Don’t let them fool you

The fear of being duped is ubiquitous, but excessive scepticism makes it harder to trust one another and cooperate - by Tess Wilkinson-Ryan Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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The science of cuteness

Cuteness overload! What makes us want to touch, pinch and squeeze adorable creatures is still a bit of a mystery for science - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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Matrimony and the market

The sexual revolution promised new norms of intimacy based on egalitarianism. So far, only the rich have cashed in - by Daniel Tutt Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Making a Noh mask

Watch as a traditional artisan of Noh masks cuts, carves and paints an eerily lifelike human face from a single block of wood - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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Models of antiquity

Radicals in the Age of Revolution saw the classical world as a common inheritance that could aid their fight for liberty - by Francesca Langer Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Beautiful!

Two filmmakers, awaiting the result of a pregnancy test, take turns recording their experiences in this honest, intimate short - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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The art of rules

Conceptual art often confounds. The key is to understand the rules of the artwork and the aesthetic experiences they yield - by Sherri Irvin Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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A philosophy of secrets

Jacques Derrida was fascinated by the figure of the Marrano Jew, whose identity could barely be told even to themselves - by Peter Salmon Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Ancient wine drinking

War and wine: how decadent Persian wine vessels were given a playful, dynamic makeover in the hands of Athenian potters - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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The sonnet machine

A sonnet contains an emotional drama of illusion and deception, crisis and resolution, crafted to make us think and feel - by Timothy Hampton Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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David Goldblatt in Johannesburg

How the celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt captured apartheid’s contradictions in stark black and white - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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How to mourn a forest

The Marind people of West Papua deploy mourning not only to grieve their animal and plant kin but as political resistance - by Sophie Chao Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Eliminative materialism

Should we believe in beliefs? A radical philosophy of mind says its time to ditch such immaterial concepts once and for all - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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Time is an object

Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories - by Sara Walker & Lee Cronin Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Water worlds

What if massive ocean worlds – ‘Hycean’ planets – are a better bet in the search for life than terrestrial exoplanets? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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The Swedish theory of love

All countries must balance the freedom of individuals with the demands of the community. Sweden’s solution is unique - by Lars Trägårdh Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Eleonore Stump on the problem of evil

How can an all-powerful, all-loving god allow suffering in the world? A Catholic philosopher explains the problem of evil - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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The post-linguistic turn

Analytic and continental philosophers were once united in their obsession with language. But now new questions have arisen - by Crispin Sartwell Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Drawings of my BF

The intimacy that developed between an artist and his muse over hundreds of sittings is an exercise in love and drawing - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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Reckoning with compassion

After an abuse scandal destroyed my Buddhist community, I had to reconsider what it means to live an ethically attuned life - by Jessica Locke Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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The joy of sulk

Full of implicit rules and paradoxes, sulking is a marvellous example of intense communication without clear declaration - by Rebecca Roache Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Our ark

Amid ecological catastrophe, is the rise of simulation theory just a way to find ‘solace in the face of paralysis’? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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Why not scientism?

Science is not the only form of knowledge but it is the best, being the most successful epistemic enterprise in history - by Moti Mizrahi Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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WoodSwimmer

A mesmerising music video uses innovative stop-motion animation to reveal, slice-by-slice, the patterns and hues in wood - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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The war on cancer

Is it time to abandon the century-old idea that cancer is best met with a ‘fight’ from patients and their doctors alike? - by Elaine Schattner Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Ndagukunda déjà (I love you, already)

When Sébastien finally meets his father and travels to his native Rwanda, he finds the answers to his lifelong questions - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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A thickness in the air

The spooky sensation that someone or something else is right there haunts us all. But what does this felt presence mean? - by Ben Alderson-Day Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Shakespeare’s First Folio

The 400-year-old book that first collected Shakespeare’s plays will take you on a riveting journey through theatre history - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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The free dogs of India

These canines have independent, peaceful, happy lives without a pet’s constraints. Why are they being persecuted and culled? - by Krithika Srinivasan & Chris Pearson Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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The diver

In a poignant portrait of grief and the strength it can inspire, Yasuo searches the sea for his wife, lost in a tsunami - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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Self-satisfaction

The ancient Cynics taught that masturbation is about more than pleasure: it suggests how to live simply and autonomously - by M D Usher Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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How to design architecture for wildlife

Why architects should take inspiration from the sustainable ways that animals build, and integrate wildlife into their work - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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A new paganism

Now is the time to revitalise our relationship with nature and immerse ourselves in the little wonders of the universe - by Ed Simon Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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All is One

The ancient philosophy of monism and the physics of quantum entanglement agree: all that exists is one unified whole - by Heinrich Päs Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Mao’s mango cult

Why did Maoist mango mania grip China in the 1960s? Animating the history of the Cultural Revolution’s painful decade - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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Disorient yourself

Now associated with childhood fun, the swing has a near-universal history of ritual transgression and transformation - by Javier Moscoso Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Three ways to think about free will

Investigating where the ‘free will’ debate currently stands, from the vantage of neuroscience, physics and moral philosophy - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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In praise of irritation

Unlike anger, irritation has neither glamour nor radicalism on its side. Yet it might just be the mood we need right now - by Will Rees Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Time travel in Britain’s lost rainforests

With a deep view of time, a regenerative forester extracts resources to cultivate growth in an ancient English rainforest - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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The virtue of discretion

When the rules break down, you must judge what to do on your own. Discretion is necessary for navigating the muddle of life - by Lorraine Daston Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Five graphs that changed the world

Once considered fanciful, today data visualisation charts, and changes, our world. But it can misinform as much as it informs - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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Octopus time

We humans are forward-facing, gravity-bound plodders. Can the liquid motion of the octopus radicalise our ideas about time? - by David Borkenhagen Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Still life

From flowers to teapots to amphibians, hundreds of 19th-century engravings form a dizzying contemplation of consciousness - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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Guide to a foreign past

The iconoclastic French historian Paul Veyne illuminated the past by showing how deeply alien it is to the present - by Carlos Noreña Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Ain’t no time for women

On the eve of a pivotal presidential election in Tunisia, women at a hair salon debate the 26 candidates – and their future - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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Patterns of the lifeworld

Machine learning theory is shedding new light on how to think about the mysterious and ineffable nature of art - by Peli Grietzer Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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Animal, vegetable, mineral

Cruel and unscientific, the ‘vegetative state’ diagnosis stems from a hierarchical and bigoted view of all living things - by Ben Platts-Mills Read at Aeon | Continue reading


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How Hubble images are made

The colourised deep-space images from NASA are more than just intergalactic eye candy – they help us understand better - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading


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