In the eyes of the Runa people, Western kids grow up indulged, over-mothered and incapable of facing outward to the world - by Francesca Mezzenzana Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Why my Runa Indigenous family and friends found my child-centred, ‘natural’ parenting practices so strange and troubling - by Francesca Mezzenzana Read at Aeon | Continue reading
An original and poignant meditation on loss and the unknowable inner lives of the sheep that roam a Shropshire gravesite - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
With care for the social and ecological consequences, foods from the ocean should provide sustainable protein to billions - by Madhura Rao Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For the ‘sworn virgins’ of Albania, dressing and acting like men offered a degree of autonomy in a deeply patriarchal society - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Long a matter of philosophical speculation, the idea of multiple realities has been given new artistic licence by physics - by Timothy Andersen Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A postcard from Mars on the logistical, genetic and ethical implications of raising children beyond our home planet - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru - by Diego Javier Luis Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Some of the earliest known photographs of Athens, Jerusalem, Rome and more illuminate life on the Mediterranean in the 1840s - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
This radical movement makes space for people with mental health and other challenges to study (and celebrate) themselves - by Satsuki Ayaya & Junko Kitanaka Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Men in ancient Greek art exercise, fight battles, pursue lovers and mourn lost friends, all without their pants on. Why? - by Sarah Murray Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How an atomic interaction – not sticky feet – makes geckos world-class climbers, and is inspiring new human technologies - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Even if we ‘solve’ global warming, we face an older, slower problem. Waste heat could radically alter Earth’s future - by Mark Buchanan Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For ‘wifi refugees’, a small Appalachian town built around a massive telescope has become a rare safe haven from modernity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
By day an insurance official, by night Franz Kafka was an insomniac scribe of the liminal space between waking and dreaming - by Ross Benjamin Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Her closeness to Pope John Paul furnished him with anti-abortion ideals, fuelled by her survival of the Ravensbrück camp - by Joy Neumeyer Read at Aeon | Continue reading
In his masterpiece, Keats contrasts the ephemerality of life with the eternal beauty of art to craft a poem of lasting power - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it - by Monica Westin Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The fear of being duped is ubiquitous, but excessive scepticism makes it harder to trust one another and cooperate - by Tess Wilkinson-Ryan Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Cuteness overload! What makes us want to touch, pinch and squeeze adorable creatures is still a bit of a mystery for science - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The sexual revolution promised new norms of intimacy based on egalitarianism. So far, only the rich have cashed in - by Daniel Tutt Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Watch as a traditional artisan of Noh masks cuts, carves and paints an eerily lifelike human face from a single block of wood - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Radicals in the Age of Revolution saw the classical world as a common inheritance that could aid their fight for liberty - by Francesca Langer Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Two filmmakers, awaiting the result of a pregnancy test, take turns recording their experiences in this honest, intimate short - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Conceptual art often confounds. The key is to understand the rules of the artwork and the aesthetic experiences they yield - by Sherri Irvin Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Jacques Derrida was fascinated by the figure of the Marrano Jew, whose identity could barely be told even to themselves - by Peter Salmon Read at Aeon | Continue reading
War and wine: how decadent Persian wine vessels were given a playful, dynamic makeover in the hands of Athenian potters - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
A sonnet contains an emotional drama of illusion and deception, crisis and resolution, crafted to make us think and feel - by Timothy Hampton Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How the celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt captured apartheid’s contradictions in stark black and white - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The Marind people of West Papua deploy mourning not only to grieve their animal and plant kin but as political resistance - by Sophie Chao Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Should we believe in beliefs? A radical philosophy of mind says its time to ditch such immaterial concepts once and for all - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories - by Sara Walker & Lee Cronin Read at Aeon | Continue reading
What if massive ocean worlds – ‘Hycean’ planets – are a better bet in the search for life than terrestrial exoplanets? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
All countries must balance the freedom of individuals with the demands of the community. Sweden’s solution is unique - by Lars Trägårdh Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How can an all-powerful, all-loving god allow suffering in the world? A Catholic philosopher explains the problem of evil - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Analytic and continental philosophers were once united in their obsession with language. But now new questions have arisen - by Crispin Sartwell Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The intimacy that developed between an artist and his muse over hundreds of sittings is an exercise in love and drawing - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
After an abuse scandal destroyed my Buddhist community, I had to reconsider what it means to live an ethically attuned life - by Jessica Locke Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Full of implicit rules and paradoxes, sulking is a marvellous example of intense communication without clear declaration - by Rebecca Roache Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Amid ecological catastrophe, is the rise of simulation theory just a way to find ‘solace in the face of paralysis’? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Science is not the only form of knowledge but it is the best, being the most successful epistemic enterprise in history - by Moti Mizrahi Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A mesmerising music video uses innovative stop-motion animation to reveal, slice-by-slice, the patterns and hues in wood - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Is it time to abandon the century-old idea that cancer is best met with a ‘fight’ from patients and their doctors alike? - by Elaine Schattner Read at Aeon | Continue reading
When Sébastien finally meets his father and travels to his native Rwanda, he finds the answers to his lifelong questions - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The spooky sensation that someone or something else is right there haunts us all. But what does this felt presence mean? - by Ben Alderson-Day Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The 400-year-old book that first collected Shakespeare’s plays will take you on a riveting journey through theatre history - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
These canines have independent, peaceful, happy lives without a pet’s constraints. Why are they being persecuted and culled? - by Krithika Srinivasan & Chris Pearson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
In a poignant portrait of grief and the strength it can inspire, Yasuo searches the sea for his wife, lost in a tsunami - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading