‘I am overwhelmed by simplicity. There is so much to see.’

Barbara Hammer documents a month of exquisite solitude on 16mm film. A film by the celebrated filmmaker Lynne Sachs psyche.co/films/an-artis…

Is there a distinctive Jewish perspective on revenge? Literary scholar and cultural historian Shachar Pinsker explores the role for revenge in Jewish life, literature and culture aeon.co/essays/what-ro…

For 3,000 years, humans have struggled to understand the embryo. Now there is a revolution underway John Wallingford aeon.co/essays/after-3…

‘So was I once myself a swinger of birches’ – Robert Frost reads his celebrated poem on yearning for the freedoms of youth aeon.co/videos/robert-…

After 3,000 years of science, our understanding of the embryo has evolved significantly. An Essay on the ancient and universal question: How did I get here? John Wallingford aeon.co/essays/after-3…

In this reading by Robert Frost of his poem ‘Birches’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1955, his aged, emotive baritone pairs perfectly with his striking imagery and wistful words aeon.co/videos/robert-…

The target of a sextortion scam upends the experience by soliciting his friends’ views on masturbation and shame aeon.co/videos/after-a…

How to cope with climate anxiety and take action psyche.co/guides/how-to-…

In this short, anonymous interviewees discuss their experiences with sextortion scams and, by extension, their perspectives on shame and masturbation aeon.co/videos/after-a…

As the climate crisis unfolds, many people are experiencing persistent anxiety and related feelings about its impacts. In this guide, a psychologist provides strategies to help you cope and take meaningful action psyche.co/guides/how-to-…

The important link between eating disorders and past trauma psyche.co/ideas/the-impo…

Given its intimacy with the body and deep play on form and function, furniture is a ripely ambiguous artform of its own aeon.co/essays/furnitu…

For someone who’s endured trauma, an eating disorder might be one of the aftereffects. That should inform their recovery psyche.co/ideas/the-impo…

In recent decades, contemporary, ambitious, conceptually driven furniture has found fans. But in all their wide variety, these objects remain hard to define: are they art, are they craft, or even design?aeon.co/essays/furnitu…

The rewards of flirtation go beyond sex or romance. But, as in other exchanges, you have to know where the red line is psyche.co/ideas/everythi…

We can learn to be happier.

‘It’s not what happens to you, but how you respond, that matters, and that’s where positive psychology can make a difference – but only if you keep reminding yourself to get out of your own head.’ bruce hood
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‘The gratification of harmless flirting is in the creativity and ingenuity of keeping the flirting itself going.’⁠ Everything I know about flirting, I learned from the Cold War ⁠psyche.co/ideas/everythi…

What the science of happiness says about the self and others bruce hood aeon.co/essays/what-th…

Jack London, Martin Eden, and the liberal education in US life | Aeon+Psyche buff.ly/3yk4rzm

A rare female scholar of the Roman Empire, Hypatia lived and died as a secular voice – aeon.co/videos/a-rare-… via Aeon+Psyche