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A musician and a storyteller collaborate in a daily duet of words and music | Aeon Videos
‘There was once a man, so old that most of his family and all his friends had left this world before him…’ In 2013, the Scottish author and poet James Robertson wrote a story every day for a year, each … Continue reading
Adam Savage Interviews Author Mary Roach – The Talking Room
While researching topics for her books, author Mary Roach puts the obscure and fascinating stories of science under a spotlight. Her books cover a diverse range of topics, including sex, colonizing Mars, death, and the human alimentary canal. Please welcome … Continue reading
Mary Roach in Conversation with Peter Sagal
One of the most intrepid—and funniest—science writers working today, Mary Roach has explored sex (Bonk), corpses (Stiff), and digestion (Gulp). For her latest, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, Roach’s field research has taken her from Djibouti to … Continue reading
True love lies beyond the claustrophobia of romance | Aeon Essays
True love: more made than found. Rome, 1994. Photo by Steve McCurry/Magnum Forget the modern romantic notion of ‘the one’. True love means looking beyond the couple and out towards life It is a telling statistic that the most … Continue reading
Librarian Saved Thousands of Historical Manuscripts From Being Destroyed | My Modern Met
By Madeleine Muzdakis on September 12, 2021 Manuscripts at the Ahmed Baba Centre, Timbuktu, in 2013. (Photo: UNESCO via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) A librarian named Abdel Kader Haidara secretly saved hundreds of thousands of manuscripts from being … Continue reading
Writer Michael Rosen on politics, poems and the darkest days of his fight with Covid-19
His cheeky, clever and irreverent stories have captivated generations of children and adults. Yet while Michael Rosen’s wry sense of humour shines through in his latest book, “Many Different Kinds of Love” also deals with a truly terrifying chapter in … Continue reading
Hidden Math in Alice in Wonderland
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Live Tea and Jeopardy show with George R.R. Martin
A recording of the live Tea and Jeopardy show filmed at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki, August 2017
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