A Graveyard Shift with Britain’s Gen Z Undertakers
"Could apprentice undertakers solve youth unemployment?"
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Affect theory
In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Arthur Jafa’s Elegy to America
Stephanie Wambugu on “I Am Tony” at the New Museum; plus, catch up on last week’s NYC fairs.
Paternity is poetical
The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us - by Daniel Swift Read on Aeon
Two ways to use lock-in/loyalty
Organizations invest to create an audience that sticks with them, either because they have no choice or because of an emotional connection. When this occurs, most then take profits. They decrease service, increase pricing and generally seek payback for the work they did to get
Read the CIA’s Manual of Trickery and Deception, Written by a Professional Stage Magician
The idea of a youngster vacillating between whether to become a magician or join the Central Intelligence Agency may sound implausible, but those two working environments have deeper commonalities than it would seem. So, in any case, believes John McLaughlin, whose more than 30
The Little Albert Experiment: The Perverse 1920 Study That Made a Baby Afraid of Santa Claus & Bunnies
The field of psychology is very different than it used to be. Nowadays, the American Psychological Association has a code of conduct for experiments that ensures a subject’s confidentiality, consent,and general mental well-being. In the old days, it wasn’t the case. Back then,
The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and feeling we have invented to divine an answer — philosophy and poetry, scripture and
Do Not Spare Yourself: An Antidote to Feeling Like You Are Waiting to Start Living
The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly