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The disastrous redesign of Pakistan’s rivers
By Michiel Curfs - February 09, 2023
British colonizers created a massive canal system in Pakistan — and helped ca...

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The man who first discovered plastic in the ocean
By Michiel Curfs - January 17, 2023
In 1971, marine biologist Edward Carpenter made a shocking discovery, finding...

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A disturbing 1995 prediction by Carl Sagan accurately describes America today
By Michiel Curfs - January 13, 2023
VIDEO Carl Sagan discussed a few American cultural phenomena of the time, lik...

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A disturbing 1995 prediction by Carl Sagan accurately describes America today
By Michiel Curfs - January 13, 2023
Carl Sagan discussed a few American cultural phenomena of the time, like the ...

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Sierra Madre: Fighting to save what’s left of a vital rainforest
By Michiel Curfs - January 09, 2023
Francisco Elle is haunted by the faces of children he could not save. He once...

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In Memoriam 2022: The stars and icons who left us this year
By Michiel Curfs - December 31, 2022
Here are some of the names in culture, entertainment and the arts that we've ...

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Anarchy, Sex and Kilts: Vivienne Westwood’s most iconic looks
By Michiel Curfs - December 31, 2022
Pioneering fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood will be missed. She pushed...

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Splitting the truth: the philosopher that physics forgot | Aeon Videos
By Michiel Curfs - December 28, 2022
VIDEO In the early 20th century, Newtonian physics was upended by experiments...

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5 Zen masters and what they taught
By Michiel Curfs - December 28, 2022
The idea of a Zen master is well known, but not everyone can name one. Zen ma...

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How Christmas trees stopped being just a German thing
By Michiel Curfs - December 26, 2022
How exactly did Christmas trees become a tradition? After all, it’s a little ...

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At 95, an artist paints swiftly to capture the fugitive light | Aeon Videos
By Michiel Curfs - December 25, 2022
‘I’m trying to get into where the jazz musicians are – the immediate present....

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Forged from fire: how swords shaped China and Europe’s culture
By Michiel Curfs - December 24, 2022
Forged 2,600 years ago, the Longquan Sword was the first of its kind to be ma...

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From boomers to zoomers: A simple guide to each generational cohort
By Michiel Curfs - December 18, 2022
Millennials, Gen Zs, boomers… We’ve all heard these terms in popular culture ...

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The Muppet Christmas Carol turns 30: how the film became a cult classic
By Michiel Curfs - December 16, 2022
Despite their era, genre or industry, cult films stand out because audiences ...

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Edward Hopper came of age with cinema. As an artist, he left a lasting mark on it | Aeon Videos
By Michiel Curfs - December 08, 2022
Through keen comparisons rendered side by side, Payne makes a compelling argu...

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CULTURE RE-VIEW: A look back at this day in history
By Michiel Curfs - December 02, 2022
2 December 1983: Michael Jackson's 14-minute "Thriller" video debuts on MTV. ...

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Murmurations: Accountable Endings
By Michiel Curfs - November 30, 2022
We are at the end of a world. Again. Which means we are at the beginning of a...

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This Moroccan café has brought Hollywood’s ‘Casablanca’ to life
By Michiel Curfs - November 25, 2022
"The place is a unique experience, nostalgic and romantic. You have to see it...

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Mississippi Delta: where history is made
By Michiel Curfs - November 10, 2022
The Mississippi Delta is the birthplace of the Blues and the home of the Civi...

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Mentors change lives. Find one, be one
By Michiel Curfs - November 03, 2022
Mentors are pathbreakers, sometimes knowing you better than you know yourself...

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Bruno Latour showed us how to think with the things of the world | Aeon Essays
By Michiel Curfs - October 29, 2022
For Latour, who was one of most influential and provocative thinkers of the p...

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Dracula at 125: how Bram Stoker’s vampire is a monstrous creation of terrifying sleep disorders
By Michiel Curfs - October 29, 2022
Having celebrated the 125th anniversary of its 1897 publication earlier this ...

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Murmurations: Accountable to Our Ancestors
By Michiel Curfs - October 28, 2022
How can we be accountable to those who lived and died before us? There is a s...

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Remembering a loved one’s voice forever through an artwork
By Michiel Curfs - September 30, 2022
Humans have always memorialised people and events through physical objects. W...

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‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ rapper Coolio dies at age 59
By Michiel Curfs - September 29, 2022
Coolio won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for 'Gangsta's Paradise', t...

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Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who ended cold war, dies aged 91
By Michiel Curfs - August 31, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader whose reforms led to the unlooked...

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‘Beja Power!’: Music as resistance on Sudan’s Red Sea coast
By Michiel Curfs - July 07, 2022
The long-marginalised Beja people seek to keep their culture alive through mu...

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World is losing ‘magical’ tradition of human-animal mutualism, study warns
By Michiel Curfs - June 16, 2022
Honey gatherers working with birds to find wild bees’ nests; fishers working ...

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‘Accidental Napalm’ turns 50: the generation-defining image capturing the futility of the Vietnam war
By Michiel Curfs - June 07, 2022
How does an image become an icon? It is estimated that we now produce more im...

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Taylor Hawkins: a joyous presence whose true allegiance was always to Foo Fighters
By Michiel Curfs - March 27, 2022
Hawkins’ true allegiance was always to Foo Fighters. Treasured by the Foos’ l...

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Conservationists in Chile are giving this species a fighting chance
By Michiel Curfs - March 22, 2022
Douglas Tompkins, the founder of The North Face and Esprit sadly died in an a...

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Dubai’s Museum of the Future
By Michiel Curfs - March 19, 2022
VIDEO. The Museum of the Future has opened in Dubai. The seven-storey pillarl...

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Healing with music: A Moroccan NGO revives the spiritual practice
By Michiel Curfs - March 17, 2022
Speaking in a radio interview in the 1980s, Dr Abderrahmane told of historica...

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Pritzker Prize 2022: Francis Kéré becomes first African to win ‘Nobel of architecture’
By Michiel Curfs - March 16, 2022
The first African architect to claim the award in its 43-year history, Kéré a...

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This new award wants to become the ‘Nobel Prize’ for young naturalists
By Michiel Curfs - March 14, 2022
Nominations open today for a new prize to help young people around the world ...

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‘Bob Marley turned up in a bad mood’ – Esther Anderson’s best photograph
By Michiel Curfs - March 11, 2022
To me, the photo is like a prayer, as if Bob was saying: “I am looking out at...

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Meet the Greek fisherman cleaning up the Mediterranean Sea
By Michiel Curfs - November 30, 2021
Lefteris Arapakis was born into a family of fishermen. "We don't want to pro...

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‘Still on the road to hell’: what the papers say about Cop26
By Michiel Curfs - November 14, 2021
After days of painful wrangling, the Cop26 summit finally delivered a watered...

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Thom Baker 🔥 on LinkedIn: #climatechange #cop26 #climateaction | 98 comments
By Michiel Curfs - November 07, 2021
If you watch one thing this week on the COP26 - make it this from the PM of B...

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Zimbabwe’s Tsitsi Dangarembga awarded German Book Trade’s Peace Prize ｜ DPA
By Michiel Curfs - October 25, 2021
The jury called the 62-year-old "not only one of the most important artists i...

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Archaeologists amazed by Peru’s ‘mind-blowing’ ancient solar calendar built into desert
By Michiel Curfs - September 17, 2021
An ancient Peruvian civilisation built it around two millennia before the asc...

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The underwater forest growing in the Med
By Michiel Curfs - August 17, 2021
The artist behind the world's first underwater sculpture park has just unveil...

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