A ceramicist puts a playful twist on Italian Renaissance pottery with dirty jokes, emojis and colourful commentary on menopause - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
By understanding the pernicious myths surrounding poverty, we can make progress towards a lofty goal: dignity for all - by Anirudh Krishna & Dirk Philipsen Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Humans are both the gravest threat and the greatest hope for the survival of the rare hoolock gibbons in northeast India - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Moral panics about erotica have coursed through the country’s history. Why do so many Americans think of porn as harm? - by Rebecca L Davis Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical creativity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting - by Peter Harrison Read at Aeon | Continue reading
In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
More than any other conflict, Israel/Palestine has provoked extraordinarily fervent emotion throughout the world. Why? - by Derek Jonathan Penslar Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in the Amazon basin tell us - by Ben Daitz Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine - by Faith Lawrence Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A filmmaker collaborates with a murmuration of starlings to create spellbinding visuals at the intersection of science and art - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities - by Richard Smyth Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the phonograph - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The case of Mexico shows that, despite a proliferating discourse that it is over, neoliberalism is as relentless as ever - by Inés Escobar González Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe - by Vanessa A Seifert Read at Aeon | Continue reading
An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
How Pentecostalism’s prosperity gospel replaced Catholic liberation theology in Latin American life - by Elle Hardy Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum, part work of art, and wholly individual - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
For twenty years, I was a practising psychotherapist. Today I believe it has no foundation in science and often causes harm - by Niklas Serning Read at Aeon | Continue reading
What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about the world, or a need to dominate it? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself - by Hannah H Kim Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome - by Eric Schwitzgebel Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world - by Max McGuinness Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Despite decades of inaction we can avert the climate Hellocene and restore the atmosphere to keep our world habitable - by Rob Jackson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith agreed that vanity was all too human. But one saw it as a vice; the other, as a necessity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Nurses experience deep suffering when they can’t act according to their moral compass. Our research shows a way forward - by Cynda Hylton Rushton Read at Aeon | Continue reading
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history - by Inanna Hamati-Ataya Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Returning to the cold case of the disappearing frogs of Costa Rica, a biologist reveals a hard truth about life on Earth - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Praying is a cognitive practice full of problem-solving resources. You can learn from it even if you don’t want to do it - by Eleanor Schille-Hudson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The history, development and force of the sublime in Western art shows how what we fear and wonder at changes over time - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
We surveyed thousands of scientists in four countries and learned just how important beauty is to them - by Bridget Ritz & Brandon Vaidyanathan Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The stories of two Muslim immigrants who fought for the Union show that the American Civil War was an international fight - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest - by Gemma McKenzie Read at Aeon | Continue reading
In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life - by Rosario López Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The self-sacrifice of ants to save their colonies is an allegory and a euphemism in one family’s story of fleeing Vietnam - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics - by Joshua Roebke Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A portrait of the Texas coastline occupied by SpaceX reveals the footprints we leave on Earth in the quest to reach beyond it - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth - by Marcia Bjornerud Read at Aeon | Continue reading
When you aim a powerful macroscopic camera at everyday items, the micro-world around us becomes only faintly familiar - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The British Empire used a great democratic ideal to manufacture racial difference and rationalise colonial domination - by Kanika Sharma Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Often metaphorical and allusive, the philosopher’s work will long be remembered for how it grappled with everyday thought - by Tim Bayne Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘That’ll be a thing to remember’ – a soldier’s account of the ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914 in a stirring letter to his wife - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Religious ritual to appease the gods or free expression of human agency? For the ancient Romans, dance could be both - by Karin Schlapbach Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Are you a mind with a body or a body with a mind?’ The legacy of a 1970 ‘head transplant’ experiment performed on monkeys - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The progressive and remarkably innovative Woodmead School briefly flourished amid the viciousness of apartheid South Africa - by David Dyzenhaus Read at Aeon | Continue reading