For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful. Psychiatry must embrace new meaning-making frameworks - by Justin Garson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The brilliant Trinidadian thinker is remembered as an admirer of the US but he also warned of its dark political future - by Harvey Neptune Read at Aeon | Continue reading
This is what an old lesbian looks like: the huge, joyful project capturing queer elder women’s stories before they’re lost - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The tide has turned – evidence shows ordinary citizens in the Western world are now richer and more equal than ever before - by Daniel Waldenström Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A close look at the exquisite work of a master luthier as he transforms pieces of wood into a world-class cello in six months - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
It’s not just the planet and not just our health – the impact of a warming climate extends deep into our cortical fissures - by Clayton Page Aldern Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A year at a public school in rural Indiana chronicles how community and education intersect in the American Midwest - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Modernists and historians alike loathed the millions of new houses built in interwar Britain. But their owners loved them - by Michael Gilson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For John Rawls, liberalism was more than a political project: it is the best way to fashion a life that is worthy of happiness - by Alexandre Lefebvre Read at Aeon | Continue reading
In a transfixing melding of art and science, a pianist improvises to a star system’s ‘unusually harmonious’ ratios and rhythms - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Generative AI has lately set off public euphoria: the machines have learned to think! But just how intelligent is AI? - by Deepak P Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Two personal perspectives and the views of world religions on the moral considerations of conceiving one child to save another - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
If human knowledge can disappear so easily, why have so many cultural practices survived without written records? - by Helena Miton Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Experimenting with Japan’s tree surplus, two artists create crayons to help cultivate a closer relationship with forests - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
For far too long, medicine has ignored the valuable insights that patients have into their own diseases. It is time to listen - by Charlotte Blease & Joanne Hunt Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The stunningly complex behaviour of plants has led to a new way of thinking about our world: plant philosophy - by Stella Sandford Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Are those who ponder existence far ahead, or far behind? A search for meaning and purpose in the novel ‘The Moviegoer’ - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
What makes touch on some parts of the body erotic but not others? Cutting-edge biologists are arriving at new answers - by David J Linden Read at Aeon | Continue reading
After violence erupts on the streets of Milwaukee, musicians perform as an act of healing and a protest against hopelessness - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
He was a Catholic, then a rationalist, then a Protestant. Most of all, he exemplified the rise of Arab-Ottoman modernity - by Peter Hill Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Meet the strange starfish that raises its young like birds do, in a deep-sea documentary that uses stunning microscopy - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Knowledge is often a matter of discovery. But when the nature of an enquiry itself is at question, it is an act of creation - by Céline Henne Read at Aeon | Continue reading
To survive, we are asked to forget that our lands and bodies are being violated, policed, ripped up, silenced, sacrificed - by Kelsey Day Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Spud diplomacy – can a potato salad contest ease tensions over a controversial power station between Czech and Polish neighbours? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
When babies are born, they cry in the accent of their mother tongue: how does language begin in the womb? - by Darshana Narayanan Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A rare insight into the extraordinary work of creating a prosthetic leg through measuring, moulding, fitting and feeling - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The philosophy of personalism inspired Martin Luther King’s dream of a better world. We still need its hopeful ideas today - by Bennett Gilbert Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The evocative language of myth and the precise language of geology frame a distinctive portrait of a singular place in Canada - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
So-called ‘classical’ music was as revolutionary as the modern novel in its storytelling, harmony and depth - by Joel Sandelson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
At times complicit in racism and oppression, psychology has also been a fertile ground for radical and liberatory thought - by Rami Gabriel Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Find new appreciation for beetles by watching them fly in ultra-slow motion – while comedian Joe Pera narrates each takeoff - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In her final unfinished work, Hannah Arendt mounted an incisive critique of the idea that we are in search of our true selves - by Samantha Rose Hill Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The D-Day landings turned the tide of war, but their success rested on the uncertain calculations of Allied meteorologists - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Nation-states are no longer fit for purpose to create a habitable future for humans and nature. Which political system is? - by Jonathan S Blake & Nils Gilman Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Dark matter is probably passing through you and me right now’: how one team is hunting for one of the great known unknowns - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Hunter-gatherer societies are highly expert in group deliberation and decision-making which respects both difference and unity - by Vivek V Venkataraman Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Welcome to the new, post-genomic biology: a transformative era in need of fresh metaphors to understand how life works - by Philip Ball Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The dawn of photography helped summon Victorian beliefs in an unseen spirit realm that could be made manifest and contactable - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Once we all had knowledge of how to heal ourselves using plants and animals. The future would be sweeter for renewing it - by Anna Badkhen Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Take a look beyond the myths and misconceptions of dog vision to learn how richly dogs perceive the world around them - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Cut off from her family, Yuge carved ‘circular mantras’ into snow and sand to mark time with a personal ritual of longing - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
A scientific theory that humans arose in multiple parts of the world is the real source of contemporary racist ideas - by Jacob Zellmer Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms - by David Wengrow Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Road signs flash by in a fun exploration of the similarities and subtle variations in messaging from around the world - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
I was searching for meaning and purpose so I became an academic philosopher. Reader, you might guess what happened next - by Pranay Sanklecha Read at Aeon | Continue reading
In its final moments, a microbe moves towards equilibrium in this poignant reflection on life, death and the inbetween - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Windmills were once just machines on the land but now seem delightfully bucolic. Could wind turbines win us over too? - by Stephen Case Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How Manet’s subtly radical works broke the fourth wall, confronting the viewer with paintings that stared back at them - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading