‘Monuments of stupidity’ – a tour of the high-rises of Hudson Yards in Manhattan with the Marxist geographer David Harvey - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In the 1980s, thousands of Americans began to suspect they may have been abducted by aliens. What happened? - by Greg Eghigian Read at Aeon | Continue reading
By transforming documents of colonial classification into fantastical paintings, the racist imagery of Carl Linnaeus is reborn - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Riven by two competing schools of thought, the future of philosophical enquiry in Ethiopia stands at a crossroads - by Fasil Merawi Read at Aeon | Continue reading
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 at Aeon | Continue reading
An immersive ‘flow state’ isn’t only accessible to great artists and athletes. You can find your flow too. Here’s how - by Julia F Christensen Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful - by James Read Read at Aeon | Continue reading
This experimental animation repeats and expands a simple eight-second scene until it bursts with colour, sound and abstract images - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
A bizarre theory (and a gory surgery) in fin-de-siècle Vienna help us get a grip on how science and medicine actually work - by Urte Laukaityte Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Decades after Soviet nuclear testing, communities living near ‘atomic lakes’ in Kazakhstan confront the legacy of radiation - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In enigmatic burials, crafted to bind the bodies within, we can see how truly ancient our fears of the undead must be - by Rebecca Batley Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Can girls be robots?’ ‘Do worms cry?’ ‘Why are some things special?’ A mother collects questions from her curious child - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
An appreciation of the immensity embedded in the ocean’s cycles offers a way to reimagine our relationship with time - by James Bradley Read at Aeon | Continue reading
While initiatives for inclusive education mean well, schools fail to provide neurodivergent students what they need to flourish - by Chelsea Wallis Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘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 | Continue reading
Only a tiny sliver of the Universe’s light can be seen by human eyes. But today we’re catching glimpses of the invisible - by Corey S Powell Read at Aeon | Continue reading
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 Aeon | Continue reading
It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius - by Tim Connolly Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Quaker, conscientious objector, prison reformer – these are just some of the many lives of the scientist Kathleen Lonsdale - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Gerrard Winstanley led a small band of radicals whose vision of justice encompassed the globe and continues to inspire - by Rowan Wilson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them? - by Nick Longrich Read at Aeon | Continue reading
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 Aeon | Continue reading
It’s a ‘failed painting’ that obscures the profound power of German Romanticism. Why do we love the ‘Wanderer’ so much? - by Gianluca Didino Read at Aeon | Continue reading
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 Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
You can believe in border control yet protect those fleeing to safety. So what is our ethical obligation to refugees? - by Bradley Hillier-Smith Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A captivating story from Aardman Animations about a ‘little thief’ turned career criminal who just can’t break the habit - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony - by Luiz Pessoa Read at Aeon | Continue reading
It took months for my functional neurological disorder to finally be diagnosed. It’s a condition that must be recognised - by Kevin Aho Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Explore Earth’s oceanic circulatory system via this groundbreaking visualisation of the global flow of ocean currents - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The explosion of automobiles shaped cities and lives. But an enduring problem remains: where to put them when they’re parked - by Alfie Robinson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
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 Aeon | Continue reading
The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell? - by Eliane Glaser Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The world’s isms – capitalism, socialism, fascism and so on – explored through the analogy of your mum doing the washing - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
By turns benign and malign, powerful and vulnerable, earthbound and aerial, daimons across the world resemble one another - by David Gordon White Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages - by Nikhil Mahant Read at Aeon | Continue reading
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 Aeon | Continue reading
As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead - by Robert D Zaretsky Read at Aeon | Continue reading
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 at Aeon | Continue reading
The precipitous decline of birthrates throughout the world poses a serious threat to humanity. What is to be done? - by Victor Kumar Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Inspired by a TikTok trend, a cognitive scientist developed the largest citizen science study in animal communication - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The Norse ravaged much of Europe for centuries. They were also cosmopolitan explorers who followed trade winds into the Far East - by Neil Price Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Like today’s large language models, 16th-century humanists had techniques to automate writing – to the detriment of novelty - by Hannah Katznelson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
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 Aeon | Continue reading
An awe-inspiring look at how scientific knowledge builds upon itself gradually – one ingenious measurement at a time - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
After a murderous kidnapping in Nigeria, I launched a campaign to put a stop to the abductions. Why did no one listen? - by Ayisha Osori Read at Aeon | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
The weird paradox of Schrödinger’s cat has found a lasting popularity. What does it mean for the future of quantum physics? - by Jim Baggott Read at Aeon | Continue reading
When we see the Earth as ‘a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam’ what do we learn about human significance? - by Tim Bayne Read at Aeon | Continue reading