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
In order to make headway on knotty metaphysical problems, philosophers should look to the methods used by scientists - by Nina Emery Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘We can make beautiful things, even in a place like Guantánamo’: how Moath al-Alwi preserves his humanity in prison - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
For Indians to be truly free, Gandhi argued they must take up traditional crafts. Was it a quixotic hope or inspired solution? - by Benjamin Studebaker Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Members of a Japanese religious movement carve out happy lives in small-town Colorado in this short documentary - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
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