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Asmat encounters

2025-07-14 18:01:00

Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art

- by Aeon Video

An unholy alliance

2025-07-14 18:00:00

In the 1930s, the rise of Nazism brought centuries of animosity between Europe’s Catholics and Protestants to an end. Why?

- by Udi Greenberg

Memories without brains

2025-07-11 18:00:00

Certain slime moulds can make decisions, solve mazes and remember things. What can we learn from the blob?

- by Matthew Sims

Ancient water clocks

2025-07-10 18:01:00

For centuries, time-measuring tools were woefully imprecise. Moving from the Sun to water birthed a revolution in timekeeping

- by Aeon Video

Freedom over death

2025-07-10 18:00:00

Death is a certainty. But choosing how and when we depart is a modest opportunity for freedom – and dignity

- by Michael Cholbi

Blue room

2025-07-09 18:01:00

Solitary inmates find calm in nature videos in an experiment reflecting the human need to connect with the natural world

- by Aeon Video

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