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Hills and mountains
A girl’s story of forced marriage reveals how the Soviet invasion of 1979 transformed life in Afghanistan- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
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The physics of getting fired
Physics offered me a sense of order and purpose. But when life got messy I realised it had a much deeper insight to give- by Zahaan BharmalR
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The Amarna letters
Petty disputes, pleas for help and requests for gold – explore letters sent to Egyptian pharaohs more than 3,000 years ago- by Aeon VideoWat
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Love with nowhere to go
Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves- by Derek van ZoonenRea
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Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti
A very modern conception of womanhood: in the Jazz Age paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, women were bold, free and stylish- by Aeon VideoWatc
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How to build real peace
From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can- by Azize AslanRead on
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Traction!
Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars- by Jennifer R
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Bhutan: the last place
What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999?- by Aeon VideoWatch on
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Other people
Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally- by Elizabeth O
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When it started to burn
Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians- by Aeon VideoWatch o
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How intuitions work
Just as seeing a tree gives you reason to believe it’s there, sensing that a stranger is creepy gives you reason to walk away- by Marc A Mof
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A vocabulary for the future: nature
For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric- by Aeon VideoWa
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Horrible, unmanly, indispensable
Renaissance Italians saw the gun as the Devil’s work. But soon they embraced this unchivalrous – and necessary – weapon- by Catherine Fletch
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How to be a (Roman) man
Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination- by Catharine Edwar
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The secrets of Hohle Fels cave
Why aren’t we all Neanderthals? These ancient bird figurines suggest that art was essential to our evolutionary success- by Aeon VideoWatch
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The ladder of knowledge
What we claim as ‘true’ is not a ceiling we are forever failing to reach but something that changes as we climb toward it- by Alexander V Gh
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Into the fire
These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq- by Aeon Video
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Deskilling the body
We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending- by Melanie ChallengerRead on Aeon
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Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs of Buganda kings
Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda- by Aeon VideoWatch
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Is everything conscious?
If the question makes no sense to you, try spending some time with the principle of sufficient reason- by Sam Kimpton-NyeRead on Aeon
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Barbara Ward’s vision
She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planetary goals- by Or RosenboimRead
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Evolution of Manhattan
From Lenape land to sprawling metropolis, this detailed timelapse animation captures the making of Manhattan- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
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The ghetto on the lagoon
Sixteenth-century Venice wanted to expel its Jews but couldn’t do without them. Its compromise was the world’s first ghetto- by Alexander Le
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I won’t remain alone
In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others?- by Aeon VideoWatch
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