These odd values were long dismissed as bookkeeping. Now physicists are proving that they describe the hidden shape of nature - by Karmela Padavic-Callaghan Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Martha Nussbaum on why Aristotle’s ideas still frame philosophy, how he has been misinterpreted, and where he went wrong - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
It’s impossible to shed our individual biases. So the best way to establish objectivity is by taking on new perspectives - by Heidi Maibom Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Can art help mourners bridge the gap between the mind-boggling COVID-19 death statistics and the individual humans gone? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Throughout history, the most effective combatants have powered to victory on commitment to core values and collective resolve - by Scott Atran Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Lenin envisioned Soviet unity. Stalin called Russia ‘first among equals’. Yet Russian nationalism never went away | Continue reading
Romanticism once radically challenged conventional pieties. Now it’s little more than marketable schlock. What happened? - by Fiona Sampson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
At the crossroads of south and central Asia lies one of the world’s most multilingual places, with songs and poetry to match | Continue reading
Sink into the hypnotic provocation of a 1926 Duchamp film, where spinning discs and wordplay hint at strange symmetries - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Frantic human activity has reduced both cultural and biological diversity. Now we must protect the dwindling alternatives - by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Manufacturing Consent’ shaped a generation of media critics. How has mass media changed since the dawn of the internet age? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Lenin envisioned Soviet unity. Stalin called Russia ‘first among equals’. Yet Russian nationalism never went away - by Joy Neumeyer Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Nick takes a nostalgia trip to the 1990s and Nadia, the mysterious girl whose used CDs shaped his teenage years in Ontario - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The assumption that you own the contents of your pay-packet, although almost universal, is demonstrably confused | Continue reading
Ancient Romans bought mementos to commemorate their travels. These speak eloquently of their world, if we care to listen | Continue reading
Ancient Romans bought mementos to commemorate their travels. These speak eloquently of their world, if we care to listen - by Maggie Popkin Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Why has proving that you’re awake, rather than just intuiting it, been a hard task for philosophers across the centuries? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
We have thought of humans for a century or more as creatures of the savannah, shaped in every way by grassland life. Not so - by Patrick Roberts Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Mythical creatures and mathematical precision met in the Catalan Atlas, a world map that fused Christian and Muslim knowledge - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The city, for all its mechanical speed, artificial light and industrialisation, is the most uncanny of human habitats - by Azania Imtiaz Khatri-Patel Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A gentle meditation on living away from home, with words from a century of letters bridging the distance between people - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Driven by insatiable curiosity, early histologists revealed the hidden structures of cells in works of sensual artistry - by Benjamin Ehrlich Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The closer you look, the more the materialist position in physics appears to rest on shaky metaphysical ground | Continue reading
Solaris and beyond: how Stanisław Lem’s visionary sci-fi anticipated the technologies and anxieties of the modern world | Continue reading
Even the finest restaurants are serving coffee made with capsules. Have we lost faith in the human touch? | Continue reading
At the crossroads of south and central Asia lies one of the world’s most multilingual places, with songs and poetry to match - by Zubair Torwali Read at Aeon | Continue reading
What does it feel like to die? What near-death experiences and hallucinogenic drugs can tell us about the dying process - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Bat friends, monkeys sharing, and humans holding hands: the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another - by Sofia Quaglia Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The history of natural theology shows that Intelligent Design and New Atheism both got it wrong, in strangely similar ways | Continue reading
This arresting work of audiovisual art alerts us to the tragedy of deforestation by dissolving images of rainforests in acid - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The history of natural theology shows that Intelligent Design and New Atheism both got it wrong, in strangely similar ways - by Adam R Shapiro Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How technology gives people with speaking disabilities a voice in a society where their rich inner worlds get overlooked - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
To listen well is not only a kindness to others but also, as the psychologist Carl Rogers made clear, a gift to ourselves | Continue reading
Linear B has yielded its secrets, but Linear A remains elusive. Can linguistic analysis unlock the meaning of Minoan script? | Continue reading
Linear B has yielded its secrets, but Linear A remains elusive. Can linguistic analysis unlock the meaning of Minoan script? - by Ester Salgarella Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Thought experiments played a crucial role in the history of science. But do they tell us anything about the real world? | Continue reading
Protected from human activity and artificial light, synchronous fireflies in southern India create dazzling displays - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The psychic lives of nonhuman dreamers reveal colours, harmonies and beauties of which we had little inkling until now | Continue reading
Here’s a puzzle: why do we neglect and disdain the one vulnerable group we all eventually will join? Beauvoir had an answer | Continue reading
‘When you’re done, you stay human!’ A conversation about gender transition, between John and his twin sister - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Here’s a puzzle: why do we neglect and disdain the one vulnerable group we all eventually will join? Beauvoir had an answer - by Kate Kirkpatrick & Sonia Kruks Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Solaris and beyond: how Stanisław Lem’s visionary sci-fi anticipated the technologies and anxieties of the modern world - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Democracy is a system of politics that has disagreement at its heart. But how do we stop conflicts becoming destructive? - by Rochelle DuFord Read at Aeon | Continue reading
View the Universe in terms of processes, not objects, and you’ll see improvements in science, public policy and relationships | Continue reading
How our toothy modern smile was invented by a confluence of French dentistry and Parisian portrait-painting in the 1780s | Continue reading
How our toothy modern smile was invented by a confluence of French dentistry and Parisian portrait-painting in the 1780s - by Colin Jones Read at Aeon | Continue reading
To renew Yosemite Valley, California should embrace once-outlawed Indigenous practices of managing fire to sustain resources - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
When 1970s women artists put the female body under the female gaze, why did the critics see only obscene monsters? - by Lauren Elkin Read at Aeon | Continue reading