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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 ...
Five graphs that changed the world Virtual ancient Rome: walking from the Colosseum to the Forum De artificiali perspectiva, or anamorphosis Aeon...
How to see the first movies Strange continuity: why our brains don’t explode at film cuts Can I remember it differently? A propulsive ode to ‘the...
You’ve lived this life before The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived...
The sterilisation-seekers In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity by...
Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more. Reindeer politics – why...
Patterns without desires The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them? by Noah...
White-collar sweatshops How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? by Dylan Gottlieb BIO...
Travelling at the speed of light Plunge into a black hole Visualising spacetime Timelapse of the future The sights of space: a voyage to spectacular...
(Unofficial) history of the National Parks Do you think science… Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the...
Living without my self Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence by Mette...
Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis by Assa Doron & Alex Broom ...