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All the Queens houses

2026-07-23 18:01:00

Colourful terraced houses with distinct architectural styles, featuring a car parked in front.

To the trained eye, the personalised homes of Queens, NYC, evoke everything from a Venetian streetscape to a Chinese temple

- by Aeon Video

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The savage bites back

2026-07-23 18:00:00

Painting of a abstracted figure resting their head on their hand, a sun, and cactus on a blue background.

Rooted in Brazilian modernism, anthropophagy devours and transforms culture, subverting colonial fears of cannibalism

- by Sofia Cándano

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Can cells think?

2026-07-22 18:01:00

Close-up photo of a cross-sectioned orange slice with intricate fibrous details against a dark background.

Inside the lab of a biologist who is seeking to understand intelligence by focusing on problem-solving, not neurons

- by Aeon Video

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The people’s atheist

2026-07-21 18:00:00

Painting of two figures praying in a field at dusk with a pitchfork and wheelbarrow nearby, evoking a serene, rural setting.

Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey

- by Nidal Taibi

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The Skinner revolution

2026-07-20 18:01:00

Photo of a man in a white shirt holding a pigeon with three flying doves behind, set against a black background.

A 1979 doc examining the life and ideas of B F Skinner, with a focus on his radical, controversial behaviour experiments

- by Aeon Video

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Beyond Greece and Rome

2026-07-20 18:00:00

Golden sculpture of a chariot with two riders and four horses on a black background.

A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’

- by Carlos Noreña

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