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The ethical dilemma of privacy

2025-01-30 19:01:00

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on

- by Aeon Video

The listening gift

2025-01-30 19:00:00

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine

- by Faith Lawrence

Murmurations

2025-01-29 19:01:00

A filmmaker collaborates with a murmuration of starlings to create spellbinding visuals at the intersection of science and art

- by Aeon Video

In praise of subspecies

2025-01-28 19:00:00

To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities

- by Richard Smyth

Voices of Victorians

2025-01-27 19:01:00

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the phonograph

- by Aeon Video

The end of neoliberalism?

2025-01-27 19:00:00

The case of Mexico shows that, despite a proliferating discourse that it is over, neoliberalism is as relentless as ever

- by Inés Escobar González

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