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Should knowledge be free?

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...

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Joris Hoefnagel: the artist who painted bugs like jewels

Joris Hoefnagel: the artist who painted bugs like jewels

The little-known painter who found beauty in bugs, transforming pests into wondrous creatures and works of art - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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A film is a goodbye that never ends

A film is a goodbye that never ends

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...

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Geographies of racial capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Geographies of racial capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

The systems that make people unfree are deeply intertwined. This prison abolitionist dares to envision real alternatives - by Aeon Video Watch at...

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The physics of dissonance

The physics of dissonance

Dissonance and harmony might seem straightforward, but a deep dive into the physics reveals their delightful complexity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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Camp Widow

Camp Widow

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

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Unboxing an antimonial cup

Unboxing an antimonial cup

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...

23.07.2025 30

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Great art explained: José María Velasco

Great art explained: José María Velasco

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...

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The Tibetan girl

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...

17.07.2025 30

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The myth of the golden ratio

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...

16.07.2025 40

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Asmat encounters

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

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Ancient water clocks

For centuries, time-measuring tools were woefully imprecise. Moving from the Sun to water birthed a revolution in timekeeping - by Aeon Video Watch...

10.07.2025 20

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Blue room

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...

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The search for America: the family

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

07.07.2025 30

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Primero, sueño

Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

03.07.2025 30

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The lights of Flushing

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

02.07.2025 10

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The cosmic distance ladder with Terence Tao: part two

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...

30.06.2025 40

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The whooper highway

An immersive data visualisation traces an endangered crane’s perilous migratory path over North America - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

26.06.2025 20

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David Deutsch: explanations

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...

25.06.2025 20

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Inside Fallingwater

Take a tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece of organic architecture built atop a waterfall in rural Pennsylvania - by Aeon Video...

23.06.2025 40

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But the flowers remain

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

19.06.2025 40

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Weekend visits

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...

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Weekend visits

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...

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Ochre sunrise

In the ghost mine town of Sunrise, Wyoming, archaeologists uncover fragments of humanity’s earliest presence in the Americas - by Aeon Video Watch...

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David Harvey and the city

‘Monuments of stupidity’ – a tour of the high-rises of Hudson Yards in Manhattan with the Marxist geographer David Harvey - by Aeon Video Watch...

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Firelei Báez: an open horizon

By transforming documents of colonial classification into fantastical paintings, the racist imagery of Carl Linnaeus is reborn - by Aeon Video Watch...

11.06.2025 20

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Engineering earth

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...

09.06.2025 40

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00:08

This experimental animation repeats and expands a simple eight-second scene until it bursts with colour, sound and abstract images - by Aeon Video...

05.06.2025 30

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Atomic secrets

Decades after Soviet nuclear testing, communities living near ‘atomic lakes’ in Kazakhstan confront the legacy of radiation - by Aeon Video Watch...

04.06.2025 10

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How does life live?

‘Can girls be robots?’ ‘Do worms cry?’ ‘Why are some things special?’ A mother collects questions from her curious child - by Aeon Video...

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Walls cannot keep us from flying

‘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

29.05.2025 20

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René Descartes: Second Meditation

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...

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The ethical science of Kathleen Lonsdale

Quaker, conscientious objector, prison reformer – these are just some of the many lives of the scientist Kathleen Lonsdale - by Aeon Video Watch at...

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The plea: defeating smallpox

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...

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Woods

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...

21.05.2025 20

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Going equipped

A captivating story from Aardman Animations about a ‘little thief’ turned career criminal who just can’t break the habit - by Aeon Video Watch...

19.05.2025 30

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An ocean in motion

Explore Earth’s oceanic circulatory system via this groundbreaking visualisation of the global flow of ocean currents - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

15.05.2025 30

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A crypto rush aftermath

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...

14.05.2025 20

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Mum does the washing

The world’s isms – capitalism, socialism, fascism and so on – explored through the analogy of your mum doing the washing - by Aeon Video Watch...

12.05.2025 20

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Deconstructing the Colosseum

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...

08.05.2025 8

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Meteor

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...

07.05.2025 10

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How to study ‘talking’ dogs

Inspired by a TikTok trend, a cognitive scientist developed the largest citizen science study in animal communication - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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The best photographer you’ve never heard of

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...

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The cosmic distance ladder with Terence Tao: part one

An awe-inspiring look at how scientific knowledge builds upon itself gradually – one ingenious measurement at a time - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

30.04.2025 20

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Mr Cường’s banyan tree

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

28.04.2025 20

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Diary of a head injury

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

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Some thoughts on the common toad

‘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...

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Crafting a Hardanger boat

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

21.04.2025 20

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Squirrel on my shoulder

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...

17.04.2025 20

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Building an artificial scientist

‘Artificial scientists’ can use machine-learning algorithms to design experiments that are beyond the intuition of humans - by Aeon Video Watch...

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