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Zooming into the molecular level, this dazzling animation shows how the biological clock is set to zero to form new life- by Aeon VideoWatch on Psyche
Wilkin, 12, is growing up in a sugar mill town in the Dominican Republic. Hear his thoughts on joy, poverty and baseball- by Aeon VideoWatch on Psyche
Archival VHS footage from the post-Soviet era documents a shifting world, with poignant echoes in the present moment- by Aeon VideoWatch on Psyche
Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery, brought to animated life, capture the turn of the seasons in central Australia - by Aeon Video Watch at...
On call with the volunteers offering humanitarian aid to thousands of migrants from the Global South trying to enter into Europe - by Aeon Video...
From Newton’s circle to Schrödinger’s curved geometry, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
A hero or a murderer? Stalin’s legacy is still a contentious issue in his birthplace, seven decades after his death - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Ascend steep cliffs to discover Ethiopia’s ancient churches carved into rock, still serving as places of worship today - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with the distressing voice in her head - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
In the face of government denial, this powerful film reveals the devastating gendered violence of Indonesia’s 1998 riots - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Should it be possible to own an idea? The debate around intellectual property has deep roots in the history of philosophy - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The little-known painter who found beauty in bugs, transforming pests into wondrous creatures and works of art - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
How do you say goodbye to a beloved dog who will never understand what that means? A meditation on the limits of language - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The systems that make people unfree are deeply intertwined. This prison abolitionist dares to envision real alternatives - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Dissonance and harmony might seem straightforward, but a deep dive into the physics reveals their delightful complexity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
People who’ve lost an intimate partner often feel completely alone in their experience – Camp Widow helps them connect - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
It’s so toxic, curators can’t handle it without gloves – but drinking wine from this cup was once a popular wellness trend - by Aeon Video...
What does it mean to be Mexican? Meet the artist who forged Mexico’s identity in the brushstrokes of his landscape paintings - by Aeon Video Watch...
Can a Tibetan singer make the leap from the slow pace of life on the Tibetan plateau to the fast rhythms of urban Beijing? - by Aeon Video Watch at...
What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
For centuries, time-measuring tools were woefully imprecise. Moving from the Sun to water birthed a revolution in timekeeping - by Aeon Video Watch...
Solitary inmates find calm in nature videos in an experiment reflecting the human need to connect with the natural world - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe - by Aeon Video Watch...
An immersive data visualisation traces an endangered crane’s perilous migratory path over North America - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
What’s the difference between a good explanation and a bad one? A physicist argues this is the key to all human progress - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Take a tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece of organic architecture built atop a waterfall in rural Pennsylvania - by Aeon Video...
Join a Romanian family as they prepare for winter in the mountains and reflect on the richness of a slower way of life - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
A tender portrait of the bond between a mother and child, captured over the course of a visitation at a rural Virginia prison - by Aeon Video Watch...
A tender portrait of the bond between a mother and son, captured over the course of a visitation at a rural Virginia prison - by Aeon Video Watch at...
In the ghost mine town of Sunrise, Wyoming, archaeologists uncover fragments of humanity’s earliest presence in the Americas - by Aeon Video Watch...
‘Monuments of stupidity’ – a tour of the high-rises of Hudson Yards in Manhattan with the Marxist geographer David Harvey - by Aeon Video Watch...
By transforming documents of colonial classification into fantastical paintings, the racist imagery of Carl Linnaeus is reborn - by Aeon Video Watch...
From artificial trees to epic solar shields – a filmmaker crafts a bold vision of humanity’s future on an engineered Earth - by Aeon Video Watch...
This experimental animation repeats and expands a simple eight-second scene until it bursts with colour, sound and abstract images - by Aeon Video...
Decades after Soviet nuclear testing, communities living near ‘atomic lakes’ in Kazakhstan confront the legacy of radiation - by Aeon Video Watch...
‘Can girls be robots?’ ‘Do worms cry?’ ‘Why are some things special?’ A mother collects questions from her curious child - by Aeon Video...
‘Even under occupation, we can skate, live, and learn’: a moving prewar portrait of young Palestinians in the West Bank - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Plunge into doubt with Descartes, as he rids himself of all he cannot know, and finds the one thing he can know for sure - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Quaker, conscientious objector, prison reformer – these are just some of the many lives of the scientist Kathleen Lonsdale - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Smallpox went from a feared killer to a fading memory. Its eradication is one of humanity’s greatest collective triumphs - by Aeon Video Watch at...
An optical poem featuring audio of W H Auden’s ode to trees paired with art from the Met and outdoor footage of New York state - by Aeon Video...
A captivating story from Aardman Animations about a ‘little thief’ turned career criminal who just can’t break the habit - by Aeon Video Watch...
Explore Earth’s oceanic circulatory system via this groundbreaking visualisation of the global flow of ocean currents - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
First the rush, then the reality – how a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme spread faster than a virus in a sleepy Georgia town - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The world’s isms – capitalism, socialism, fascism and so on – explored through the analogy of your mum doing the washing - by Aeon Video Watch...
To understand the architectural genius of the Colosseum and its symbolic meaning for ancient Rome, it helps to take it apart - by Aeon Video Watch at...