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Angles of love

In his short film Angles of Love, the UK-based artist and demographic scientist Vincent Straub asks friends, family and strangers the question:...

Aeon Video

Listen to this essay On the Hebridean island where I live, off the western coast of Scotland, windy days are smelly ones because large amounts of...

‘The American aborigines, Negroes and Europeans differ as much from each other in mind as any three races that can be named; yet I was incessantly...

Listen to this essay Attend almost any medical appointment today and you’ll likely hear the word inflammation hovering in the background like a...

Following the first detection of an exoplanet – that is, a planet outside our solar system – in 1992, discoveries have exploded alongside advances...

Listen to this essay I look at my Fitbit and note despondently that I have done only 2,247 steps today. I haven’t met my ‘hydration goal’ or...

Listen to this essay ‘Do you have the 20 bucks you promised me for gas?’ I twisted the key in the ignition. The staccato heaving of my electric...