Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death
"The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia."
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Journalist Evan Gershkovich: My 491 Days as Putin’s Political Prisoner
"Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter in Russia, thought he was meeting a source. Instead he was arrested for spying."
I Lost Myself When I Lost Hong Kong
"If returning to America was like getting on a lifeboat, why did I feel like I was drowning?"
Green tree ants are famous in the tropics
In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Reason is more than a tool
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more - by Sasha Mudd Read on Aeon
A Place Among the Fiddlers
In a southwest Virginia fairground, thousands of musicians gather every August to keep a centuries-old tradition from flickering out.
When Buckminster Fuller Proposed Putting a Dome Over Manhattan (1960)
Image via Buckminster Fuller Estate The novels of John Brunner have become a niche taste, even within his genre of science fiction. A more sociologically minded version of Philip K. Dick at his best, he could write with what now looks like a simultaneous prescience about the
LEGO Lets You Build Gaudí’s Sagrada Família in Its Largest Set Ever
When work on the Sagrada Família first began in 1882, the original architect could hardly have imagined that, 144 years later, the ambitious undertaking would still be underway. Yet here we are. Famously, the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) spent the last four
James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."
Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons
"Parenting is a practice. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway."
What Happens When We Die
"How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?"
Manuel Álvarez Bravo's Solitary Gaze
The Mexican photographer's most recognizable work echoes a dreamy vision of solitude.
The Tell, a very long read about Thomas Goldstein...
The Tell , a very long read about Thomas Goldstein (SCOTUSblog founder, high-powered lawyer, poker player) who once played a legendary game at the Bellagio where he bet wildly, didn’t even look at his cards for long stretches of time, and won big.
“Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a corpse is...
“ Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements, or to be eaten by scavenging animals.” (CW: there are some potentially upsetting photos on that page.)
Eddy Firmin Interrogates History and Colonizing Forces in Provocative Sculptures
The Montréal-based multi-disciplinary artist is deeply interested in the history and politics of colonization. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Eddy
The Agony and Ecstasy of Johanna Hedva
The artist’s first institutional solo in New York grapples with the idea of surrendering to the cosmos, but isn’t always convincing.
