The most ardent deniers of anthropogenic climate change today will become the climate conspiracy theorists of tomorrow - by Ákos Szegőfi Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A year in the making, the elaborate, wearable artworks of the Black Masking Indians are a unique New Orleans tradition - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
A year in the making, the elaborate, wearable artworks of the Black Masking Indians are a unique New Orleans tradition - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
We can all be inconsistent. Philosophy illuminates a bigger puzzle: how do we hold contradictory beliefs at the same time? - by Alex Worsnip Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The side-eye, the raised eyebrow – watch the sweet, peculiar rallies of a long-married couple in intimate conversation - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Traditionalist and modernist architecture are both mass-produced, industrial and international. Is there an alternative? - by Owen Hatherley Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The genome is the starting point for a performance we enact over a lifetime, not a blueprint we’ve got to follow - by Richard O Prum Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Fast, faster, or incredibly fast: an aerospace engineer envisions three possible ways we could travel to distant stars - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
When we imagine ourselves as another creature, we become more attuned to the world around us – and better at being human - by Erica Berry Read at Aeon | Continue reading
In a message to her husband from the confusion of his sudden illness, Pilar reflects on the strange, tangled circuity of time - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In the 19th century, civil wars tore apart the US, Mexico and Argentina. Then came democracy’s fight against reaction - by Evan C Rothera Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Our endeavours animate our lives, giving them depth and meaning’: what we lose when we outsource our creativity to ChatGPT - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Linguistic relativity holds that your worldview is structured by the language you speak. Is it true? History shines a light - by James McElvenny Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The manifesto was always a hotheaded call to arms. Then it got a slick, digital makeover in the cause of coldblooded hate - by Tyler Thier Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Meet Walker Estes, a Deaf prison chaplain whose advocacy was shaped by his daughter’s experience of incarceration - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Some friends are ‘close’. Others are ‘distant’. But our spatial descriptions of social life are more than just metaphors - by David Borkenhagen Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Each snowflake’s unique symmetry is a beautiful illustration of the natural laws that govern all things great and small - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Before modern Europe existed there was a grand, interconnected political world, rich in scientific and artistic exchange - by Ayşe Zarakol Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A bicycle seat, a shell and an ice cream, among other things, take the place of an artist’s head in some surreal vignettes - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
When self-replicating craft bring life to the far Universe, a religious cult, not science, is likely to be the driving force - by Jay Olson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
To the detriment of the public, scientists and historians don’t engage with one another. They must begin a new dialogue - by Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How Bernini’s dynamic sculptures captured the passionate, theatrical mood of the Baroque era, and made all of Rome a stage - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Once a centre of Afghan culture, Sufism seems to have disappeared in the maelstrom of war and upheaval. But still it survives - by Annika Schmeding Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Solar eclipses are a happy astronomical accident. They were once even more spectacular, and will eventually fade away - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The intrepid logician Kurt Gödel believed in the afterlife. In four heartfelt letters to his mother he explained why - by Alexander T Englert Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For Rachel Bespaloff, philosophy was a sensual activity shaped by the rhythm of history, embodied in an instant of freedom - by Isabel Jacobs Read at Aeon | Continue reading
See the hidden movement in the natural world, thanks to ‘motion extraction’, a filmmaker’s innovative digital effect - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Architectural drawing speaks of mathematical precision, but its roots lie in the theological exegesis of a prophetic book - by Karl Kinsella Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘They are pure mathematics – they’re like stars’: an experimental sculptor reflects on the lessons he’s learnt from cacti - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Bereft and suicidal, I lay on my sofa. Only David Foster Wallace’s novel kept me tethered to life, and still does - by Mala Chatterjee Read at Aeon | Continue reading
For its few remaining speakers, the whistled language of the Hmong offers deep connection to the natural and spirit worlds - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
From its mythic beginnings in a Chinese garden, the story of silk is a window into how weaving has shaped human history - by Peter Frankopan, Marie-Louise Nosch & Feng Zhao Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Three earthquakes hit Mexico City on the same date in 1985, 2017 and 2022. The coincidence left the city stranded in time - by Lachlan Summers Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Are these triangles propelled by music, or is it a sensory trick? Origami and a heady score create a synaesthetic experience - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Bending a mysterious world to your will was the goal of esoteric practices. Now it’s the unashamed aim of the tech titans - by Tara Isabella Burton Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Born in Alabama when segregation was still law, Bonnie’s story charts how systemic racism shaped the contours of her life - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling - by Gary Lupyan Read at Aeon | Continue reading
I was the victim of a carjacking. The trauma from that experience was unendurable. Then I discovered eye movement therapy - by Madison McLoughlin Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The US military’s greatest enemy worked in an institution saturated with military funding. How did it shape his thought? - by Chris Knight Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Digging into the pre-history of atheism, the historian Alec Ryrie finds its roots in medieval incredulity and resentments - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
From the Irish Giant to the Ancient One, is it ever ethical for scientists and museums to study bodies without permission? - by Anita Guerrini Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How ancient Hawaiian ways of understanding the natural world led to a scientific breakthrough for managing local waterways - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
A 17th-century classic of Ethiopian philosophy might be a fake. Does it matter, or is that just how philosophy works? - by Jonathan Egid Read at Aeon | Continue reading
More than just catchy, Beethoven’s Fifth is a true Romantic masterwork that channelled self-expression and inner turmoil - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Devon, 1970s: I’m a rector’s son, hanging out with Boz the biker. My life is about to open up – what does it promise for him? - by Tim Pears Read at Aeon | Continue reading
I tried to go to a sacred place atop a mountain. But there are some places we cannot go – and some things we cannot know - by Nick Hunt Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Meet Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, two Russian artists whose work subverted both the Soviet state and the US art scene - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Space junk surrounds Earth, posing a dangerous threat. But there is a way to turn the debris into opportunity - by Angelos Alfatzis Read at Aeon | Continue reading