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Inside Fallingwater

2025-06-23 18:01:00

Photo of a modern house built over a waterfall, surrounded by dense green forest and a rocky stream.

Take a tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece of organic architecture built atop a waterfall in rural Pennsylvania

- by Aeon Video

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Injury and inhibition

2025-06-23 18:00:00

Daguerreotype of a man in a Victorian-era suit holding a rod with one eye closed, framed by an ornate gold border.

The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors

- by Ben Platts-Mills

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Merveilleux-scientifique

2025-06-20 18:00:00

Vintage painting of a man with glowing eyes surrounded by floating spheres on a decorative background.

With brain swaps and death rays, a little-known French sci-fi genre explored science’s dark possibilities a century ago

- by Fleur Hopkins-Loféron

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But the flowers remain

2025-06-19 18:01:00

Photo of a woman in a floral headscarf with a man in the background against a rural autumn landscape under a clear sky.

Join a Romanian family as they prepare for winter in the mountains and reflect on the richness of a slower way of life

- by Aeon Video

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The unseen

2025-06-19 18:00:00

A person in a hi-vis vest sitting outdoors at a table with a drink, looking into the distance.

Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being

- by Allison J Pugh

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Weekend visits

2025-06-18 18:01:00

A white playroom with a boy in a tent and his mother reading to him holding stuffed animals, toys scattered around.

A tender portrait of the bond between a mother and child, captured over the course of a visitation at a rural Virginia prison

- by Aeon Video

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