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Nanoscapes

Nanoscapes

With electron microscopes that magnify butterfly wings 50,000 times their original size, a hidden ‘topography’ emerges - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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Clear sky

Clear sky

Vova and Roma, two Ukrainian boys, spend their summer in the ever-present shadow of war in this affecting short film - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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Woodcut printmaker Tom Killion

Woodcut printmaker Tom Killion

Inspired by Japanese master artists, a woodcut printmaker is constantly reimagining the landscapes of his California home - by Aeon Video Watch at...

31.03.2025 30

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Salone love

Salone love

A playful collage of audio interviews captures candid and revealing reflections on love, sex and marriage in Sierra Leone - by Aeon Video Watch at...

27.03.2025 20

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The ice builders

The ice builders

In the remote Himalayas, ice stupas are an elegant yet desperate response to climate change, and a plea to the world to care - by Aeon Video Watch at...

26.03.2025 30

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Reset: Bennie

Reset: Bennie

‘If I’m gonna to be this person, I gotta live by morals and standards’: how one man left his old life behind to start anew - by Aeon Video...

24.03.2025 20

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The origins of online dating

The origins of online dating

Join a ‘computer dating’ meetup in 1966 in this short video to see what has – and hasn’t – changed in tech-assisted dating - by Aeon Video...

20.03.2025 20

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By the time I reach him

By the time I reach him

‘My dad will be gone by the time I reach him’ – a filmmaker captures the first time their father forgets who they are - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

19.03.2025 20

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Voices of the Pacific Flyway

Voices of the Pacific Flyway

How three communities on North America’s west coast find meaning by interacting with the flight paths of migratory seabirds - by Aeon Video Watch...

17.03.2025 20

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Baat wahi hai (It’s the same story)

Baat wahi hai (It’s the same story)

Two Indian storytellers give intersecting and conflicting accounts of the same Hindu myth in this dazzling animation - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

13.03.2025 10

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Christmas, every day

A glimpse at the lives of preteen influencers Peyton and Lyla in rural Alabama as they switch between performance and reality - by Aeon Video Watch...

12.03.2025 20

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God stumbled here

In the mountains of South Africa, the dispossessed locals bear the burden of the green economy without sharing in its gains - by Aeon Video Watch at...

10.03.2025 20

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Regulars

Snippets from a full day in a 24-hour diner make up this 13-minute short, offering a brief yet rich glimpse into diverse lives - by Aeon Video Watch...

06.03.2025 20

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Satie’s furniture music

‘Designed to be ignored’ – uncover the surprisingly fascinating origins of background music in this video essay on Erik Satie - by Aeon Video...

05.03.2025 50

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She is a shaman

Glimpse into the daily life of a female shaman who hosts ayahuasca ceremonies for tourists in the Peruvian Amazon - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

03.03.2025 30

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Saving parasites

One in three parasitic species is in danger. Here’s why humans may need to power through the ‘ick’ to save them - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

27.02.2025 30

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Carlo Rovelli: the physics and philosophy of time

What is the meaning of ‘now’? An Italian physicist takes us on a journey to the edges of our understanding of time - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

26.02.2025 30

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Application to be Lars von Trier’s ‘female girlfriend/muse’

When Lars von Trier seeks applications for a ‘female girlfriend/muse’, a filmmaker puts forward her 72-year-old lesbian neighbour - by Aeon Video...

24.02.2025 30

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Large language models explained

River bank or bank account? How chatbots learned to make the quantum leap to context by training on billions of prompts - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

20.02.2025 10

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Children’s game: chivichanas

In this immersive portrait of play, children transform the streets of Havana into a racetrack with handmade ‘chivichanas’ - by Aeon Video Watch...

19.02.2025 30

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Prayer is the greatest freedom of all

‘I think that freedom everywhere, anywhere is love.’ Father Giles, a monk for 47 years, shares his radical view of freedom - by Aeon Video Watch...

17.02.2025 50

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Slow-motion tongues

Striking slow-motion footage captures the awesome evolutionary diversity – and handy usefulness – of a lizard’s tongue - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

13.02.2025 20

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A former slave’s letter to his old master

‘Will you send us our wages for the time that we served you?’ A freed slave answers his old master’s request to come back - by Aeon Video Watch...

