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Assistant professor of political theory Kevin D Pham argues that Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism is founded upon a unique sense of national shame. Read his insightful Aeon Essay to learn more buff.ly/fcz4CWV
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Assistant professor of political theory Kevin D Pham argues that Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism is founded upon a unique sense of national shame. Read his insightful Aeon Essay to learn more buff.ly/fcz4CWV
Discover how virtual reality is reframing and shedding new light on some of philosophy’s most enduring questions about cognition, epistemology and the nature of reality in this instalment of Aeon’s In Sight series with the renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers buff.ly/7xSFD1m
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Discover how virtual reality is reframing and shedding new light on some of philosophy’s most enduring questions about cognition, epistemology and the nature of reality in this instalment of Aeon’s In Sight series with the renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers buff.ly/7xSFD1m
Inspired by the Nobel Prize in Economics being won by Aeon author Joel Mokyr, this week we’re featuring more Aeon essays from the archive which dive into diverse perspectives on economic history
October 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Inspired by the Nobel Prize in Economics being won by Aeon author Joel Mokyr, this week we’re featuring more Aeon essays from the archive which dive into diverse perspectives on economic history
For centuries we’ve used the declaration of ‘monster’ to eject individuals and groups from being respected as fully human buff.ly/Ny8Dsjo
October 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
For centuries we’ve used the declaration of ‘monster’ to eject individuals and groups from being respected as fully human buff.ly/Ny8Dsjo
Inspired by this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology, we’re revisiting the Aeon archive to take a closer look inward and dive into facts and discoveries about the immune system
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Inspired by this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology, we’re revisiting the Aeon archive to take a closer look inward and dive into facts and discoveries about the immune system
How can you have a picture of the world when your brain is locked up in your skull? Neuroscientist Dale Purves has clues buff.ly/YUoCePx
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
How can you have a picture of the world when your brain is locked up in your skull? Neuroscientist Dale Purves has clues buff.ly/YUoCePx
Today we’re revisiting essays and videos on the human-animal relationship in tribute to Jane Goodall, a tremendous influence on the world. Her life’s work continues to inspire what we do: highlighting our kinship with animals and our responsibility and interdependence with the natural world
October 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Today we’re revisiting essays and videos on the human-animal relationship in tribute to Jane Goodall, a tremendous influence on the world. Her life’s work continues to inspire what we do: highlighting our kinship with animals and our responsibility and interdependence with the natural world
Archival VHS footage from the post-Soviet era documents a shifting world, with poignant echoes in the present moment in this film directed by Max Rykov @nobudge.bsky.social buff.ly/gsO6KeH
September 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Archival VHS footage from the post-Soviet era documents a shifting world, with poignant echoes in the present moment in this film directed by Max Rykov @nobudge.bsky.social buff.ly/gsO6KeH
Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything buff.ly/PAqIygo
August 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything buff.ly/PAqIygo
On #WorldHumanitarianDay, we’re revisiting this article and rethinking what it means to help. Humanitarianism is broken but it can be fixed buff.ly/WzStMyZ
August 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
On #WorldHumanitarianDay, we’re revisiting this article and rethinking what it means to help. Humanitarianism is broken but it can be fixed buff.ly/WzStMyZ
In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with VOR, short for ‘voice of reason’ – a presence that grew louder and increasingly hostile, putting her life at risk. Directed by Nina Ross and Meg Barrett buff.ly/dCkbWhr
August 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with VOR, short for ‘voice of reason’ – a presence that grew louder and increasingly hostile, putting her life at risk. Directed by Nina Ross and Meg Barrett buff.ly/dCkbWhr
From stories whispered by elders to the call of the land, Indigenous knowledge has long safeguarded communities against natural disasters. On #InternationalDayoftheWorldsIndigenousPeoples, we honour these timeless voices of and champion their wisdom in shaping resilient futures buff.ly/WC7el07
August 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
From stories whispered by elders to the call of the land, Indigenous knowledge has long safeguarded communities against natural disasters. On #InternationalDayoftheWorldsIndigenousPeoples, we honour these timeless voices of and champion their wisdom in shaping resilient futures buff.ly/WC7el07
What’s so golden about the golden ratio? In this short animation by @royalsociety.org and BBC Ideas, a myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea buff.ly/Y4W3U0q
July 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
What’s so golden about the golden ratio? In this short animation by @royalsociety.org and BBC Ideas, a myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea buff.ly/Y4W3U0q
The second in a two-part series, this video by 3Blue1Brown provides an engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe buff.ly/m5Mbohb
July 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The second in a two-part series, this video by 3Blue1Brown provides an engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe buff.ly/m5Mbohb
