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A lone glaciologist performs spiritual and scientific rituals to assess humanity’s impact in Bhutan’s sacred mountains - by Aeon Video Watch at...
When scientific pursuits are subject to human shortcomings: the Indian scientist made to wait 50 years for his Nobel Prize - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How Rick Lowe transformed the idea of ‘art as an object’ into ‘art as a process’ to build and revitalise his Houston community - by Aeon...
‘You prefer to dine at some nobody’s house!’ How an ancient Roman responded to the deep sting of being snubbed - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Selfishness is an enduring part of the human condition. For Iris Murdoch, the antidote is to decentre oneself from the world - by Aeon Video Watch at...
‘We’re both caught up in the music’: A hunter tries to understand his place in the cycle of living – and dying – things - by Aeon Video...
A father seeks to heal his community and find his granddaughter, after his son’s terrorist attack on Paris in November 2015 - by Aeon Video Watch...
It wasn’t aliens, but the first interstellar object found in our solar system still has much to teach us about the cosmos - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How a playful experiment, motivated by scientists’ curiosity, could have novel applications in the realm of quantum optics - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How medieval Christianity met humanist philosophy in Botticelli’s masterful Renaissance painting ‘The Birth of Venus’ - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The making of a revolution – the exciting history of the CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough, from the two women who did it - by Aeon Video Watch at...
‘It was a Boy Scout camp, and I was far from a Boy Scout’ – shadow puppetry illuminates a skater kid’s unforgettable summer - by Aeon Video...
‘If we have any chance at all, then this is our chance – that we become calm’: a Zen Buddhist meditates on humanity’s fate - by Aeon Video...
Before the clock strikes on new year’s day, meet the man who made it his life’s work to create singular celebratory moments - by Aeon Video Watch...
Orphaned by military night raids, a reporter returns to her native Afghanistan to investigate the trauma left behind - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
The daily grind of non-playable characters offers a clever critique of capitalism’s ‘infinite loop of labour performance’ - by Aeon Video Watch...
Afraid of flying, Diego travels the world through Google Maps where he discovers a treasured memory from his childhood - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Emilio Ambasz’s pioneering designs begin with a recognition that nature is human-made, paving the way for sustainable shelter - by Aeon Video Watch...
From hearts and flowers to mean ‘vinegar Valentines’ – a fascinating look through the V&A’s cards archive from 1780 onward - by Aeon Video...
For its winter caretaker of 50 years, Yellowstone National Park is a fragile place, not the unconquerable one of mythos - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Medieval barbers didn’t just give haircuts – they performed a variety of surgeries, from tooth extraction to amputation - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Cryptic visuals combine with a haunting score to deliver a Socratic exchange on the nature (and dangers) of oratory - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
In rural India, witch hunts are still an enduring, deadly reality. Ana’s disturbing story is just one of hundreds - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
A year in the making, the elaborate, wearable artworks of the Black Masking Indians are a unique New Orleans tradition - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
A year in the making, the elaborate, wearable artworks of the Black Masking Indians are a unique New Orleans tradition - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
The side-eye, the raised eyebrow – watch the sweet, peculiar rallies of a long-married couple in intimate conversation - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Fast, faster, or incredibly fast: an aerospace engineer envisions three possible ways we could travel to distant stars - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
In a message to her husband from the confusion of his sudden illness, Pilar reflects on the strange, tangled circuity of time - by Aeon Video Watch...
‘Our endeavours animate our lives, giving them depth and meaning’: what we lose when we outsource our creativity to ChatGPT - by Aeon Video Watch...
Meet Walker Estes, a Deaf prison chaplain whose advocacy was shaped by his daughter’s experience of incarceration - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Each snowflake’s unique symmetry is a beautiful illustration of the natural laws that govern all things great and small - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A bicycle seat, a shell and an ice cream, among other things, take the place of an artist’s head in some surreal vignettes - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How Bernini’s dynamic sculptures captured the passionate, theatrical mood of the Baroque era, and made all of Rome a stage - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Solar eclipses are a happy astronomical accident. They were once even more spectacular, and will eventually fade away - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
See the hidden movement in the natural world, thanks to ‘motion extraction’, a filmmaker’s innovative digital effect - by Aeon Video Watch at...
‘They are pure mathematics – they’re like stars’: an experimental sculptor reflects on the lessons he’s learnt from cacti - by Aeon Video...
For its few remaining speakers, the whistled language of the Hmong offers deep connection to the natural and spirit worlds - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Are these triangles propelled by music, or is it a sensory trick? Origami and a heady score create a synaesthetic experience - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Born in Alabama when segregation was still law, Bonnie’s story charts how systemic racism shaped the contours of her life - by Aeon Video Watch at...
For millennia, humans masturbated without shame. How did this pastime become a taboo? And how has it since been reclaimed? - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Digging into the pre-history of atheism, the historian Alec Ryrie finds its roots in medieval incredulity and resentments - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How ancient Hawaiian ways of understanding the natural world led to a scientific breakthrough for managing local waterways - by Aeon Video Watch at...
More than just catchy, Beethoven’s Fifth is a true Romantic masterwork that channelled self-expression and inner turmoil - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Meet Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, two Russian artists whose work subverted both the Soviet state and the US art scene - by Aeon Video Watch at...
To teach a computer how to see, it helps to first understand how humans see (or don’t see) the world around them - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Why is there something instead of nothing? For Henri Bergson, this misguided question leads traditional metaphysics astray - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A palliative care specialist makes a gentle yet powerful case for discussing and understanding how death usually unfolds - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Climb aboard the SSPO Esperanta to imagine the future of space travel on a luxury sightseeing tour of the solar system - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
What can a quantum information theorist say about the certainty of arithmetic and the universality of mathematical truth? - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Through deft editing skills, a filmmaker untangles the web of carelessness and incompetence that led to a disastrous explosion - by Aeon Video Watch...