reality never quite touch

 

3 minutes

 
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In past weeks the world has been astonished by the story of four Indigenous children, aged from 11 months to 13 years old, who survived in the Amazonian rainforest for 40 days after an aircrash. Our Essay this week shows that this was less a ‘miracle’ more a logical outcome of a culture of parenting which emphasises children’s capability and involvement in household tasks and looking after younger ones. Anthropologist Francesca Mezzenzana describes life in her husband’s Indigenous village with her new baby. Committed to ‘natural parenting’, keeping her baby close, and attending to his psychological and other needs responsively and sensitively, she was surprised to find all of her family and friends in the village were baffled and even worried for his welfare. ‘Natural parenting’ it turns out is a Western invention, and it’s not clear it’s the best way to raise resilient, independent children.

Also this week, a fascinating dive into the strange symbolism of the dagger for medieval Crusaders – just how did they imagine that war was an act of love? A powerful film mixing animation and re-creation conjures the terror and hope of those who fled the Cultural Revolution by swimming from China to Hong Kong. Food policy researcher Madhura Rao argues that ‘blue foods’ from the ocean (not just fish) are the answer to global hunger. And a gem from the essay archive, elucidating the life and work of Georg Simmel, whose prescient understanding of the impact of cities on modern life is still relevant today. Finally a charming short film takes us into a sculptor’s studio to witness up-close the techniques that made Renaissance artist Donatello’s work so compelling and lifelike.

– Brigid Hains, Editorial Director

 
 

Oceans and water

Essay

Here’s to blue foods

 

With care for the social and ecological consequences, foods from the ocean should provide sustainable protein to billions

 

by Madhura Rao

 

History

Essay

Warfare as mercy and love

 

The daggers which knights carried to the crusades help us understand why they thought of holy war as an act of love

 

by William Chester Jordan

 
 

Demography and migration

Video

One story, in a sea of millions, of swimming from China to freedom in Hong Kong

 

14 mins

 

Art

Video

From a pencil sketch to cherubs dancing in stone – recreating a Donatello work

 

7 mins

 

Family life

Essay

Amazonian childcare

 

Why my Runa Indigenous family and friends found my child-centred, ‘natural’ parenting practices so strange and troubling

 

by Francesca Mezzenzana

 

Cities

Essay

Money and modern life

 

Sociologist Georg Simmel diagnosed the character of modern city life: finance, fashion and becoming strangers to one another

 

by Daniel Lopez

 
 

Death

Video

Toby ponders the inner lives of the sheep that roam atop his parents’ graves

 

6 mins

 
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Politics and government

Essay

Models of antiquity

 

Radicals in the Age of Revolution saw the classical world as a common inheritance that could aid their fight for liberty

 

by Francesca Langer

 

Economic history

Essay

Matrimony and the market

 

The sexual revolution promised new norms of intimacy based on egalitarianism. So far, only the rich have cashed in

 

by Daniel Tutt

 
 

Ethics

Idea

A fake-meat burger, a sex doll and a thought experiment

 

by Rebecca Lowe

 

Death and dying

Idea

Why ancient Mesopotamians buried their dead beneath the floor

 

by Nicola Laneri

 

How to handle rejection

 

Whether personal or professional, the sting of rejection awaits us all. These strategies can help you heal and move on

 

by Thomas Smithyman

 
 
 

Family Life

Video

On a whirlwind morning, a couple learns if they’re facing an unplanned pregnancy

 

7 minutes

 

Dance and theatre

Video

How a Noh mask-maker summons a lifelike face from a single block of wood

 

16 minutes

 
 
 
 

Art

Essay

The art of rules

 

Conceptual art often confounds. The key is to understand the rules of the artwork and the aesthetic experiences they yield

 

by Sherri Irvin

 

Social psychology

Essay

Don’t let them fool you

 

The fear of being duped is ubiquitous, but excessive scepticism makes it harder to trust one another and cooperate

 

by Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

 
 

Play

Idea

All you need to know to start skipping stones like a pro

 

by Julie Benda

 

Human evolution

Video

Far from frivolous, cuteness is a powerful – and still mysterious – force of nature

 

6 minutes

 

The body and physical health

Film

After losing her legs, Marie-Hélène finds freedom in scars and in dance

 

7 minutes

 
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History of ideas

Essay

The post-linguistic turn

 

Analytic and continental philosophers were once united in their obsession with language. But now new questions have arisen

 

by Crispin Sartwell

 

Philosophy of religion

Essay

Reckoning with compassion

 

After an abuse scandal destroyed my Buddhist community, I had to reconsider what it means to live an ethically attuned life

 

by Jessica Locke

 
 

Death and dying

Idea

I thought I knew everything about death. Then grief struck me

 

by John Troyer

 

Music

Idea

What is it about musical hooks that makes them so catchy?

 

by Tim Byron and Jadey O’Regan

 

How to talk to your children about sex

 

It’s not about one embarrassing ‘big talk’. Prepare and protect them by applying these basic principles early and often

 

by Eva Goldfarb

 
 
 

Love and friendship

Video

When drawing your muse hundreds of times becomes an exercise in love

 

7 minutes

 

Space exploration

Video

In the search for life, might alien ocean worlds be a better bet than Earth-like planets?

 

5 minutes

 
 
 
 
 

Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods by Mariana Alessandri

 

A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human

 
 
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Political philosophy

Essay

The Swedish theory of love

 

All countries must balance the freedom of individuals with the demands of the community. Sweden’s solution is unique

 

by Lars Trägårdh

 

Physics

Essay

Time is an object

 

Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories

 

by Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

 
 

Philosophy of art

Idea

To master the art of close looking, learn to hold time still

 

by Grace Linden

 

Philosophy of religion

Video

How a devout Catholic philosopher approaches the problem of evil

 

8 minutes

 

Happiness

Film

There’s transcendence in skating – just ask the man they call ‘Slomo’

 

16 minutes

 
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.


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