It’s impossible to shed our individual biases. So the best way to establish objectivity is by taking on new perspectives. Link in bio. Potosí, Bolivia, 2019. Photo by Tim Dirven/Panos Pictures. #aeon #essays #bias #objectivity #perspective

You might think that, if you gather people with a shared fear, there could be a risk of contagion effects, but these worries proved unfounded in this programme. A promising exposure-based large-group one-session treatment has led to substantial reductions of phobic fear, avoidance of feared objects and situations, as well as ameliorating patients’ impairments in the short and long term. Link in bio. Photo by Wang Li/EyeEm/Getty. #therapy #phobia #psychotherapy #group #exposure

New York, are you ready? Join us tonight for our final event in the Sophia Club’s opening sell-out season, ‘Speaking across the divide’. We’ll be exploring the art of translation and what it truly means to be a translator in the 21st century with Esther Allen, and witnessing the extraordinary musical odes of the maqam with Amir ElSaffar and Hamid Al-Saadi. Final tickets are selling fast, don’t miss your opportunity to experience Live Philosophy! #livephilosophy #translation #culture #communication #ideas #music #maqam @sophiaclub_live @aeonmag @dresser.sam @sophiabrous @amirelsaffar

Throughout history, the most effective combatants have powered to victory on commitment to core values and collective resolve. Link in bio. Civilians in Lviv, western Ukraine, learning to use the AK-47 assault rifle at a weekend training session in March 2022. Photo by Serhii Korovainyi/Redux. #aeon #essays #war #combat #fighting #history #values #victory

How does the art of translation take shape in communities and cultures around us? What role does music play in our interpretations of the world? And what does it mean to be a translator in the 21st century? The answers to all these questions and more will be explored at the final New York event of the Sophia Club’s opening season, ‘Speaking across the divide’. With one day to go, the last tickets are selling fast, so get yours now! #livephilosophy #translation #culture #communication #ideas #music #maqam @sophiaclub_live @aeonmag @dresser.sam @sophiabrous @amirelsaffar

‘Every woman’s man and every man’s woman’ was a slur Julius Caesar’s political opponents levied. What did it mean? An erotic fresco from the Casa del Ristorante, Pompeii. Courtesy Wikimedia. #psyche #ideas #political #ancient #rome

Does philosophy reside in the unsayable or should it care only for precision? Carnap, Heidegger and the great divergence. Link in bio. Photo by Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum. #metaphysics #philosophy #logic #debate #ellipsis

We have thought of humans for a century or more as creatures of the savannah, shaped in every way by grassland life. Not so. Link in bio. Photo by Tristan Savatier/Getty. #evolution #anthropology #archaeology #forest #tropical

Buy tickets to the final event of the Sophia Club's opening season! 12 July, New York. Follow the link in bio to book. #sophiaclub #livephilosophy #philosophy #music @aeonmag @sophiaclub_live @sophiabrous

The reconstruction of a Japanese farmhouse provides a wonderfully experiential, sensorial immersion into the relationships between architecture and nature, place and people’s lives. Watch now on Psyche Films. Link in bio. #minka #architecture #relationships #home #love

Restored footage reveals how a totem pole raising sparked a cultural rebirth. Watch on Psyche Film. #footage #film #cultural #community

Frantic human activity has reduced both cultural and biological diversity. Now we must protect the dwindling alternatives. Link in bio. An aerial view of palm oil plantations in Liberia owned by Sime Darby, the world’s largest publicly listed agricultural company. Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia, January 2014. Photo by Robin Hammond/Panos Pictures. #aeon #essays #cultural #biological #diversity #globalisation