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Survivors

Years ago, along the cacophonous roads leading from Ramses Train Station in Cairo, I came across a small girl with a bright red headscarf weaving her way in and out of the slow-moving traffic, her…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4273 words)

Uprooted

One day last summer, a young woman looked down on a small crowd of vocal supporters and police officers from her hammock or ‘sky pod’, 60ft above an old logging road in Moshannon State…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3685 words)
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My mom

My mom runs fast for a 65-year-old. She’s small — 5 ft even — and clocks in at just over 100 lbs. Her compact frame slays in the juniors section of American department stores. I…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2325 words)

The future of the city

Earlier this spring, I found myself walking through Lower Manhattan. There was still a chill in the air; a few flakes of snow had fallen the night before but nothing had settled. As I wandered, I was…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4914 words)

The end of sleep?

Work, friendships, exercise, parenting, eating, reading — there just aren’t enough hours in the day. To live fully, many of us carve those extra hours out of our sleep time. Then we pay…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3960 words)

Beauteous beasts

Among the reeds and roots of India’s flooded rice paddies lives a small, freshwater fish. It is covered, face to fin, in horizontal black-and-white stripes, giving the minnow its name: the…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4325 words)

Isaac’s gift

Atuf, the culture hero, turned to stone. So, too, did Inkelu, his sister. That is how things happened in the Tanimbar Islands. And after several months of travelling around this group of 65 islands…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3662 words)

Animal spirits

‘If he grabs you, just go limp and let him throw you around. If you tense up, he’ll take it as a dominance challenge.’ ‘Um. Okay.’ My brothers and I looked at each…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4379 words)
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