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The word can morph from noun to verb to adjective, from dog to human, from female to male. What will it do next? by Karen Stollznow BIO The US...
This must be the place Taller than the trees Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film...
As the 18th-century war between mechanism and romanticism returns, we face a new question: can we build artificial souls? by Peter Wolfendale BIO...
Alone in the wilderness Anaiyyun: prayer for the whale Voices of the Pacific Flyway Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks,...
Since living requires choosing, we will always feel regret about the paths not taken. But what matters is the future we forge by Tasha Kleeman BIO...
In the early 20th century, Emmy Noether’s mathematics transcended the physical world. She longed to do the same herself by Julia Ravanis BIO Emmy...
Henri Bergson: Creative Evolution Henri Bergson: The Possible and the Real Leibniz: The Monadology Being in the world: from Plato to Heidegger Lee...
African philosophical values of harmony and vitality have much to offer our thinking about what we owe to ourselves by Thaddeus Metz BIO Addis...
Technologies of preserving and reviving organisms are already redefining the meaning of life, death, and extinction itself by Sadiah Qureshi BIO...
What is electronic music? Delia Derbyshire and Doctor Who Dan Tepfer’s player piano is his composing partner Music tech at the Voxel Lab The secret...
Perfecting the art of longing Can I remember it differently? One man’s poignant search for community via radio waves A unique and deeply moving...
Does culture make emotion? Franz Boas helps us solve the puzzle of where our emotional lives originate: in our selves or in the cultures around us The...
The eye of the mathematician Is mathematical beauty real? Or is it just a subjective, human ‘wow’ that is becoming redundant in an AI age?...
Ever behind the sunset Can I remember it differently? In fragments: phase change The other side of the mountain Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter!...
Neat ethical principles have nothing to say to doctors like me, faced with the brutal, bloody compromises of hospital life by Ronald W Dworkin BIO...
Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook remains shocking, necessary and imperfect – a dazzling experiment in living as a woman by Catherine Taylor BIO...
Ni N’akul nid’as (Free people) Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations...
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The insurance catastrophe Whole regions of the world are now uninsurable, bringing radical uncertainty to the economy. How do we fix the problem? A...
Who is Walter Mignolo? A prominent architect of decolonial theory, his diagnosis of European colonial ills is both penetrating and flawed by Federico...
Great art explained: Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 Great art explained: Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez Why Henry VIII’s...
There are no psychopaths Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on? by...
The presence of power The Indian thinker Rammohun Roy believed that good governance must be close: distance made the British Empire cruel by Shomik...
What science tells us about the afterlife The immortality paradox The love and death of Yosef and Zilli What does dying really feel like? When half of...
One breath around the world Dark side of the lens Paul Pfeiffer: interrupting the broadcast One breath: the story of William Trubridge Small brains en...
From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits by Julian Baggini ...
Conservation’s prejudice Ecology is pervaded by a nativist dogma against invasive species that distorts the science and undermines wildness by...
Virtual ancient Rome: walking from the Colosseum to the Forum Deconstructing the Colosseum Hoplites! Greeks at war The modern invention of white...
Going-against-the-grainers If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention? by...
The Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures the true vulnerability of our existence by Carlos Alberto Sánchez ...
Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s time travels Great art explained: José María Velasco Firelei Báez: an open horizon The immediate present Now I know...
Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time by Carlo Iacono BIO Photo...
If I told it: an imperfect portrait of ChatGPT Everything is a remix: AI and image generation Large language models explained Letters live: generative...
A father and son’s search for the line where the snow starts ‘Why do you think I brought you here?’ In Snow Line, the Vancouver-based filmmaker...
Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth by Graham Shields BIO A...
Guarding the guardians Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work? by...
In their visions of the underworld Dante and Milton were truly subversive, incorporating predecessors into their own repudiation- by Charlie...
David’s handcrafted figurines pay tribute to cultural icons. His latest project takes on his greatest hero, his late brother- by Aeon VideoWatch on...
A jaunty song calls for greater appreciation of Indian wool, as imports undermine the livelihoods of local herders- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms- by Yogi Hale HendlinRead on...
Sea pandas or sadistic killers? These enigmatic creatures invite contradictory labels that say far more about us than them- by Jason ColbyRead on Aeon
Is time a property of the Universe? Yes, if you conceive of it as heat: a mind-boggling yet oddly comforting perspective- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition- by Jonathan R GoodmanRead...
In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature- by Takeshi...
Rising far above the desert, the walls of these magnificent hills carry the ancient story of humanity’s creative spark- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
To master our own lives, we must venture beyond the rules and embrace risk – Heidegger’s philosophy grounded in real life- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
The metaphor of rewiring offers an ideal of engineered precision. But the brain is more like a forest than a circuit board- by Peter LukacsRead on...
In Southeast Asia’s scam compounds, workers are being enslaved but the boundary between victim and perpetrator is blurred- by Ivan Franceschini &...
It was a rust bucket, sure, but this car delivered the most precious good to a group of friends in 1980s Poland: freedom- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Despite associations with the idle rich, the fact that inheritances are rising is a sign of a healthy, growing economy- by Daniel WaldenströmRead on...
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