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Signal then storm

2026-07-24 18:00:00

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Allan Basbaum has spent 50 years searching the nervous system for the places where pain begins – and where it can be stopped

- by Stephani Sutherland

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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

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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

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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

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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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