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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 ...
John Rawls’s blueprint for utopia What would a fair society look like? Plato’s philosopher kings The truth about algorithms The ethical dilemma of...
Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too by Charles Foster BIO Photo...
Sarnevesht (Daughter) Red dress. No straps. Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film...
The origins of Indians Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture by Kiran...
Nature’s hardware store: building the future with biology Could we have babies in space? Further: Jeffrey Hoffman Can a thousand tiny swarming...
The origins of Indians Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture by Kiran...
Nature’s hardware store: building the future with biology Could we have babies in space? Further: Jeffrey Hoffman Can a thousand tiny swarming...
Sarnevesht (Daughter) Red dress. No straps. Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film...
Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too by Charles Foster BIO Photo...
Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of? by Felix Flicker ...
John Rawls’s blueprint for utopia What would a fair society look like? Plato’s philosopher kings The truth about algorithms The ethical dilemma of...
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...
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...
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...
Hunting ‘Man the Hunter’ For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many...
The Black executioner Medieval artists depicted bodies as vehicles for politics and hierarchy. Repeated enough, these roles began to appear natural by...
Africa’s cultural landmarks: Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove, Nigeria Africa’s cultural landmarks: Sikien of Koutammakou Africa’s cultural...
Does reading do us any good? Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead...
No nature without fear Aldo Leopold saw this in the eyes of a dying wolf: when we no longer fear nature, we are on the road to its destruction by...
Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more. Searching for superbug...
Five years after the war The car that came back from the sea Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the...
Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return by Likam Kyanzaire BIO...
A brain fit for the 21st century is one that understands – and respects – its own bioenergetic foundations by Hannah Critchlow BIO A coloured...
The engineering method The impossible architecture of Étienne-Louis Boullée Gödel’s incompleteness theorem The cosmic distance ladder with...
The invention of the soul Humans weren’t given souls by God or genes. We made them ourselves with language – turning sentience into something...
Peering into the origins of our Universe, astronomers found something that shouldn’t be there: what are those little red dots? by Jenny Greene ...
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