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The physics of dissonance

Dissonance and harmony might seem straightforward, but a deep dive into the physics reveals their delightful complexity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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Life is complicated. In Cameroon, initiated diviners read the messages of spiders to untangle possible futures - by David Zeitlyn Read at Aeon

It looked like a piece of driftwood floating in muddy floodwaters. But then it grew a pair of eyes that peered above the waterline. As the canoe...

The most familiar celestial objects, like Earth, the Moon and the Sun, are spheres. The solar system’s planets have orbits that are roughly...

More than just a dramatic and devastating change in one’s life trajectory, losing an intimate partner can leave widows and widowers experiencing a...

In this video, Angus Patterson, the senior curator of metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, explores a somewhat innocuous-looking...

Sheilah Miller (a fictional character, though representative of a widespread phenomenon) is a 39-year-old Black woman who was admitted to the...