#AeonMagazine

"My life in Pakistan, full of painful nothing, had left a flat landscape inside my head. Not a bleak, dead one. That would almost have been easier. This flat landscape seared with painful livingness."

For #AeonMagazine, Noreen Masud reflects on the flat landscapes of the UK and recalls the pain and trauma from her childhood in #Pakistan: https://aeon.co/essays/flat-places-are-the-ground-that-my-mind-is-built-upon

#Longreads #Essay #Memoir #Nature #Landscape #Psychiatry

"Too often in the West, dogs are seen through the prism of pedigree, and connected to their owner via collars and leashes. All too often, the realities of how dogs and humans live together in the Global South are overlooked."

Krithika Srinivasan for #AeonMagazine: https://aeon.co/essays/dogs-on-indias-streets-can-be-freer-and-happier-than-many-pets

#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Nonfiction #Dogs #Animals #Pets #India #Coexistence

Children of the Ice Age

"For more than 200 years, children have been neglected by archaeologists. It was part of a disciplinary bias towards adult men in archaeological interpretations. This began to change in the 1970s and ’80s with the rise of feminist archaeology and the archaeology of gender..." cgc373 posted Aeon Magazine's article by April Nowell.

https://www.metafilter.com/198352/Children-of-the-Ice-Age

#archaeology #history #science #anthropology #paleolithic #IceAge #children #youth #AeonMagazine #AprilNowell

If you're looking for some quality science writing, my friend Olivia Judson has a new piece over at Aeon (no paywall).

"Darwin, of course, is famous for his work on evolution. His book On the Origin of Species (1859) laid out a wealth of evidence that evolution occurs, and proposed a mechanism – natural selection – for how it does so. Although much has been learned since, and many of his ideas have been extended, corrected or refined, the Origin remains the founding text of modern biology, and is the pinnacle of Darwin’s work. But Darwin’s first scientific monograph and his last – the two bookends of his thoughts, so to speak – were both about how animals have, over vast spans of time, transformed the landscape."

#Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Geology #Aeon #AeonMagazine #Darwin

https://aeon.co/essays/the-insight-of-darwins-work-on-corals-worms-and-co-evolution