Plus: Also on Aeon this week ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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Saturday 13 September 2025
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Essay / Illness and disease
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Frontotemporal dementia is rare and ruthless. When it robbed Katie of her husband at 33, his story became her life’s work
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Lynn Hallarman
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Also on Aeon this week
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Essay / Cosmology
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Jim Baggott
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Essay / Virtues and vices
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Katie Ebner-Landy
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Video / Childhood and adolescence
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Video by PDA Films
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Fixations with agricultural productivity have become tangled up with notions of progress and modernity
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Samuel F Derbyshire, an anthropologist and the author of Remembering Turkana: Material Histories and Contemporary Livelihoods in North-western Kenya (2020)
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Read the Essay
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