Hens try to hatch golf balls, whales get beached. Getting things wrong seems to play a fundamental role in life on Earth - by David S Oderberg Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A Bible, a piece of wood, a song – a poignant portrait of the everyday family keepsakes that can bridge generations - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Our culture works hard to keep sex and death separate but recharging the libido might provide the release that grief needs - by Cody Delistraty Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Liberals have forgotten that in order for our lives not to be nasty, brutish and short, we need stability. Enter Hobbes - by Jennifer M Morton Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Mapping a fruit fly’s multitudinous neural pathways is a promising step towards a better understanding of the human brain - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Pau Cin Hau dreamt of an alphabet for a language that had never been written down. So began the religion of Laipianism - by Bikash K Bhattacharya Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Like ‘the property room of an opera house of a vanished civilisation’: the first thrilling glimpse inside Tutankhamun’s tomb - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
For centuries, the only way in which to illuminate the mysteries of black holes was through the power of mathematics - by Steve Nadis & Shing-Tung Yau Read at Aeon | Continue reading
In 2009, the ‘balloon boy’ incident captivated American television audiences – what did it reveal about profit-driven news? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Mental health campaigns place huge trust in people’s ability to act as therapists. But when should professionals step in? - by Aaron Neiman Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less’ - by Matt Alt Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For a young girl living in 1980s Tehran, the small intrigues of everyday life take centre stage against a backdrop of war - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Medicine aims to return bodies to the state they were in before illness. But there’s a better way of thinking about health - by Jane Maienschein & Kate MacCord Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘It’s a beautiful world … when you’re free’: two teens grapple with how to live an authentic life in this vintage short - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The Mormon state is seen as deeply homophobic. Yet, from polygamy to pride, Mormons themselves are a distinctly queer lot - by Kristi Rhead Read at Aeon | Continue reading
DNA is nature’s highly efficient mechanism for data storage. Now, scientists are taking note to address our storage crisis - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The belief in witches is an almost universal feature of human societies. What does it reveal about our deepest fears? - by Gregory Forth Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Once lauded as a wonder of the age, cocaine soon became the object of profound anxieties. What happened? - by Douglas Small Read at Aeon | Continue reading
To make sense of a dark and confusing world, the acclaimed puppeteer Ronnie Burkett shrinks it down to a ‘manageable size’ - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise - by Rachel Fraser Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A walk through the English countryside reveals tangible yet long-overlooked traces of a nomadic culture’s long presence - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
After years of debate and contemplation, I’ve come to believe in a Christian God of limited abilities. Here’s why - by Philip Goff Read at Aeon | Continue reading
After years of debate and contemplation, I’ve come to believe in a Christian God of limited abilities. Here’s why - by Philip Goff Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Blurring science and art, these close-ups of butterfly and moth wings reveal their astonishing diversity and immense beauty - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right? - by Evan Thompson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly love - by Anna Gotlib Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Extreme weather means 10-year-old Mogi must choose between the nomadic life on the Mongolian steppe and moving to the city - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Without the neutrino, the Universe might be an empty void. But this inscrutable particle isn’t giving up its secrets easily - by Corey S Powell Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How did scientists figure out, after a century of study, that we’re all the product of humans interbreeding with Neanderthals? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Offering an escape from industrial foods, foraging nourishes the soul and body, but it needs democratic access to the land - by Nikita Sud Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Fifty years in the making, the Great Wall of Los Angeles is a half-mile monument to the marginalised histories of California - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The waste and exploitation of fast fashion shouldn’t blind us to the joys of making beautiful clothing with care - by Roger Tredre Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Two distinct and conflicting forms of nationalism – civic and ethnic – helped create the nation-states of Europe - by Luka Ivan Jukić Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Follow the ‘dumpster archeologist’ Lew Blink as he pieces together people’s stories from the objects they’ve left behind - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
When Nietzsche used the tools of philology to explore the nature of morality, he became a ‘philosopher of the future’ - by Alexander Prescott-Couch Read at Aeon | Continue reading
To complete the perilous project his mother never finished, a filmmaker documents Indigenous resistance in war-torn Colombia - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process - by David C Krakauer & Chris Kempes Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ William Blake captures the suffering and oppression on the streets of 18th-century London - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss - by Tishani Doshi Read at Aeon | Continue reading
W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them? - by Joanna Pocock Read at Aeon | Continue reading
When animals seem to grieve for their dead, such as staying with them for days, is it anthropomorphism or something more? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
After years of insomnia, I threw off the effort to sleep and embraced the peculiar openness I found in the darkest hours - by Annabel Abbs Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Why did it take archeologists a century to decode the small clay tablet that’s also the oldest known map of the world? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
How two amateur schools pulled a generation of thinkers from the workers and teachers of the 19th-century American Midwest - by Joseph M Keegin Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Love is a daily act of devotion for two brothers – one mentally, the other physically disabled – in a shared apartment - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Sailors, exiles, merchants and philosophers: how the ancient Greeks played with language to express a seaborne imagination - by Giordano Lipari Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Rather than being a cringey personal failing, awkwardness is a collective rupture – and a chance to rewrite the social script - by Alexandra Plakias Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Evolution isn’t linear and it doesn’t have a masterplan – a microbiologist explains the role of randomness in the process - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading