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Varient & News Magazine & Latest Posts https://feed.symvoules.com/rss/latest-posts Varient & News Magazine & Latest Posts en Copyright 2024 symvoules & All Rights Reserved. How to see an exquisite corpse https://feed.symvoules.com/how-to-see-an-exquisite-corpse https://feed.symvoules.com/how-to-see-an-exquisite-corpse Surreal abstract painting with eyes, lips and leaf shapes in soft colours on paper.

Surreal abstract painting with eyes, lips and leaf shapes in soft colours on paper.

A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical creativity

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:43 +0200 symvoules How, see, exquisite, corpse The birth of naturalism https://feed.symvoules.com/the-birth-of-naturalism https://feed.symvoules.com/the-birth-of-naturalism Medieval painting of a man in a cosmic circle with zodiac symbols surrounded by blue and red patterns.

Medieval painting of a man in a cosmic circle with zodiac symbols surrounded by blue and red patterns.

The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting

- by Peter Harrison

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:43 +0200 symvoules The, birth, naturalism Mother tongue https://feed.symvoules.com/mother-tongue https://feed.symvoules.com/mother-tongue Illustration of two people with closed eyes softly singing into a microphone, featuring simple brushstroke style.

Illustration of two people with closed eyes softly singing into a microphone, featuring simple brushstroke style.

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:43 +0200 symvoules Mother, tongue Passion and Palestine https://feed.symvoules.com/passion-and-palestine https://feed.symvoules.com/passion-and-palestine Aerial black-and-white photo of a town surrounded by rolling hills and agricultural terraces.

Aerial black-and-white photo of a town surrounded by rolling hills and agricultural terraces.

More than any other conflict, Israel/Palestine has provoked extraordinarily fervent emotion throughout the world. Why?

- by Derek Jonathan Penslar

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:43 +0200 symvoules Passion, and, Palestine Hearts and brains https://feed.symvoules.com/hearts-and-brains https://feed.symvoules.com/hearts-and-brains Aerial photo of a winding river through lush green rainforest with dramatic cloud formations in the sky above.

Aerial photo of a winding river through lush green rainforest with dramatic cloud formations in the sky above.

Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in the Amazon basin tell us

- by Ben Daitz

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:43 +0200 symvoules Hearts, and, brains The ethical dilemma of privacy https://feed.symvoules.com/the-ethical-dilemma-of-privacy https://feed.symvoules.com/the-ethical-dilemma-of-privacy Illustration of a purple star with an eye and shield with padlock on blue background encircled by laurel and gold rings.

Illustration of a purple star with an eye and shield with padlock on blue background encircled by laurel and gold rings.

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:43 +0200 symvoules The, ethical, dilemma, privacy The listening gift https://feed.symvoules.com/the-listening-gift https://feed.symvoules.com/the-listening-gift Painting of a serene night scene with a full moon reflecting on a dark blue lake surrounded by silhouettes of rocks and trees.

Painting of a serene night scene with a full moon reflecting on a dark blue lake surrounded by silhouettes of rocks and trees.

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine

- by Faith Lawrence

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:43 +0200 symvoules The, listening, gift A former slave’s letter to his old master https://feed.symvoules.com/a-former-slaves-letter-to-his-old-master https://feed.symvoules.com/a-former-slaves-letter-to-his-old-master Photo of a man speaking at a podium marked ‘Letters Live’, gesturing with one hand against a dark background.

Photo of a man speaking at a podium marked ‘Letters Live’, gesturing with one hand against a dark background.

‘Will you send us our wages for the time that we served you?’ A freed slave answers his old master’s request to come back

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:42 +0200 symvoules former, slave’s, letter, his, old, master So many unmarried men https://feed.symvoules.com/so-many-unmarried-men https://feed.symvoules.com/so-many-unmarried-men Black-and-white photo of two women preening a toddler who is sitting on a wall and sucking dummy, with a brick house and a washing line in the background.

Black-and-white photo of two women preening a toddler who is sitting on a wall and sucking dummy, with a brick house and a washing line in the background.

For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors

- by Ellie Robson

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:42 +0200 symvoules many, unmarried, men The cheekiest potter https://feed.symvoules.com/the-cheekiest-potter https://feed.symvoules.com/the-cheekiest-potter Ceramic vase with yellow snake handles blue clouds and text detail in a workshop setting.

Ceramic vase with yellow snake handles blue clouds and text detail in a workshop setting.

A ceramicist puts a playful twist on Italian Renaissance pottery with dirty jokes, emojis and colourful commentary on menopause

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:42 +0200 symvoules The, cheekiest, potter Poverty is not permanent https://feed.symvoules.com/poverty-is-not-permanent https://feed.symvoules.com/poverty-is-not-permanent Six children with troubled faces sitting and lying on colourful blankets inside a dimly lit room with an earthen wall.

Six children with troubled faces sitting and lying on colourful blankets inside a dimly lit room with an earthen wall.

By understanding the pernicious myths surrounding poverty, we can make progress towards a lofty goal: dignity for all

- by Anirudh Krishna & Dirk Philipsen

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:42 +0200 symvoules Poverty, not, permanent Guardians of the gibbons https://feed.symvoules.com/guardians-of-the-gibbons https://feed.symvoules.com/guardians-of-the-gibbons Photo of a gibbon mother holding her baby in a lush green forest setting.

Photo of a gibbon mother holding her baby in a lush green forest setting.

Humans are both the gravest threat and the greatest hope for the survival of the rare hoolock gibbons in northeast India

- by Aeon Video

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]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:42 +0200 symvoules Guardians, the, gibbons A very American fear https://feed.symvoules.com/a-very-american-fear https://feed.symvoules.com/a-very-american-fear Vintage film poster with illustrated women underwater surrounded by bubbles text reads “Primitive and Exciting”.

Vintage film poster with illustrated women underwater surrounded by bubbles text reads “Primitive and Exciting”.

Moral panics about erotica have coursed through the country’s history. Why do so many Americans think of porn as harm?

- by Rebecca L Davis

]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:42 +0200 symvoules very, American, fear Rebuilding Trust https://feed.symvoules.com/rebuilding-trust https://feed.symvoules.com/rebuilding-trust Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Rebuilding, Trust Is Weight Loss Medication a Catalyst for Divorce? https://feed.symvoules.com/is-weight-loss-medication-a-catalyst-for-divorce https://feed.symvoules.com/is-weight-loss-medication-a-catalyst-for-divorce Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Weight, Loss, Medication, Catalyst, for, Divorce Raising Future&Ready Kids https://feed.symvoules.com/raising-future-ready-kids https://feed.symvoules.com/raising-future-ready-kids Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Raising, Future-Ready, Kids The Rise of Cosmetic Surgery in the Social Media Era https://feed.symvoules.com/the-rise-of-cosmetic-surgery-in-the-social-media-era https://feed.symvoules.com/the-rise-of-cosmetic-surgery-in-the-social-media-era Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules The, Rise, Cosmetic, Surgery, the, Social, Media, Era 4 More Steps for Working Effectively With Anger https://feed.symvoules.com/4-more-steps-for-working-effectively-with-anger https://feed.symvoules.com/4-more-steps-for-working-effectively-with-anger Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules More, Steps, for, Working, Effectively, With, Anger Boomerang! Managing Your College Kid Moving Back Home Early https://feed.symvoules.com/boomerang-managing-your-college-kid-moving-back-home-early https://feed.symvoules.com/boomerang-managing-your-college-kid-moving-back-home-early ]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Boomerang, Managing, Your, College, Kid, Moving, Back, Home, Early How to Say No to Dominant Leaders https://feed.symvoules.com/how-to-say-no-to-dominant-leaders https://feed.symvoules.com/how-to-say-no-to-dominant-leaders
]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules How, Say, Dominant, Leaders You Also Married Their Mental Illness https://feed.symvoules.com/you-also-married-their-mental-illness https://feed.symvoules.com/you-also-married-their-mental-illness Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules You, Also, Married, Their, Mental, Illness How to Find the Truth Where Others Cannot https://feed.symvoules.com/how-to-find-the-truth-where-others-cannot https://feed.symvoules.com/how-to-find-the-truth-where-others-cannot Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules How, Find, the, Truth, Where, Others, Cannot A Better Alternative to Defensive Pessimism https://feed.symvoules.com/a-better-alternative-to-defensive-pessimism https://feed.symvoules.com/a-better-alternative-to-defensive-pessimism Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Better, Alternative, Defensive, Pessimism Perfecting the Art of Psychological Ju&Jitsu https://feed.symvoules.com/perfecting-the-art-of-psychological-ju-jitsu https://feed.symvoules.com/perfecting-the-art-of-psychological-ju-jitsu Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Perfecting, the, Art, Psychological, Ju-Jitsu Dehumanized by Design: Empathy in an Automated World https://feed.symvoules.com/dehumanized-by-design-empathy-in-an-automated-world https://feed.symvoules.com/dehumanized-by-design-empathy-in-an-automated-world Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Dehumanized, Design:, Empathy, Automated, World Hugging and Narcissism: A Surprising Insight https://feed.symvoules.com/hugging-and-narcissism-a-surprising-insight https://feed.symvoules.com/hugging-and-narcissism-a-surprising-insight Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Hugging, and, Narcissism:, Surprising, Insight Why Social Media Is Making Our Kids Miserable https://feed.symvoules.com/why-social-media-is-making-our-kids-miserable https://feed.symvoules.com/why-social-media-is-making-our-kids-miserable Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Why, Social, Media, Making, Our, Kids, Miserable Working Together on Jealousy https://feed.symvoules.com/working-together-on-jealousy https://feed.symvoules.com/working-together-on-jealousy Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Working, Together, Jealousy Why We Try to Change People—and How to Let Go https://feed.symvoules.com/why-we-try-to-change-peopleand-how-to-let-go https://feed.symvoules.com/why-we-try-to-change-peopleand-how-to-let-go Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Why, Try, Change, People—and, How, Let Bipolar I Before Lithium: What Was It Like? https://feed.symvoules.com/bipolar-i-before-lithium-what-was-it-like https://feed.symvoules.com/bipolar-i-before-lithium-what-was-it-like Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Bipolar, Before, Lithium:, What, Was, Like Why Do Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas? https://feed.symvoules.com/why-do-smart-people-fall-for-stupid-ideas https://feed.symvoules.com/why-do-smart-people-fall-for-stupid-ideas Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Why, Smart, People, Fall, for, Stupid, Ideas How to Prevent Parents' Pipes From Bursting https://feed.symvoules.com/how-to-prevent-parents-pipes-from-bursting https://feed.symvoules.com/how-to-prevent-parents-pipes-from-bursting Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules How, Prevent, Parents, Pipes, From, Bursting An Unexpected Irony of Popular Weight&Loss Therapy https://feed.symvoules.com/an-unexpected-irony-of-popular-weight-loss-therapy https://feed.symvoules.com/an-unexpected-irony-of-popular-weight-loss-therapy Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:30 +0200 symvoules Unexpected, Irony, Popular, Weight-Loss, Therapy Excavating Girsu https://feed.symvoules.com/excavating-girsu https://feed.symvoules.com/excavating-girsu Aerial photo of an archaeological excavation site in a barren landscape with workers digging and examining the area.

