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Matter

THE MORNING THAT DAVID was scheduled for surgery, I went to meet him and Patrick in their hotel suite. We had flown thousands of miles to be there, in a crowded Asian city. Outside the hotel, the…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2194 words)

Cyborg dreams

Today, depending on your favoured futurist prophet, a kind of digital Elysium awaits us all. Over millennia, we have managed to unshackle ourselves from the burdens of time and space — from…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3292 words)
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Sunk: The Incredible Truth About a Ship That Never Should Have Sailed

HMS Bounty replica sinking during Hurricane Sandy. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7828 words)

Caring on Stolen Time: A Nursing Home Diary

Graphic by Imp Kerr I work in a place of death. People come here to die, and my co-workers and I care for them as they make their journeys. Sometimes these transitions take years or months. Other…
AUTHOR:JOMO
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6574 words)

Yosemite reverie

I sit in an alpine lake basin and eat my lunch: cheese and crackers, lemonade, and an apple. I lay my head on my knapsack, which is almost an extension of myself. I have had it for a long time, and…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1962 words)

Parents of micro preemie face heart-wrenching decisions

Our baby came swirling into view in black and white, week after week, in the grainy wedge on the ultrasound monitor. First a dark featureless pool, then a tiny orb, then budding arms and legs and…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4959 words)

A broken offering

Leonard Cohen’s autumnal years have been afflicted, and his writing nuanced, by more than a simple awareness of his own mortality. The Canadian singer-songwriter spent most of the 1990s in a…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2092 words)
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It's Global Warming, Stupid

Yes, yes, it’s unsophisticated to blame any given storm on climate change. Men and women in white lab coats tell us—and they’re right—that many factors contribute to each…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1817 words)

The vanishing groves

No event, however momentous, leaves an everlasting imprint on the world. Take the cosmic background radiation, the faint electromagnetic afterglow of the Big Bang. It hangs, reassuringly, in every…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6474 words)
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