Category: ideas
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Is there an ‘indigenous’ Europe?
What does “indigenous” mean in Western European countries like the Netherlands and Belgium? What stories and knowledge of the land have been lost over the course of centuries? Have we lost ourselves, perhaps, too? Is there a way to reconnect to our own ‘indigenousness’?
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Forced Perspective, Avian Edition
It turns out humans are not the only species that uses visual trickery: the bowerbird constructs elaborate architectural seductions, complete with forced perspective.
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The Fiction Fix: Cognitive Fluidity & Fake News
Steven Mithen explains cognitive fluidity in his book The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science. Our brain mixes up different realities, leading to surprising combinations. I propose an idea that follows up on this: perhaps some people’s desperation for a fiction fix helps them fall into conspiracy traps.
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Bling: why people like shiny things
An insight on why people like shiny things, based on my own affinity with shiny surfaces.
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