How do you say goodbye to a beloved dog who will never understand what that means? A meditation on the limits of language - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Alex Haley co-wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X but Haley left out some profound elements of Malcolm’s political thought - by Alex White Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The systems that make people unfree are deeply intertwined. This prison abolitionist dares to envision real alternatives - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests - by David Van Reybrouck Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Dissonance and harmony might seem straightforward, but a deep dive into the physics reveals their delightful complexity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Life is complicated. In Cameroon, initiated diviners read the messages of spiders to untangle possible futures - by David Zeitlyn Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Nietzsche shows us how to embrace our connection with nature – without denying its essential conflict, strife and suffering - by Nicholas E Low Read at Aeon | Continue reading
People who’ve lost an intimate partner often feel completely alone in their experience – Camp Widow helps them connect - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
What is the shape of the Universe? The answer might be found in the most unassuming places here on Earth - by Mark Neyrinck Read at Aeon | Continue reading
It’s so toxic, curators can’t handle it without gloves – but drinking wine from this cup was once a popular wellness trend - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Any legal system that fails to compensate people for epistemic harm is unjust. Their damage must be named and remedied - by Mitch Woolery Read at Aeon | Continue reading
What does it mean to be Mexican? Meet the artist who forged Mexico’s identity in the brushstrokes of his landscape paintings - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Interpreting the emotional lives of animals requires a subtler and more nuanced understanding of anthropomorphism - by Mike Dacey Read at Aeon | Continue reading
To truly explore alien languages, linguists must open themselves to the maximum conceivable degree of cosmic otherness - by Eli K P William Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Can a Tibetan singer make the leap from the slow pace of life on the Tibetan plateau to the fast rhythms of urban Beijing? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural? - by Tim Bayne Read at Aeon | Continue reading
What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment and fear. Is the word too hot to use at all? - by Benjamin Chin-Yee Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In the 1930s, the rise of Nazism brought centuries of animosity between Europe’s Catholics and Protestants to an end. Why? - by Udi Greenberg Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Certain slime moulds can make decisions, solve mazes and remember things. What can we learn from the blob? - by Matthew Sims Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For centuries, time-measuring tools were woefully imprecise. Moving from the Sun to water birthed a revolution in timekeeping - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Death is a certainty. But choosing how and when we depart is a modest opportunity for freedom – and dignity - by Michael Cholbi Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Solitary inmates find calm in nature videos in an experiment reflecting the human need to connect with the natural world - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him? - by Sandrine Parageau Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt? - by Elizabeth Kostina Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Everything becomes crab’ is more than an absurd meme. The crab is a deep symbol of our devil’s bargain with technology - by Michael Garfield Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
How the ideas circulating among one noblewoman’s coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought - by Luka Boršić Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed - by Margaret Sibley Read at Aeon | Continue reading
An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them - by Matthew McCormack Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music - by Salwa Halloway Read at Aeon | Continue reading
An immersive data visualisation traces an endangered crane’s perilous migratory path over North America - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
What is it about lulls in conversation that make them so very uncomfortable? It has to do with how we connect with each other - by Rebecca Roache Read at Aeon | Continue reading
What’s the difference between a good explanation and a bad one? A physicist argues this is the key to all human progress - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Women in Afghanistan are prisoners in their own homes. This is the story of Marjan, married at 12 to a Taliban fighter - by Zala & Asad Nariman Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Take a tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece of organic architecture built atop a waterfall in rural Pennsylvania - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors - by Ben Platts-Mills Read at Aeon | Continue reading
With brain swaps and death rays, a little-known French sci-fi genre explored science’s dark possibilities a century ago - by Fleur Hopkins-Loféron Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Join a Romanian family as they prepare for winter in the mountains and reflect on the richness of a slower way of life - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being - by Allison J Pugh Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A tender portrait of the bond between a mother and son, captured over the course of a visitation at a rural Virginia prison - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
A tender portrait of the bond between a mother and child, captured over the course of a visitation at a rural Virginia prison - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
They have big brains, long childhoods and sociable, curious minds. So why haven’t birds developed complex culture? - by Antone Martinho-Truswell Read at Aeon | Continue reading
In the ghost mine town of Sunrise, Wyoming, archaeologists uncover fragments of humanity’s earliest presence in the Americas - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading