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Why history is always political

2024-12-20 19:00:00

In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life

- by Rosario López

Boat people

2024-12-19 19:01:00

The self-sacrifice of ants to save their colonies is an allegory and a euphemism in one family’s story of fleeing Vietnam

- by Aeon Video

Laboratories of the impossible

2024-12-19 19:00:00

By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics

- by Joshua Roebke

Boca Chica

2024-12-18 19:01:00

A portrait of the Texas coastline occupied by SpaceX reveals the footprints we leave on Earth in the quest to reach beyond it

- by Aeon Video

Roaming rocks

2024-12-17 19:00:00

Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth

- by Marcia Bjornerud

Household objects up close

2024-12-16 19:01:00

When you aim a powerful macroscopic camera at everyday items, the micro-world around us becomes only faintly familiar

- by Aeon Video

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