Maria Auxent
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Maria Auxent
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Maria Avxentevskaya (Auxent), MSCA Fellow at the Warburg Institute.
I study the history of science, medicine, scientific language and communication—and tend to talk about historical figures as if I knew them personally.
Bearing in mind the Warburg Institute’s tradition of studying the art of memory, I really enjoyed this excellent podcast on cognitive offloading—from counting on our fingers to relying on photos, other people and AI. What do we gain or lose? open.spotify.com/episode/2emj...
Cognitive offloading and its consequences
Many Minds · Episode
open.spotify.com
September 30, 2026 at 9:38 PM
A humanist feast at the Warburg Institute this week! Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) gave the E.H. Gombrich Lecture Series 2026, “Joseph Scaliger in Leiden (1593-1609): Culmination and Crisis of a Learned Life” warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 27, 2026 at 7:38 AM