Although it felt more like bereavement for a person than the loss of a thing, the death of a pet isn’t exactly like either - by Julian Baggini Read at Aeon | Continue reading
An archaeologist, a therapist and doomsday preppers advise an anxious filmmaker on how to cope with the end of the world - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ is a popular weapon in the anti-trans arsenal. It is nothing but unscientific bunk - by Quinnehtukqut McLamore Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, she became the influential queen of a mysterious, abundant North African kingdom - by Jane Draycott Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Given what we know about the inner worlds of nonhuman animals, how can scientists experiment on them for our potential good? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Sartre gets much of the credit for existentialism. Karl Jaspers not only preceded him, but offered a way out of despair - by Deborah Casewell Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For a mudlarker, the banks of the Thames offer up varied treasures, and a glimpse into the past – and future – of London - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Confident or shy, our temperament is mostly baked-in from birth. But how that influences our lives is up for grabs - by Gina Mireault Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘What are you writing about me?’ and other questions Jo isn’t supposed to ask her therapist, but keeps trying anyway - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The scientific evidence is clear: the only celestial body that can support us is the one we evolved with. Here’s why - by Arwen E Nicholson & Raphaëlle D Haywood Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The idea of a ‘precolonial’ Africa is theoretically vacuous, racist and plain wrong about the continent’s actual history - by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How profit, entertainment and belief intertwined to perpetuate a fantastical hoax from 1835 about bat-people on the Moon - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Will a new generation of women on the podium perpetuate the tyrannical charisma of their male predecessors or overturn it? - by Xenia Hanusiak Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Is the only way for a victim’s family to heal for the perpetrator to hurt? Revisiting a notorious teenage murder from 1990 - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Asia’s rise to economic power and food security has been powered not by rice but by American maize, the ultimate flexi-crop - by Peter A Coclanis Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How researchers are using insights from Indian classical dance to allow prosthesis patients to ‘feel’ the external world - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Each new generation learns from its elders. But familial voices now compete for influence with a chorus of urgent others - by Elizabeth Svoboda Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Education has long been ignored by contemporary philosophers. That is a myopic view that must change - by David Bakhurst Read at Aeon | Continue reading
This is where we nearly died – a folksy reflection on family, memory and the razor-thin margin between comedy and tragedy - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The transgressions of working-class women formed the revolutionary heart of the 1871 Paris Commune - by Carolyn Eichner Read at Aeon | Continue reading
An otherworldly experience at the intersection of art and science – staged on a single square inch in a Petri dish - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Medical science can only tell us so much. To understand pain, we need the cultural tools of history, philosophy and art - by Rob Boddice Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A fly-on-the-wall film follows two Swiss paramedic crews for a powerfully involving ride as they attend emergencies - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why - by Jennifer Raff Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Why don’t I paint the sensation of seeing?’ The US artist Alex Katz on eight decades of meditative looking - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
How a close group of brilliant friends, in a tiny German university town, laid the foundations of modern consciousness - by Andrea Wulf Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How a century of research culminated in the first lab-built wormhole linking classical physics and the quantum world - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
There are no transcendent insights that rise above human difference. Yet wisdom exists if we look in the right places - by Avram Alpert Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A delightfully retro animation exploring what the research company DeepMind did to teach an AI to beat a human at video games - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In Fukushima, communities are adapting to life in a time of permanent pollution: a glimpse of what’s to come for us all - by Maxime Polleri Read at Aeon | Continue reading
From meowing nuns to teenagers with tics, social contagion is real and causes genuine harm, not least in our social media age - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
It is enormously empowering – even intoxicating – to lose yourself to a crowd. That is why we need contrarians - by Costica Bradatan Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘I can feel the ground crumbling beneath my feet’: a son honours where his father’s turbulent life has taken them both - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In the dark, sylvan villages of medieval England, people named places after the birds that filled the night with music - by Michael J Warren Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Practice is at the heart of Korean philosophy. In order to lead a good life, hone your daily rituals of self-cultivation - by Kevin Cawley Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘An opportunity to look within.’ How did Narendra Modi’s lockdown actually affect India’s millions of migrant workers? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The truly wondrous treasures of Tutankhamun’s tomb are not made of gold. They are the mundane things of everyday life - by Toby Wilkinson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How Edward Hopper’s lonely, voyeuristic scenes drew on the visual language of the cinema, and were captured in their turn - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Dust storms, long distances and freezing temperatures make living on Mars magnificently challenging. How will we do it? - by Simon Morden Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Imagine growing up in a New York City library, where you could wander the stacks and read late into the night. Ronald did - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
For hundreds of years, Christians knew exactly where heaven was: above us and above the stars. Then came the new cosmologists - by Stephen Case Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘You cried and I didn’t know how to soothe you’ – the raw poetry of a new mother’s struggle to breastfeed her baby - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The concept of geopolitics comes from German and Russian attempts to explain defeat and reverse loss of influence - by Harold James Read at Aeon | Continue reading
What did the Rosetta Stone actually intend to say, and what can it tell us about the ancient Egyptians who inscribed it? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
How the advent of consciousness 500 million years ago gave way to an evolutionary ‘arms race’ in sophisticated thinking - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Subjecting the problems of ethics to the cool quantifications of logic and probability can help us to be better people - by Elad Uzan Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A dragon needs the clouds and the wind in order to fly. What happens when we too relinquish individualistic reasoning? - by Mercedes Valmisa Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How Descartes took the world apart to reconstitute it anew, laying the foundations for modern philosophy and science - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading