Have a second helping of links to articles at aeon.co, for all your random intellectual grazing needs. HISTORY https://aeon.co/ideas/the-madras-observatory-from-jesuit-cooperation-to-british-rule https://aeon.co/ideas/how-white-people-were-invented-by-a-playwright-in-1613 ECON https://aeon.co/ideas/the-economy-is-more-a-messy-fractal-living-thing-than-a-machine https://aeon.co/essays/how-economists-rode-maths-to-become-our-era-s-astrologers https://aeon.co/essays/the-anglo-saxon-is-not-american-or-british-but-a-french-alter-ego ETHICS https://aeon.co/essays/if-your-pay-is-not-yours-to-keep-then-neither-is-the-tax https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-bloody-field-of-battle-made-way-for-precision-drones POLITICS https://aeon.co/essays/does-photography-make-us-act-or-inure-us-to-despair https://aeon.co/essays/the-end-of-a-world-of-nation-states-may-be-upon-us https://aeon.co/essays/why-a-moratorium-on-microaggressions-policies-is-needed NATURE htt
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