Aerial photo of an archaeological excavation site in a barren landscape with workers digging and examining the area.

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:26 +0200 symvoules Excavating, Girsu Elegance and hustle https://feed.symvoules.com/elegance-and-hustle https://feed.symvoules.com/elegance-and-hustle Painting of passengers in a 19th century bus, featuring men and women in period dress, one holding a basket of flowers.

Painting of passengers in a 19th century bus, featuring men and women in period dress, one holding a basket of flowers.

How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world

- by Max McGuinness

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:26 +0200 symvoules Elegance, and, hustle Since you arrived, my heart stopped belonging to me https://feed.symvoules.com/since-you-arrived-my-heart-stopped-belonging-to-me https://feed.symvoules.com/since-you-arrived-my-heart-stopped-belonging-to-me Photo of three women viewed from behind near a lake with trees. One holds a megaphone and wears a colourful embroidered shirt.

Photo of three women viewed from behind near a lake with trees. One holds a megaphone and wears a colourful embroidered shirt.

‘We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:26 +0200 symvoules Since, you, arrived, heart, stopped, belonging The planetary fix https://feed.symvoules.com/the-planetary-fix https://feed.symvoules.com/the-planetary-fix Heron standing on a small patch of greenery surrounded by calm water with a lush forest in the background.

Heron standing on a small patch of greenery surrounded by calm water with a lush forest in the background.

Despite decades of inaction we can avert the climate Hellocene and restore the atmosphere to keep our world habitable

- by Rob Jackson

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:26 +0200 symvoules The, planetary, fix Why vanity could be a good thing https://feed.symvoules.com/why-vanity-could-be-a-good-thing https://feed.symvoules.com/why-vanity-could-be-a-good-thing Illustration of a hand dropping a coin into another hand within an eye-shaped frame on a textured background.

Illustration of a hand dropping a coin into another hand within an eye-shaped frame on a textured background.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith agreed that vanity was all too human. But one saw it as a vice; the other, as a necessity

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:26 +0200 symvoules Why, vanity, could, good, thing Moral resilience https://feed.symvoules.com/moral-resilience https://feed.symvoules.com/moral-resilience A masked nurse in scrubs sitting in a hospital waiting area.

A masked nurse in scrubs sitting in a hospital waiting area.

