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2024-05-08 18:01:00
Meet Hypatia of Alexandria, a rare female – and moderate secular – public intellectual, who was murdered by religious zealots
- by Aeon Video
2024-05-07 18:00:00
We need to find a way for human societies to prosper while the planet heals. So far we can’t even think clearly about it
- by Ville Lähde
2024-05-06 18:01:00
Profile of the pioneering Canadian architect whose modernist designs disintegrated boundaries between structure and place
- by Aeon Video
2024-05-06 18:00:00
New research transports us back to the shadowy firelight of ancient caves, imagining the minds and feelings of the artist
- by Izzy Wisher
2024-05-03 18:00:00
In Jack London’s novel, Martin Eden personifies debates still raging over the role and purpose of education in American life
- by Nick Romeo
2024-05-02 18:01:00
A novel study in rural China suggests that witchcraft accusations may have arisen as a means of damaging female competitors
- by Aeon Video
2024-05-02 18:00:00
In a country of such extraordinary diversity, the UN definition of ‘indigenous’ does little more than fuel ethnic violence
- by Dikshit Sarma Bhagabati
2024-05-01 18:01:00
‘60 per cent community, 40 per cent skateboarding’ – a portrait of London’s growing skate scene on animated sketchbook pages
- by Aeon Video
2024-04-30 18:00:00
Not long ago the search for extraterrestrials was considered laughable nonsense. Today, it’s serious and scientific
- by Adam Frank
2024-04-29 18:01:00
‘This girl, this woman, this… me?’ Helen shares her horrifying experience of being deepfaked for pornography
- by Aeon Video
2024-04-29 18:00:00
In the Middle Ages, a new sense of balance fundamentally altered our understanding of nature and society
- by Joel Kaye
2024-04-26 18:00:00
In constantly reaching for past parallels to explain our peculiar times we miss the real lessons of the master historian
- by Mark Fisher
2024-04-25 18:01:00
For an aspiring nurse, staying in the US holds out the precarious promise of a life far from China’s strict gender norms
- by Aeon Video
2024-04-25 18:00:00
Could civil disobedience be morally obligatory in a society on a collision course with climate catastrophe?
- by Rupert Read
2024-04-24 18:01:00
There’s a mystery of mirror molecules at the origin of life on Earth – and these scientists may have solved it
- by Aeon Video
2024-04-23 18:00:00
I migrated to my ancestral homeland in a search for identity. It proved to be a humbling experience in (un)belonging
- by Jessica Buchleitner
2024-04-22 18:01:00
For an Iñupiat whaling crew north of the Arctic Circle, waiting on the ice for the migration of whales is an act of prayer
- by Aeon Video
2024-04-22 18:00:00
Americans have always borrowed, but how exactly did their lives become so entangled with the power of plastic cards?
- by Sean H Vanatta
2024-04-19 18:00:00
Love is much more than a mere emotion or moral ideal. It imbues the world itself and we should learn to move with its power
- by Mark Vernon
2024-04-18 18:01:00
Cosmologists understand what happened after the Big Bang. But what was our Universe before then? Enter the quantum multiverse
- by Aeon Video