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Rights require money

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...

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Attiya waris

Silvesterchlausen

The Battle of San Romano Ins holz (In the woods) Synchronising fireflies Blaulicht (Blue light) Zimoun: selected works Aeon Video has a monthly...

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Idle warriors

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,...

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Beneath our human shallows

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...

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James dinneen

Children are apprentices

Children are apprentices The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress by...

11.05.2026 50

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Niklas serning & nina lyon

Classroom 4

Connecting prisons with nature Geographies of racial capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore Solitary confinement is crazy loud Inside, the valley sings...

11.05.2026 50

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The eye in your pocket

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...

08.05.2026 70

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Carissa véliz

1,000 years of Japanese swords

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...

08.05.2026 50

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The Ethiopian running secret

The Ethiopian running secret One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons by...

08.05.2026 60

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Michael crawley & geoff burns

Who invented bad guys?

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...

08.05.2026 50

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To be is to participate

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...

08.05.2026 50

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João de pina-cabral

Reality emerges

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of? by Felix Flicker  ...

08.05.2026 50

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Felix flicker

Democracy by lottery

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...

08.05.2026 50

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Embrace the edge!

Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too by Charles Foster  BIO Photo...

08.05.2026 50

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Charles foster

Sarnevesht (Daughter)

Sarnevesht (Daughter) Red dress. No straps. Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film...

08.05.2026 40

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The origins of Indians

The origins of Indians Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture by Kiran...

08.05.2026 80

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Kiran kumbhar

Nature’s hardware store: building the future with biology

Nature’s hardware store: building the future with biology Could we have babies in space? Further: Jeffrey Hoffman Can a thousand tiny swarming...

08.05.2026 50

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The origins of Indians

The origins of Indians Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture by Kiran...

07.05.2026 100

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Kiran kumbhar

Nature’s hardware store: building the future with biology

Nature’s hardware store: building the future with biology Could we have babies in space? Further: Jeffrey Hoffman Can a thousand tiny swarming...

07.05.2026 60

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Sarnevesht (Daughter)

Sarnevesht (Daughter) Red dress. No straps. Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film...

06.05.2026 50

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Embrace the edge!

Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too by Charles Foster  BIO Photo...

05.05.2026 60

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Charles foster

Reality emerges

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of? by Felix Flicker  ...

04.05.2026 70

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Felix flicker

Democracy by lottery

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...

04.05.2026 60

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To be is to participate

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...

01.05.2026 90

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João de pina-cabral

The Ethiopian running secret

The Ethiopian running secret One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons by...

30.04.2026 90

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Michael crawley & geoff burns

Who invented bad guys?

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...

30.04.2026 70

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Aeon Video

1,000 years of Japanese swords

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...

29.04.2026 70

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Hunting ‘Man the Hunter’

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...

28.04.2026 100

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Vivek V Venkataraman

The Black executioner

The Black executioner Medieval artists depicted bodies as vehicles for politics and hierarchy. Repeated enough, these roles began to appear natural by...

27.04.2026 80

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Denva gallant

Africa’s cultural landmarks: Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove, Nigeria

Africa’s cultural landmarks: Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove, Nigeria Africa’s cultural landmarks: Sikien of Koutammakou Africa’s cultural...

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Does reading do us any good?

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...

24.04.2026 100

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Flora champy

No nature without fear

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...

23.04.2026 90

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Shawn simpson

Life invisible

Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more. Searching for superbug...

23.04.2026 70

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Butterfly (Papillon)

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...

22.04.2026 80

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Justice is geometric

Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return by Likam Kyanzaire  BIO...

21.04.2026 80

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Likam kyanzaire

Fuel for thought

A brain fit for the 21st century is one that understands – and respects – its own bioenergetic foundations by Hannah Critchlow  BIO A coloured...

20.04.2026 80

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Hannah critchlow

The engineering method

The engineering method The impossible architecture of Étienne-Louis Boullée Gödel’s incompleteness theorem The cosmic distance ladder with...

20.04.2026 70

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The invention of the soul

The invention of the soul Humans weren’t given souls by God or genes. We made them ourselves with language – turning sentience into something...

17.04.2026 100

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Nicholas Humphrey

Join the dots

Peering into the origins of our Universe, astronomers found something that shouldn’t be there: what are those little red dots? by Jenny Greene  ...

16.04.2026 90

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Jenny greene

Evolution of Paris

Five graphs that changed the world Virtual ancient Rome: walking from the Colosseum to the Forum De artificiali perspectiva, or anamorphosis Aeon...

16.04.2026 100

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Impromptu

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...

15.04.2026 90

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You’ve lived this life before

You’ve lived this life before The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived...

14.04.2026 100

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Mark higgins

The sterilisation-seekers

The sterilisation-seekers In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity by...

13.04.2026 80

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Coreen mcguire & alex aylward

I am Sámi

Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more. Reindeer politics – why...

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Patterns without desires

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...

10.04.2026 100

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Noah charney

White-collar sweatshops

White-collar sweatshops How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? by Dylan Gottlieb  BIO...

09.04.2026 100

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Dylan gottlieb

Travelling at the speed of light

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...

09.04.2026 80

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Your opinion, please

(Unofficial) history of the National Parks Do you think science… Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the...

08.04.2026 100

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Living without my self

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...

07.04.2026 100

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Mette leonard høeg

The antibiotic trap

Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis by Assa Doron & Alex Broom  ...

06.04.2026 80

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Assa doron & alex broom