Nurses experience deep suffering when they can’t act according to their moral compass. Our research shows a way forward

- by Cynda Hylton Rushton

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:26 +0200 symvoules Moral, resilience There are no pure cultures https://feed.symvoules.com/there-are-no-pure-cultures https://feed.symvoules.com/there-are-no-pure-cultures Painting of a bustling 17th-century market square with people, horses and a church, surrounded by historic buildings and boats on a waterway.

Painting of a bustling 17th-century market square with people, horses and a church, surrounded by historic buildings and boats on a waterway.

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history

- by Inanna Hamati-Ataya

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:26 +0200 symvoules There, are, pure, cultures The waiting https://feed.symvoules.com/the-waiting https://feed.symvoules.com/the-waiting Line drawing of a frog from a below perspective, with circles of various sizes indicating ripples.

Line drawing of a frog from a below perspective, with circles of various sizes indicating ripples.

Returning to the cold case of the disappearing frogs of Costa Rica, a biologist reveals a hard truth about life on Earth

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:26 +0200 symvoules The, waiting Voices of Victorians https://feed.symvoules.com/voices-of-victorians https://feed.symvoules.com/voices-of-victorians Black and white photo of two men using an early voice recording device, seated and holding speaking tubes.

Black and white photo of two men using an early voice recording device, seated and holding speaking tubes.

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the phonograph

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:25 +0200 symvoules Voices, Victorians The end of neoliberalism? https://feed.symvoules.com/the-end-of-neoliberalism https://feed.symvoules.com/the-end-of-neoliberalism A man standing on a balcony of a brick apartment building, with tarps and debris in foreground.

A man standing on a balcony of a brick apartment building, with tarps and debris in foreground.

The case of Mexico shows that, despite a proliferating discourse that it is over, neoliberalism is as relentless as ever

- by Inés Escobar González

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:25 +0200 symvoules The, end, neoliberalism Chemical laws https://feed.symvoules.com/chemical-laws https://feed.symvoules.com/chemical-laws Two silhouetted figures examining a wall-sized, illuminated display of the periodic table.

Two silhouetted figures examining a wall-sized, illuminated display of the periodic table.

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe

- by Vanessa A Seifert

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:25 +0200 symvoules Chemical, laws Eric Laithwaite: shaping things to come https://feed.symvoules.com/eric-laithwaite-shaping-things-to-come https://feed.symvoules.com/eric-laithwaite-shaping-things-to-come A man in a suit demonstrates with a series of blocks in a lab setting; photo.

A man in a suit demonstrates with a series of blocks in a lab setting; photo.

An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:25 +0200 symvoules Eric, Laithwaite:, shaping, things, come Prosperity versus liberation https://feed.symvoules.com/prosperity-versus-liberation https://feed.symvoules.com/prosperity-versus-liberation A speaker on stage addressing a large audience in an indoor venue with screens displaying his image.

A speaker on stage addressing a large audience in an indoor venue with screens displaying his image.

How Pentecostalism’s prosperity gospel replaced Catholic liberation theology in Latin American life

- by Elle Hardy

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:25 +0200 symvoules Prosperity, versus, liberation Electric garden https://feed.symvoules.com/electric-garden https://feed.symvoules.com/electric-garden Colourful, whimsical house with ornate details and greenery in foreground, photo taken outdoors in daylight.

Colourful, whimsical house with ornate details and greenery in foreground, photo taken outdoors in daylight.

Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum, part work of art, and wholly individual

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:25 +0200 symvoules Electric, garden Psychodynamic nonsense https://feed.symvoules.com/psychodynamic-nonsense https://feed.symvoules.com/psychodynamic-nonsense Abstract painting of two distorted faces with geometric shapes in orange, purple and brown tones.

Abstract painting of two distorted faces with geometric shapes in orange, purple and brown tones.

After decades of practising psychotherapy, I believe it has little foundation in science and often causes harm

- by Niklas Serning

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:25 +0200 symvoules Psychodynamic, nonsense Curiosity and control https://feed.symvoules.com/curiosity-and-control https://feed.symvoules.com/curiosity-and-control Photo of a giraffe seen through an arched doorway with brick and blue tiled walls in a zoo environment.

Photo of a giraffe seen through an arched doorway with brick and blue tiled walls in a zoo environment.

What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about the world, or a need to dominate it?

- by Aeon Video

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:25 +0200 symvoules Curiosity, and, control The truth about fiction https://feed.symvoules.com/the-truth-about-fiction https://feed.symvoules.com/the-truth-about-fiction Two weathered, clay duck sculptures facing each other against a grey background.

Two weathered, clay duck sculptures facing each other against a grey background.

What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself

- by Hannah H Kim

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:53:25 +0200 symvoules The, truth, about, fiction