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The measure of flourishing Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship...
Timelapse of the Universe Timelapse of the future The Universe in motion The sights of space: a voyage to spectacular alien worlds The cosmic distance...
The violence specialists Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others? by...
Who are the fire-tamers? From remote farmhouses to oncology clinics, a secret world of French healers works in parallel with conventional medicine by...
Being in the world: rules and risk In the American West, a man named Hat sets out to leave no trace What does it mean to live an authentic life? This...
The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion by Christine Abigail L Tan ...
And Granny would dance Red dress. No straps. Now I’m in the kitchen West question East answer Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated...
From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed Photo by Busà...
Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself by Martin Puchner BIO...
The ancient hookup that changed humanity Seven million years of human evolution Animated life: Mary Leakey 550 million years of human evolution...
Female philosophers: Héloïse Hypatia of Alexandria Why do we love? A philosophical enquiry Mary Beard: women and power An interview with Simone de...
Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology by John MacDonald BIO Workington in...
Therapy for billionaires As my grandfather’s billions taught, wealth can be a poison. The rich must reckon with its costs to recover their humanity...
Our neighbors, the peacocks Pigeon kings of Brooklyn Voices of the Pacific Flyway Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks,...
The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think by Sandrine Bergès BIO...
Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon. Nick Land glimpsed something much darker Illustration by Martin...
Who decides what art means? Michael Rakowitz: haunting the West Microscopically reweaving a 1907 painting Consciousness and creation: the neuroscience...
When the LAPD blows up your neighborhood Ed Ruscha: Sunset Boulevard and other LA streets An all-encompassing light Aeon Video has a monthly...
Yes, we’re in a world of our own: for the autistic mind, it’s a place of intense curiosity, deep focus and sensory delight by Sarah Hendrickx ...
What shape is the Earth? The extraordinary challenge of determining the true shape of Earth reveals the deep value of measurement to scientific...
The engineering method Eric Laithwaite: shaping things to come Three pioneers who predicted climate change The cosmic distance ladder with Terence...
Artist of sympathy and cruelty Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching...
Flickering Enlightenment Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique by...
The need for a new bioethics Seeing the invisible: van Leeuwenhoek’s first glimpses of the microbial world Can you transplant a head to another...
Since you arrived, my heart stopped belonging to me Dafa metti (Difficult) Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks...
The embattled witnesses The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses...
Can ecosystems malfunction? We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts Jarno...
Fishcakes and cocaine Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more. Tour...
Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace by Tom Wooldridge BIO Photo by...
Make immigration boring The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs by...
Decoding ancestral knowledge Slingshots of the oceanic She never dances alone Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks...
A film is a goodbye that never ends Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations...
Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls Besieging the pirates in...
Mathematics is out there Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention A...
How death came to Earth Baat wahi hai (It’s the same story) The celestial affair that made us mortal – an animated Indian myth This short...
Gen Z but two centuries ago A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise by...
Talk as much as you like about human rights, nothing will change until the architecture of global finance is reformed by Attiya Waris BIO Touts on...
The Battle of San Romano Ins holz (In the woods) Synchronising fireflies Blaulicht (Blue light) Zimoun: selected works Aeon Video has a monthly...
While you were sleeping Notes from a news stand Parking problem solved Meet the bounty hunters who enforce New York’s idling vehicle ban Every day,...
Beneath our human shallows We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface by...
Children are apprentices The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress by...
Connecting prisons with nature Geographies of racial capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore Solitary confinement is crazy loud Inside, the valley sings...
The eye in your pocket Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move by...
1,000 years of Japanese swords The Japanese sword as the soul of the samurai Samurai rules for peace and war The Great Wave by Hokusai I-Kiribati...
The Ethiopian running secret One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons by...
Who invented bad guys? The ‘evil god challenge’ The free will defence: a good god vs the problem of evil The problem with dead women How morals...
To be is to participate For Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, a person is not self-contained, but the outcome of a lifelong process of living with others: we before...
Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of? by Felix Flicker ...
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