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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...
Through stunning animation, an Iranian expat pays tribute to the grief and defiance of women and the queer community back home - by Aeon Video Watch...
Inspired by a TikTok trend, a cognitive scientist developed the largest citizen science study in animal communication - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Peel back the visible and invisible layers of brilliance in one artist’s clever self-portraits juxtaposing East and West - by Aeon Video Watch at...
An awe-inspiring look at how scientific knowledge builds upon itself gradually – one ingenious measurement at a time - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
In Hanoi, an uprooted tree inspires a meditation on war, peace and the power of objects to create deep meaning - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
In the aftermath of a head injury, Nick’s mind is split between his old self and a strange new self he doesn’t know - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
‘Is it wicked to take a pleasure in spring?’ George Orwell’s postwar ode to the toad offers a message ripe for our times - by Aeon Video Watch...
Watch as two craftspeople use 19th-century methods and tools to turn a tree on Norway’s coast into a rowing boat - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Meet Sammy Squitten, the baby squirrel suckled by a cat and raised by a human, in this story narrated by David Attenborough - by Aeon Video Watch at...
‘Artificial scientists’ can use machine-learning algorithms to design experiments that are beyond the intuition of humans - by Aeon Video Watch...
Sometimes wicked but always powerful. Why did witches transform from figures of fear to figures of entertainment and aspiration? - by Aeon Video...
Thirty years after the Rwandan genocide, a therapist helps young adults born from rape navigate stigma and family trauma - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A haunting elegy to the boreal forests of Finland hand-scratched onto 16mm film with fleeting glimpses of local plant life - by Aeon Video Watch at...
What is the highest goal our lives can achieve? Paul Tillich and Mark Van Doren’s insights from the 1950s are illuminating today - by Aeon Video...
With electron microscopes that magnify butterfly wings 50,000 times their original size, a hidden ‘topography’ emerges - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
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
Inspired by Japanese master artists, a woodcut printmaker is constantly reimagining the landscapes of his California home - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A playful collage of audio interviews captures candid and revealing reflections on love, sex and marriage in Sierra Leone - by Aeon Video Watch at...
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...
‘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...
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...
‘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