In a seaside village in England, memories flicker to life through the voices of neighbours and friends. This short film by Anna Snowball is a gentle portrait of community, belonging and the stories that linger long after the streets fall silent buff.ly/sDCaZZf
July 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
In a seaside village in England, memories flicker to life through the voices of neighbours and friends. This short film by Anna Snowball is a gentle portrait of community, belonging and the stories that linger long after the streets fall silent buff.ly/sDCaZZf
‘Creativity is integral to diaspora, because it is impossible to replicate home cultures entirely in adopted areas of settlement.’ Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music buff.ly/BqK9Z9i
June 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
‘Creativity is integral to diaspora, because it is impossible to replicate home cultures entirely in adopted areas of settlement.’ Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music buff.ly/BqK9Z9i
Confronted with a prolonged silence during conversation, most of us find ourselves desperately thinking of something to say. But why? What exactly makes an awkward silence feel so awkward? buff.ly/7QoPmzh
June 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Confronted with a prolonged silence during conversation, most of us find ourselves desperately thinking of something to say. But why? What exactly makes an awkward silence feel so awkward? buff.ly/7QoPmzh
What’s the difference between a good explanation and a bad one? In this episode of Closer to Truth, physicist-philosopher David Deutsch argues this is the key to all human progress buff.ly/3q82g2s
June 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
What’s the difference between a good explanation and a bad one? In this episode of Closer to Truth, physicist-philosopher David Deutsch argues this is the key to all human progress buff.ly/3q82g2s
A young Afghan girl, Marjan, was sold into marriage with a Taliban fighter at age 12, embodying the brutal reality faced by many women in rural Afghanistan. Her story offers a rare insight into a closed world. buff.ly/eHSBQ9W
June 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A young Afghan girl, Marjan, was sold into marriage with a Taliban fighter at age 12, embodying the brutal reality faced by many women in rural Afghanistan. Her story offers a rare insight into a closed world. buff.ly/eHSBQ9W
‘If we could stop thinking of the brain like it’s a Rubik’s cube, then perhaps we would have more capacity to talk about what’s truly iconic about Gage: that he survived, both as a body and a person’ buff.ly/1gMuFXd
June 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
‘If we could stop thinking of the brain like it’s a Rubik’s cube, then perhaps we would have more capacity to talk about what’s truly iconic about Gage: that he survived, both as a body and a person’ buff.ly/1gMuFXd
In this documentary, Keenan DesPlanques, a US-born filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada, takes viewers to the ghost mine town of Sunrise, Wyoming, where archaeologists uncover fragments of humanity’s earliest presence in the Americas buff.ly/iqZqmGH
June 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
In this documentary, Keenan DesPlanques, a US-born filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada, takes viewers to the ghost mine town of Sunrise, Wyoming, where archaeologists uncover fragments of humanity’s earliest presence in the Americas buff.ly/iqZqmGH
‘Enchantment and wonder can still coexist with the most serious science.’ How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality buff.ly/QnbZuh8
June 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
‘Enchantment and wonder can still coexist with the most serious science.’ How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality buff.ly/QnbZuh8
‘In an era in which AI is being proposed to do many human jobs, it takes a human to bear effective witness to humanity‘
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible. When people are no longer seen, heard, or valued, isolation becomes a symptom, not the cause buff.ly/OMjFW3i
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible. When people are no longer seen, heard, or valued, isolation becomes a symptom, not the cause buff.ly/OMjFW3i
June 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
‘In an era in which AI is being proposed to do many human jobs, it takes a human to bear effective witness to humanity‘
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible. When people are no longer seen, heard, or valued, isolation becomes a symptom, not the cause buff.ly/OMjFW3i
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible. When people are no longer seen, heard, or valued, isolation becomes a symptom, not the cause buff.ly/OMjFW3i
In this poignant and intimate portrait, US director Pete Quandt captures the nuanced relationship between a mother and son in an unusual prison visitation space, highlighting what it means to love and parent a child under complicated circumstances buff.ly/BCQKuIw
June 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
In this poignant and intimate portrait, US director Pete Quandt captures the nuanced relationship between a mother and son in an unusual prison visitation space, highlighting what it means to love and parent a child under complicated circumstances buff.ly/BCQKuIw
The question of why no species, not even among the fantastically complex and intelligent large parrots, has developed complex, human-like culture is especially compelling in the context of how much birds and humans share. Why don’t birds buy Bentleys and we humans will never fly? buff.ly/d6AvLIp
June 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The question of why no species, not even among the fantastically complex and intelligent large parrots, has developed complex, human-like culture is especially compelling in the context of how much birds and humans share. Why don’t birds buy Bentleys and we humans will never fly? buff.ly/d6AvLIp