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Cuteness overload! What makes us want to touch, pinch and squeeze adorable creatures is still a bit of a mystery for science - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Watch as a traditional artisan of Noh masks cuts, carves and paints an eerily lifelike human face from a single block of wood - by Aeon Video Watch...
Two filmmakers, awaiting the result of a pregnancy test, take turns recording their experiences in this honest, intimate short - by Aeon Video Watch...
War and wine: how decadent Persian wine vessels were given a playful, dynamic makeover in the hands of Athenian potters - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
How the celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt captured apartheid’s contradictions in stark black and white - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Should we believe in beliefs? A radical philosophy of mind says its time to ditch such immaterial concepts once and for all - by Aeon Video Watch at...
What if massive ocean worlds – ‘Hycean’ planets – are a better bet in the search for life than terrestrial exoplanets? - by Aeon Video Watch...
How can an all-powerful, all-loving god allow suffering in the world? A Catholic philosopher explains the problem of evil - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The intimacy that developed between an artist and his muse over hundreds of sittings is an exercise in love and drawing - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Amid ecological catastrophe, is the rise of simulation theory just a way to find ‘solace in the face of paralysis’? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
A mesmerising music video uses innovative stop-motion animation to reveal, slice-by-slice, the patterns and hues in wood - by Aeon Video Watch at...
When Sébastien finally meets his father and travels to his native Rwanda, he finds the answers to his lifelong questions - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The 400-year-old book that first collected Shakespeare’s plays will take you on a riveting journey through theatre history - by Aeon Video Watch at...
In a poignant portrait of grief and the strength it can inspire, Yasuo searches the sea for his wife, lost in a tsunami - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Why architects should take inspiration from the sustainable ways that animals build, and integrate wildlife into their work - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Why did Maoist mango mania grip China in the 1960s? Animating the history of the Cultural Revolution’s painful decade - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Investigating where the ‘free will’ debate currently stands, from the vantage of neuroscience, physics and moral philosophy - by Aeon Video Watch...
With a deep view of time, a regenerative forester extracts resources to cultivate growth in an ancient English rainforest - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Once considered fanciful, today data visualisation charts, and changes, our world. But it can misinform as much as it informs - by Aeon Video Watch...
From flowers to teapots to amphibians, hundreds of 19th-century engravings form a dizzying contemplation of consciousness - by Aeon Video Watch at...
On the eve of a pivotal presidential election in Tunisia, women at a hair salon debate the 26 candidates – and their future - by Aeon Video Watch...
The colourised deep-space images from NASA are more than just intergalactic eye candy – they help us understand better - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A knife cuts, an eye sees. And, to achieve our highest purpose, humans should philosophise – according to Aristotle - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
From civil rights marches to moonwalks, historical imagery that belongs to everyone is locked away behind paywalls. Why? - by Aeon Video Watch at...
‘It’s like being in love with someone’: Barry Duncan, MIT’s master palindromist, spells out his ‘doubly satisfying’ process - by Aeon...
A fun toy or a terrible warning – what does the arrival in 1964 of the first TV transmitter to Scottish Shetland portend? - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How Goya went from royal portraiture and Church commissions to a series of ‘Black Paintings’ without even a hint of God - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Carl Sagan explains how, with just ‘sticks, eyes, feet and brains’, an ancient Greek polymath first calculated Earth’s size - by Aeon Video...
They appear from the sea ice – the eerie tradition celebrated by the Labrador Inuit people of Canada every 6 January - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
If all artists take inspiration from previous artists’ work, does AI art really pose a new threat to human creativity? - by Aeon Video Watch at...
From clay to ceramic, making a Korean moon jar is a meticulous process that reflects ancient Confucian values - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
‘Reclaiming myself and my image’ – one woman’s powerful, lyrical meditation on childhood trauma and personal transformation - by Aeon Video...
A slice-of-life documentary on Mumbai’s curious poster politics offers a wry commentary on self-image in the digital age - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How an imaginative piece of medieval cartography navigates history, mythology and religion to orient us in the Middle Ages - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The Great Salt Lake’s ecosystem in free fall. What’s the emotional toll of watching it evaporate before your eyes? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
The French artist Alain Biet’s ‘visual symphony of everyday objects’ celebrates human ingenuity by mining magic from the mundane - by Aeon...
Watch as a computer code visualises, in real time, the ratios embedded in a virtuoso musician’s improvisations on the piano - by Aeon Video Watch...
How one man’s activism helped uncover the reckless nuclear tests that contaminated lands and bodies in South Australia - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A precise digital construction of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon prison offers a subtle commentary on power and surveillance - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Why don’t we experience ‘quantum weirdness’ in our everyday lives? A brief dive into the current crossroads of physics - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How the Parthenon Marbles came to be on display in the British Museum, thousands of miles from the temple they once adorned - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Why Laura Leigh campaigns to protect the magnificent sight of wild horses running free in the Western United States - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Step inside a century-old cinema in Japan and experience the nostalgic charms of watching (and hearing) film through a projector - by Aeon Video...
An operatic, 3D-animated tour of some of the most fascinating exoplanets yet discovered reveals burning ice and gemstone rain - by Aeon Video Watch...
Les worried that transitioning would ruin his life with Scott and their children. Instead, it strengthened their family bond - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A whimsical felted take on the prisoner’s dilemma, the classic game-theory puzzle with real-world political implications - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Étienne-Louis Boullée imagined structures for an ideal new social order. These designs were never built, but his ideas endure - by Aeon Video Watch...
Enter a workshop where the world’s oldest board game is still made by hand, in a meticulous, deeply satisfying process - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How do vampires remain undead? They stay culturally relevant by evolving to reflect the anxieties of each passing age - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Why ‘panspermia theory’ – the wild idea of microbes ‘hitchhiking’ on meteoroids through the cosmos – is now taken seriously - by Aeon...