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Why has proving that you’re awake, rather than just intuiting it, been a hard task for philosophers across the centuries? - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Mythical creatures and mathematical precision met in the Catalan Atlas, a world map that fused Christian and Muslim knowledge - by Aeon Video Watch...
A gentle meditation on living away from home, with words from a century of letters bridging the distance between people - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
What does it feel like to die? What near-death experiences and hallucinogenic drugs can tell us about the dying process - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
This arresting work of audiovisual art alerts us to the tragedy of deforestation by dissolving images of rainforests in acid - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How technology gives people with speaking disabilities a voice in a society where their rich inner worlds get overlooked - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Protected from human activity and artificial light, synchronous fireflies in southern India create dazzling displays - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
‘When you’re done, you stay human!’ A conversation about gender transition, between John and his twin sister - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Solaris and beyond: how Stanisław Lem’s visionary sci-fi anticipated the technologies and anxieties of the modern world - by Aeon Video Watch at...
To renew Yosemite Valley, California should embrace once-outlawed Indigenous practices of managing fire to sustain resources - by Aeon Video Watch at...
For Ludwig Wittgenstein, words derive their meaning within the ‘language game’ that we all play but can never escape - by Aeon Video Watch at...
High-tech gadgetry and practical ingenuity came together in the BBC workshop that jumpstarted an electronic music revolution - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Ludwig Wittgenstein and the ‘language game’ we all play but can never escape: John Searle in conversation with Bryan Magee - by Aeon Video Watch...
Is it forgery to draw banknotes and call them art? The audacious art project that changed how the Bank of England prints notes - by Aeon Video Watch...
‘What is liberation when so much has already been taken?’ A lyrical meditation on cultural memory after colonisation in Goa - by Aeon Video Watch...
Maria Sibylla Merian’s groundbreaking illustrations of the metamorphosis of insects are a tribute to patient observation - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How our brains repurpose primitive circuitry to help us grasp abstract concepts, behave socially and navigate the modern world - by Aeon Video Watch...
An endurance runner explains how pain, elation and transcendence converge on the 50-mile trail through the Grand Canyon - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Take a deep dive into Hieronymus Bosch’s Renaissance triptych on earthly pleasures to see its deeply conservative message - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How the US architect and artist James Wines ‘put art where you least expect to find it’ – in big-box stores design - by Aeon Video Watch at...
An electric circuit, a salt solution and a wooden board demonstrate how electricity ignites, in this mini fireworks show - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How Kurt Gödel used the paradox ‘This statement cannot be proved’ to shatter the notion of total certainty in mathematics - by Aeon Video Watch...
‘You are such an interesting conversation.’ Pádraig Ó Tuama’s tender poem is a guide to being comfortable in one’s own company - by Aeon...
The Jewish woman who turned away from God thanks to ‘the Google’, finding atheism – and bacon – only in her later years - by Aeon Video Watch...
‘Make sure you come back alive’: the last days at home with his grandfather before Artem, 18, leaves to fight for Ukraine - by Aeon Video Watch...
The feminist academic who heard the call of the forgotten women of surrealism and went on a mindbending trip to find them - by Aeon Video Watch at...
View the Universe in terms of processes, not objects, and you’ll see improvements in science, public policy and relationships - by Aeon Video Watch...
How the deep neural network that can restore, date and place ancient texts is working to fill in the blanks of history - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Street dogs in the ancient city of Kars roam free, fight and and occasionally join in the humans’ call to prayer - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Street dogs in the ancient Turkish city of Kars roam free, fight and and occasionally join in the humans’ call to prayer - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The story of China’s one-child policy is told by felt puppets with fabricated memories in this acclaimed short animation - by Aeon Video Watch at...
In the hands of a ceramicist-animator, pottery is a cyclical, elemental art form, deeply connected to the rhythms of nature - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Unearthed audio recalls how a 1970 ‘leadership seminar’ descended into depravity, and why its participants went along with it - by Aeon Video...
The art critic John Ruskin believed words couldn’t capture nature’s beautiful palette. So here it is in black and white - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A man scaling a house of cards; a porcupine surrounded by balloons – wry animations on anxiety, aspiration and actuality - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Does the artist’s intention matter, or is it indeed all in the eye of the beholder? The ongoing debate brought to animated life - by Aeon Video...
Time seems to stand still on a small island in Belgrade where a father lives alone, grieving his daughter in quiet solitude - by Aeon Video Watch at...
What would a sketch of your partner, or your twin, or you look like if drawn by an artist working from your words alone? - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A collector of vintage album art on savouring all things kitschy and campy, and his hunt for the record that got away - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
A hand-painted animation of the Mongolian wind burial tradition, in which a body gets swept up from the Earthly to infinite - by Aeon Video Watch at...
When Paradise, California burned, its teens became instant climate refugees. How do they rebuild their lives from the ashes? - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The exquisite eye-candy of magnets meeting ferrofluid reveals an oft-hidden force that is still mysterious to scientists - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A collaboration over 365 days between a musician and a storyteller results in a poignant reflection on age and memory - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
‘My life isn’t your porn’: what the spy-cam epidemic in South Korea says about the country’s law enforcement and gender equality - by Aeon...
A 1969 documentary goes inside a samurai sword workshop to explore the craft and history behind the iconic Japanese weapon - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The nail-biting night of the US presidential elections in 2020 from the perspectives of eager onlookers across the country - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Autistic children and adults sketch out the look and feel of their sensory world in an early awareness-raising film - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
How the Dorze people in southern Ethiopia build ‘beehive’ houses from bamboo that can last their residents a lifetime - by Aeon Video Watch at...