12.02.2025 30

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The cheekiest potter

A ceramicist puts a playful twist on Italian Renaissance pottery with dirty jokes, emojis and colourful commentary on menopause - by Aeon Video Watch...

10.02.2025 30

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Guardians of the gibbons

Humans are both the gravest threat and the greatest hope for the survival of the rare hoolock gibbons in northeast India - by Aeon Video Watch at...

06.02.2025 20

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How to see an exquisite corpse

A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical creativity - by Aeon Video...

05.02.2025 10

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Mother tongue

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows - by Aeon Video Watch at...

03.02.2025 20

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The ethical dilemma of privacy

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on - by Aeon Video Watch...

30.01.2025 20

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Murmurations

A filmmaker collaborates with a murmuration of starlings to create spellbinding visuals at the intersection of science and art - by Aeon Video Watch...

29.01.2025 40

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Voices of Victorians

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the phonograph - by Aeon Video...

27.01.2025 10

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Eric Laithwaite: shaping things to come

An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

23.01.2025 9

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Electric garden

Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum, part work of art, and wholly individual - by Aeon Video Watch...

22.01.2025 20

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Curiosity and control

What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about the world, or a need to dominate it? - by Aeon Video Watch at...

20.01.2025 40

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Excavating Girsu

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap - by Aeon Video Watch at...

16.01.2025 30

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Since you arrived, my heart stopped belonging to me

‘We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

15.01.2025 10

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Why vanity could be a good thing

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith agreed that vanity was all too human. But one saw it as a vice; the other, as a necessity - by Aeon Video Watch...

13.01.2025 10

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The waiting

Returning to the cold case of the disappearing frogs of Costa Rica, a biologist reveals a hard truth about life on Earth - by Aeon Video Watch at...

09.01.2025 20

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The sublime

The sublime describes the distinctive mix of awe, fear and serenity one might feel when confronted with imposing immensity. (Think: standing at the...

08.01.2025 20

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Muslims and the US Civil War

The short documentary series ‘American Muslims: A History Revealed’ features six films that explore the often overlooked ways in which of Muslims...

06.01.2025 20

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Boat people

After the end of the war in Vietnam in 1975, the phrase ‘boat people’ came to describe the Vietnamese refugees who fled the country seeking to...

19.12.2024 10

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Boca Chica

Much of the world watched on in wonder and excitement when, on 13 October 2024, a rocket from Elon Musk’s commercial space company SpaceX boosted a...

18.12.2024 20

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Household objects up close

In this entrancing video, the Dutch filmmaker, photographer and artist Michiel de Boer (aka Posy) provides close-ups of a series of...

16.12.2024 10

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Peter Capaldi reads a letter from the First World War

‘Somehow this scene became a peaceful one.’ The famed ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914 occurred some five months after the outbreak of the First World War...

12.12.2024 8

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Can you transplant a head to another body?

After decades of experimenting on animal brains, the US neurosurgeon Robert J White proposed executing a ‘whole body transplant’ on a rhesus...

11.12.2024 6

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A series of headaches: Shakespeare’s First Folio meets the London Review of Books

In 1623, seven years after William Shakespeare’s death, a collection of his plays titled Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies...

09.12.2024 5

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Strange beasts

In Strange Beasts, the Australian director Darcy Prendergast captures his father Ron Prendergast’s story of working at the Bacchus Marsh Lion...

05.12.2024 10

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Frozen in time

In China, it’s illegal for unmarried women to freeze their eggs. This law, combined with a more independent and career-focused generation of women...

04.12.2024 10

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The sound of colour

‘And so the arts are encroaching one upon another, and from this will rise the art that is truly monumental.’– Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning...

02.12.2024 5

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The life of an (extra)ordinary Roman soldier

The ancient letters of a Roman soldier reveal the hazards and routines of army life, from signing up all the way to retiring - by Aeon Video Watch...

28.11.2024 5

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Into the blue

At a week-long police boot camp, a shy girl from Copenhagen learns to handcuff suspects, respond to riots and handle guns - by Aeon Video Watch at...

27.11.2024 6

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