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Slingshots of the oceanic The last ice merchant As glaciers melt, a writer considers what stories can do that data cannot The Icelandic writer and...
Towards an AI for Africa Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life by...
Thucydides the perspicacious Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all...
Ani Liu: eye heart womb Now I’m in the kitchen Firelei Báez: an open horizon Transforming scientific enquiry and human bodies into visceral art For...
Resist the technocrats Through international organisations, they wield power under the pretence of simply following the experts. Don’t believe them...
How art invented humanity When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images...
The other side of the mountain Down from the mountains The workforce of elderly women recycling what Vietnam throws away Sixty-four-year-old Bể...
How to spot pseudoscience Karl Popper’s falsification Alison Gopnik: Why philosophy of science? What do we need to know? The problem of harassment...
My father’s death sent me to the jiu-jitsu mat. Then came defeat, low testosterone and the lure of a chemical cheat code Photo by Eduardo...
The taming of Black thought Black philosophers now feature on Western curricula, but the European tradition diminishes their radicalism into...
In search of the northern cassowary Island of the hornbills Vogelkop superb bird-of-paradise King of Saxony: otherworldly calls The wild courtship...
Allan Basbaum has spent 50 years searching the nervous system for the places where pain begins – and where it can be stopped by Stephani...
The savage bites back Rooted in Brazilian modernism, anthropophagy devours and transforms culture, subverting colonial fears of cannibalism by Sofia...
Charting animal cognition The hidden world of plant roots Why did consciousness evolve? A spark of consciousness What is life? Is death real? Is AI...
Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey The Angelus (1857-59) by...
Every 122 years, Venus crosses the Sun as a black and fleeting teardrop, kindling the awe of all those who dare to know by Ananya Palivela BIO The...
How to offset your brain From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help by...
Africa’s cultural landmarks: rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia Africa’s cultural landmarks: rock-hewn churches of Tigray, Ethiopia...
‘The emperor is far away’ Ming Dynasty China left us copious texts, but these veil the lives of the vast majority of its people from our view by...
Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work? by Joshua Habgood-Coote BIO...
A trip down memory lane Jazz and innovative animation form a sensory swirl in this 1949 short Warning: this film features rapidly flashing images that...
The testimonies of Ukraine’s war widows reveal the mortal risk of love and the possibility of dying while alive: a black pain Olga and her daughter...
The anguish of choice In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains by Skye C...
Karl Hess: toward liberty Small is beautiful: impressions of Fritz Schumacher The search for America: human fulfilment A night at the Garden Being in...
Noguchi’s New York animations Built ecologies: Emilio Ambasz James Wines: nature’s revenge Jean Nouvel: reflections In Noguchi’s unrealised...
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...
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