Mastodawn

"Life can exist on orders of magnitude lower power and sustain their living cells for orders of magnitude more years than previously thought possible. This means that many of these living beings bump up against the energetic limits of life, and in the process seem to have cracked the code for near-immortality. These types of intraterrestrials have such extremely long lifespans that we need a new term to describe the type of extremophiles that they are. The word aeonophiles fits, since they like (-phile) long periods of time (aeon-)."

https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life

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The discovery of aeonophiles expands our definition of life | Aeon Essays

The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life

Not trying hard enough 🦎Oct 10

I love thinking about this stuff:

Are observers fundamental to physics, or simply byproducts of it?

https://aeon.co/videos/are-observers-fundamental-to-physics-or-simply-byproducts-of-it

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Are observers fundamental to physics, or simply byproducts of it? | Aeon Videos

What role, if any, does the observer play in fundamental physics? A cosmologist lays out the leading theories in the field

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Not trying hard enough 🦎Sep 20

Like a cheery Sisyphus, Fred dismantles an industrial chimney one brick at a time

https://aeon.co/videos/like-a-cheery-sisyphus-fred-dismantles-an-industrial-chimney-one-brick-at-a-time

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Like a cheery Sisyphus, Fred dismantles an industrial chimney one brick at a time | Aeon Videos

‘I didn’t think I’d get the job!’ How the cheery steeplejack Fred Dibnah dismantled an industrial chimney one brick at a time

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Falling forward 🍉Sep 7, 2025

Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions

This is very good.

https://aeon.co/videos/bright-nights-lonely-crowds-a-tokyo-train-speeds-through-urban-contradictions

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Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions | Aeon Videos

Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions

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Falling forward 🍉Aug 31, 2025

Night life

Back on the islands of my childhood, I’m clinging to sobriety, searching for a rare bird that’s also on the brink

https://aeon.co/essays/on-the-lonely-midnight-trail-of-orkney-s-corncrakes

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On the lonely midnight trail of Orkney’s corncrakes | Aeon Essays

Back on the islands of my childhood, I’m clinging to sobriety, searching for a rare bird that’s also on the brink

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Falling forward 🍉Aug 31, 2025

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the
hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you
with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Me, myself and I
Loneliness can be a shameful hunger, a shell, a dangerous landscape of shadowy figures. But it is also a gift
https://aeon.co/essays/nyc-blue-what-the-pain-of-loneliness-tells-us

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