Henri Bergson: Creative Evolution
How do we develop our sense of space? Henri Bergson questioned the very fabric of our reality in his revolutionary work - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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A kitchen metaphor
Colleagues you care about are coming over for dinner. What should you make? Some people don’t care if it’s delicious, as long as it’s interesting. Some don’t need it to be interesting, but it needs to start on time. Others define delicious differently than you do. One couple
The Fascinating Engineering of the Titanic: How the Great Ocean Liner Was Built
When many of us first learned of the RMS Titanic, it was presented first as one of history’s greatest ironies: the “unsinkable” ocean liner that went down on its maiden voyage. Of course, there’s a great deal more to the story, as anyone who becomes obsessed with the ill-fated
How to Read Books That Challenge Your Mind: Advice from Robert Greene, Author of The 48 Laws of Power
If you’ve fallen out of the habit of reading books, you’re certainly not alone. Consider how often posts circulate on social media (itself a big part of the problem) about studies showing a rapid increase in the number of people who don’t even get one book read per year. How
Roots and the Meaning of Life
They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark hummus to which the body will one day return, they become a spell against despair and a consecration of
The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older
A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment but a privilege — that of having survived the loneliness of childhood, the brash insecurity of youth, the