The philosopher A C Grayling explains why the question ‘Why is there something instead of nothing?’ isn’t even worth asking - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Authoritarian leaders who play the religious card are not mere hypocrites. There’s something far more troubling going on - by Suzanne Schneider Read at Aeon | Continue reading
This heartfelt portrait of one man’s addiction makes a powerful case for a patient-centred approach to the opioid epidemic - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
As Neolithic people transformed prehistoric forests, they stumbled into an ecological trap. Domestication goes both ways - by Mette Løvschal Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Say what you will about the vice, the smoke break can spark rare moments of respite and connection between coworkers - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Parenting advice from D H Lawrence: don’t smother your children with love. They are more sagacious than you think - by Lara Feigel Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Are you a person in a universe or brain in a void? How logicians, cosmologists and philosophers tackle Boltzmann’s paradox - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Centuries of capitalism saw the global countryside ruthlessly converted into cheap commodities. But at what cost? - by Sven Beckert & Ulbe Bosma Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘I’m noticed for that hour’: for an ageing art model, the careful attention of others prompts a frank evaluation of her body - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The story of a working-class radical from Ireland who became a celebrated monk and challenged the British Empire in Asia - by Laurence Cox Read at Aeon | Continue reading
An evolutionary approach to consciousness can resolve the ‘hard problem’ – with radical implications for animal sentience | Continue reading
Unfiltered footage of solar flares is a reminder of the processing behind most space images – and the raw power of the Sun - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
An evolutionary approach to consciousness can resolve the ‘hard problem’ – with radical implications for animal sentience - by Nicholas Humphrey Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Metamorphosis or ruin? A poetic, up-close look at the hidden work of rot asks us to reconsider our relationship with decay | Continue reading
Attaining and maintaining power lies at the heart of almost all animal societies. And it’s as devious as human politicking - by Lee Alan Dugatkin Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Metamorphosis or ruin? A poetic, up-close look at the hidden work of rot asks us to reconsider our relationship with decay - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
For children like me, growing up in an utopian community, life was a bewildering chaos of freedom and indoctrination - by Susanna Crossman Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The unfashionable world of Blyton’s school stories still has much to say about what it means to live an ethical life | Continue reading
The neuroscientific picture of addiction overlooks the psychological and social factors that make cravings so hard to resist | Continue reading
An animator’s ethical conundrum: how does he depict an Autistic person without reducing him to a caricature? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Thousands of victims of political executions lie in anonymous graves. Forensics offers hope for the ‘forgotten’ ones - by Nicole Iturriaga Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For philosopher Henri Bergson, laughter solves a serious human conundrum: how to keep our minds and social lives elastic | Continue reading
‘It was a very spiritual thing to do.’ How Black Londoners built a community – and their houses – from the ground up - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Two 90-year-old women remember the clothes, manners and copious mud of Victorian London when they were teenagers | Continue reading
Naturists believed nudity was profoundly beneficial to society. In order to spread the message, they took to photography - by Annebella Pollen Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Running images through an AI feedback loop generates a trippy wave of visuals unbound from the world of human aesthetics - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The neuroscientific picture of addiction overlooks the psychological and social factors that make cravings so hard to resist - by Zoey Lavallee Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Two 90-year-old women remember the clothes, manners and copious mud of Victorian London when they were teenagers - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Eric Voegelin and Hans Kelsen fled the Nazis. In the US, they clashed over the nature of modernity and government - by David Dyzenhaus Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘It’s a celebration of gender’: when a couple sets out to raise their baby gender-neutral, there are joys and complications - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
For over a century telemedicine has promised healthcare for all. But will it ever replace seeing a human being in person? - by Jeremy A Greene Read at Aeon | Continue reading
She has deep emotions, complex social needs and a large, elephant brain. Her legal personhood should be recognised too - by Lori Marino Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Follow the mesmerising movements of the peloton on a ride through the Canadian countryside, via this stylish 1965 classic - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation, Parwati Soepangat pioneered a Buddhist feminist theology with deep roots - by Jack Meng-Tat Chia Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Through his painting, Rothko sought meaning in a disenchanted world. A lucrative commission challenged his artistic ideals - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Even when individual perpetrators and victims are dead, states and institutions have a responsibility to make restitutions - by Joshua Stein Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Humpback whale songs spread through the oceans like pop music, raising deeper questions about whale cultural evolution - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In the 17th century, Dutch proselytisers set out for Asia, Africa and the Americas. The legacy of their travels endures - by Charles H Parker Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Unravelling the mysteries of the only known map of the Roman world – spanning from Spain to India – surviving from antiquity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Inside a rainforest or on the city pavement, moss asks so little yet offers so much: a tactile encounter with time itself - by Nikita Arora Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘If you got pregnant, that was a crime’: uncovering the Catholic zealotry and cruelty of Ireland’s ‘mother and baby homes’ - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Ken Burns’s account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering - by Mark Lawrence Schrad Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How Hegel’s ‘notoriously obscure’ philosophy of history revolutionised the world via Marx, as explained by Peter Singer - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Science and mathematics may never fully capture the physical universe. Are there hard limits to human intelligence? - by David H Wolpert Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Is history a matter of individual agency and action, or of finding and quantifying underpinning structures and patterns? | Continue reading
Is history a matter of individual agency and action, or of finding and quantifying underpinning structures and patterns? - by Claire Lemercier & Claire Zalc Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘You are all children of the atomic age’: an award-winning 1982 documentary shows the horrors of full-scale nuclear war - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Unkempt, beguiling and lacking conventional geometry, wetlands bring a roguish, raffish wildness to the city - by Tom Blass Read at Aeon | Continue reading