‘This girl, this woman, this… me?’ Helen shares her horrifying experience of being deepfaked for pornography - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In the Middle Ages, a new sense of balance fundamentally altered our understanding of nature and society - by Joel Kaye Read at Aeon | Continue reading
In constantly reaching for past parallels to explain our peculiar times we miss the real lessons of the master historian - by Mark Fisher Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For an aspiring nurse, staying in the US holds out the precarious promise of a life far from China’s strict gender norms - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Could civil disobedience be morally obligatory in a society on a collision course with climate catastrophe? - by Rupert Read Read at Aeon | Continue reading
There’s a mystery of mirror molecules at the origin of life on Earth – and these scientists may have solved it - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
I migrated to my ancestral homeland in a search for identity. It proved to be a humbling experience in (un)belonging - by Jessica Buchleitner Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For an Iñupiat whaling crew north of the Arctic Circle, waiting on the ice for the migration of whales is an act of prayer - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Americans have always borrowed, but how exactly did their lives become so entangled with the power of plastic cards? - by Sean H Vanatta Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Love is much more than a mere emotion or moral ideal. It imbues the world itself and we should learn to move with its power - by Mark Vernon Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Cosmologists understand what happened after the Big Bang. But what was our Universe before then? Enter the quantum multiverse - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The term is ubiquitous and double-edged. It is both a key source of authentic knowledge and a danger to true solidarity - by Patrick J Casey Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For a truly ‘naive melody’, listen as musicians try to mirror a song in realtime, accompanied by a dreamy animation - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The lives of North Africans in France are shaped by a harrowing struggle to belong, marked by postcolonial trauma - by Farah Abdessamad Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Jumping the fire and shaking the house: a joyful beginner’s guide to the ancient Persian celebration of spring renewal - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories, meant to enlarge certain aspects of human life - by Peter West Read at Aeon | Continue reading
We can split light by a prism, sounds by tones, but surely the world of odour is too complex and personal? Strangely, no - by Jason Castro Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Ever since astronomers have looked to the skies, they’ve filled their knowledge gaps with wild theories of alien life - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
How, a century ago, radical freethinkers quietly and persistently subverted Scotland’s Christian establishment - by Felicity Loughlin Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘God gave me enough power to fight for my rights’ – hear the voices of women across Afghanistan over a year of Taliban rule - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The US today has extraordinary levels of gun ownership. But to see this as a venerable tradition is to misread history - by Megan Kang Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Capturing the daily routines of a chain-smoking Polish couple, this short finds an unlikely poetry in life’s mundane rhythms - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Going to a child psychoanalyst four times a week for three years was bad enough. Reading what she wrote about me was worse - by Michael Bacon Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How to use small doses of psychedelics to lift your mood, enhance your focus, and fire your creativity - by Tunde Aideyan Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘There is a world of created things … in the least part of matter’: an introduction to the Universe according to Leibniz - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
It is time to take seriously the painful consequences of appearance discrimination in the workplace - by Andrew Mason Read at Aeon | Continue reading
After Ed Dwight lost out on becoming the first Black astronaut, he carved out a celebrated later career as a sculptor - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy - by Keri Leigh Merritt Read at Aeon | Continue reading
When the flame of ancient Rome goes out, a Vestal Virgin is accused of unchastity and buried alive in a ceremony of sacrifice - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
For Bernard Stiegler, a visionary philosopher of our digital age, technics is the defining feature of human experience - by Bryan Norton Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Like colour-changing styrofoam’: a close-up look at electronic paper shows why it’s still a pale imitation of the real thing - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
After my marriage failed, I strove to create a new family – one made beautiful by the loving way it’s stitched together - by Lily Dunn Read at Aeon | Continue reading
When Bauhaus came to West Africa – Tropical Modernist architecture as a response to the spirit of its people and its climate - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Scientific narratives project social hierarchies onto nature. That’s why we need better metaphors to describe cellular life - by Charudatta Navare Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Is a bit of shuteye on the job really such a big deal? A Swedish expat examines the Philippines’ sleep-at-work culture - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
H P Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror stories, was a philosopher who believed in the total insignificance of humanity - by Sam Woodward Read at Aeon | Continue reading
AI could lead to new ways for people to abuse animals for financial gain. That’s why we need strong ethical guidelines - by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert & Jonathan Birch Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Born of two worlds – his native Somalia and his adoptive Netherlands – life is a wild, creative journey for Abdi - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Paul Tillich was a religious socialist and a profoundly subtle theologian who placed doubt at the centre of his thought - by Ted Farris Read at Aeon | Continue reading
We’re not the only animals that can learn complex, problem-solving behaviours from each other – bumblebees can do it too - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
How the ancient warrior people of the steppes have found themselves on the cultural frontlines of Russia’s war against Ukraine - by Peter Mumford Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A lone glaciologist performs spiritual and scientific rituals to assess humanity’s impact in Bhutan’s sacred mountains - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In caring for and bearing with human suffering, hospital staff perform extreme emotional labour. Is there a better way? - by Susanna Crossman Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Pioneering sociologist Erving Goffman realised that every action is deeply revealing of the social norms by which we live - by Lucy McDonald Read at Aeon | Continue reading
When scientific pursuits are subject to human shortcomings: the Indian scientist made to wait 50 years for his Nobel Prize - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Victoria Benedictsson assumed a male identity, achieved literary stardom, and took her own life. Then Strindberg stole it - by Elisabeth Åsbrink Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How Rick Lowe transformed the idea of ‘art as an object’ into ‘art as a process’ to build and revitalise his Houston community - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
To understand the terrifying futures unleashed by nuclear weapons, we urgently need to return to the deep past - by Maria Stavrinaki Read at Aeon | Continue reading