The Hedgehog and the Fox


Philosopher Isaiah Berlin pens a brilliant essay about dividing writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs 🦔 (Master of One) and foxes 🦊 (Jack of all trades). Which do you think you are?

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Aeon Essays


Aeon is without a doubt my favourite website for browsing great essays. They boast a collection of fantastic works with topics ranging from philosphy and culture, to science and psychology. Not a bad way to waste time eh? 📚🌟

Essays | Aeon

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Nietzsche and the Cynics


Helen explores Nietzschse used of ideas from the Ancient cynics to explore the death of God and the nature of morality 🙈🙉🙊

What Nietzsche learnt from Diogenes the Cynic | Aeon Essays

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How We Should Respond to Photographs of Suffering


Sarah explores the great works of photography theorist Ariella Azoulay.

How We Should Respond to Photographs of Suffering

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Who Owns Black Pain?


Smith's near perfect essay on Art. Specifically black art and its place in western culture, making apt references to great cinema 🎞

Getting In and Out, by Zadie Smith

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Bill Clinton Swag


Thomas Millar creates a great website that lets you add your favourite albums to an iconic Bill Clinton photo. Feel free to share this with your friends and compare your classic albums.

Bill Clinton Swag

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Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics


Aeon is without a doubt my favorite website for browsing great essays. They boast a collection of fantastic works with topics ranging from philosphy and culture, to science and psychology. Not a bad way to waste time eh? 📚🌟

<aside> 🌿 Author: Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss, Danah boyd category: Essay

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The Global Network of Discovery


Imagine you've just finished reading Hemingway's Old man and the Sea, or you've just finished listening to Mozart's Don Giovanni. You're still in the mood for a work of art similar to a Hemingway book, or a Mozart piece. This gets you the next best thing.

The Global Network Of Discovery

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Women’s Minds Matter


Sally challenges our habit of exaulting a particular brand of western rationality, and its effects on modern femininity 💃🕺🏽

Feminists never bought the idea of a mind set free from its body | Aeon Essays

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Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future


Tim Urban takes us into a universe of knowledge spanning human evolution, neuroscience, the future of mind, and Neuralink's plans to make sense of it all.

Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future - Wait But Why

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Longform Essays


The ultimate collection of the very best long form essays from around the web. Here you can find the perfect reading for life's inbetween moments 🎭

Longform

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Designed to Decieve


A breathtaking new york times article detailing the lengths artificial intelligence have gone when it comes to facial recognition and generation.

Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? (Published 2020)

<aside> 🌿 Author: Kashmir Hill and Jeremy White category: Long Form

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