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Nov 8, 2024 · What if I told you – like the eerily moving Control Voice in the 1960s TV show The Outer Limits – that ‘you are about to participate in a Great Adventure’, that ‘you are about to experience the awe and mystery’ of the Universe on this journey.And what if I told you that you will witness many strange and marvellous beings, …

Jan 6, 2025 · In an article appearing in the November issue of the 1854 The Ladies’ Repository entitled ‘Interesting to Ladies’, the author known only as ‘Fanny’ provides passages from a needlework book written by a Mrs Ann S Stephens. Discussing crochet as ‘a modern invention’, Stephens highlights how it is a ‘gentle means by which …

Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the Western canon and the non-Western world.

Dec 20, 2024 · At present, describing historians as political actors evokes bias, political manoeuvring and a lack of critical thinking. This description conjures up historians merely as political pundits, rummaging through history in search of evidence to support their own political goals and potentially falling into presentism.

Nov 18, 2024 · The conventional view is that humans and other creatures around us live between periods of waking and sleeping. But it is not true. Many have mastered the art of hibernating, which allows them to spend quite a lot of their life in a mysterious state of suspended animation – sometimes more than half of it.

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Dec 6, 2024 · Collin Jennings. is a writer and academic. He is the author of Enlightenment Links: Theories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2024). Formerly an assistant professor of English at Miami University in Ohio, he now lives in South Orange, New Jersey.

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