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Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/the-myth-of-philanthropy-why-billionaires-won-t-save-us Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch What started with the notion of lending a helping hand, charitable work is no longer at the core of philanthropy in today’s world. Tax evasion and personal political gains have tainted the hands of the world’s wealthiest givers, causing a huge wealth gap that […]
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To get started for free, visit https://brilliant.org/Aperture/ and the first 1,000 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/what-if-the-earth-were-flat Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch Throughout history, groups of people have been resurfacing pushing the notion that the Earth, our tiny blue planet floating in space, is in […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/should-we-seek-immortality Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch Although we’ve been socialized to accept death as an inevitability, and live our lives knowing that its looming shadow will one day catch up with us, many of us might never really come to terms with it. Throughout our evolution, we’ve come up with […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/agriculture-humanity-s-best-worst-invention Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch For nearly 300,000 years, we went where we pleased, whenever we pleased. We explored a world mostly untouched by human hands. We ate a wide variety of rich, healthy, fresh-picked food. And without work to tie us down, we spent almost all our time […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/live-like-you-re-dying Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch It seems that underneath our modern and somewhat glamorized understanding of what it means to live like we’re dying, lie much more sober and pragmatic questions that we rarely ever take the time to ask ourselves. If you only had just one week left […]
To get started for free, visit https://brilliant.org/Aperture/ and the first 1000 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/daoism-the-key-to-inner-peace Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch Daoism views the ideal human existence as one that relates strictly to nature and the Universe. It stresses that to truly live well, […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/the-urge-to-jump Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch Have you ever stood near the edge of a cliff with only a short fence separating you from the chasm below? As you held on tightly to that fence, did you feel a sudden urge to throw yourself off the cliff? This feeling is […]
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