When Idaho Banned Abortion, OB-GYNs Fled. The Doctors Who Stayed Are Cracking.

"From childbirth to miscarriages, women’s health care in the state has become increasingly dangerous."

A trip to upside-down world

Goats everywhere! Three-hour handstands! Magical doorknobs! Discover a whole new way of looking at a Cubist masterpiece - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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Equality talk

In the summer of 1646, the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences - by Teresa M Bejan Read on Aeon

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Restrictive design

Design of any kind requires empathy. If you’re making it for yourself, it’s a hobby. Everything else is for someone else. Great designers know who it’s for. And the design is for them, not for the designer. Annie Jean-Baptiste teaches us about restrictive design. This is what

Culture • 4h

Explore the Reading List for Harvard’s Humanities 10: The “Brutal” Humanities Class That’s Suddenly in High Demand

There are plenty of good reasons a student might want to go to Harvard. One is its long history, at least by American standards; another is the formidable accomplishments of the professors hired to teach there. But on some level, a teenager looking to come up in the world — or,

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“Don’t Try”: Charles Bukowski’s Concise Philosophy of Art and Life

In 1994, Charles Bukowski was buried in a Los Angeles cemetery, beneath a simple gravestone. The stone memorializes the poet’s name. It recites his dates of birth and death, but adds the symbol of a boxer between the two, suggesting his life was a struggle. And it adds the very

Culture • 5h

The Divorce Tapes (gift link). “The only music she...

The Divorce Tapes (gift link). “The only music she listens to is heavy metal from 1986. It’s the year she still lives in. She wanted me to tell this story.” This is a tough read. (CW: rape, family trauma)

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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem

This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confidante and eventual editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson: I had a terror — since September — I could tell to none, and so I sing, as the Boy

Culture • 19h

Wendell Berry on Where Our Loved Ones Gone Go

To love is to sign a contract with loss. To love anyway is both the great tragedy and the great triumph of life. When two people have loved one another, each has become embedded in the marrow of the other’s being and both have had a profound experience that cannot be unhad even

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