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Green tree ants are famous in the tropics
In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy- by Aeon VideoWatch
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Reason is more than a tool
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more- by Sasha MuddRead on Ae
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Passportless mess
A fool, a genius, or ‘a man who destroys everything’? Piecing together Zoran, a mythic figure of Belgrade- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
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Don’t use the ‘C-word’
A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label- by Matthew R Cooperbe
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Affect theory
In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead- by Aeon VideoWatch
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Paternity is poetical
The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us- by Daniel SwiftRead on
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Reasoning together
Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind- by Emilie Prattic
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Britain’s last great airship
The remarkable engineering and tragic demise of the vessel that would end Britain’s dream to dominate the skies- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
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Where a land ethic blooms
Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours- by Craig MaierRea
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How the West was fun
Be it movie mythos or nostalgia for a ‘simpler’ time, there’s an undeniable allure in stepping into the American West- by Aeon VideoWatch on
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Toadstools and toxins
When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more- by Eric Le
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Sound guardians
As Indonesia builds a new capital city, the race is on to preserve the sounds of the rainforest before they vanish forever- by Aeon VideoWat
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He was probably right
Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain- by Massimo Pi
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Cosmic amnesia
A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why?- by Richard DyerRead
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Animal eye
Probing the biology, beauty and mystery of animal eyes, this short poetic documentary explores an alien world- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
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Who will taste the cherries?
The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world- by Liam SpradlinR
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The meaning of fake marble
From ancient Roman frescoes to modern kitchen benchtops, our desire to recreate marble is about more than cutting costs- by Aeon VideoWatch
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Chasing la dolce vita
Homecomings, fantasies, food and ghosts – how the myth of eternal return keeps the Italian diaspora in a state of longing- by Ben FacciniRea
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Once upon a screen: explosive paradox
Decades after seeing ‘Platoon’, Kevin recalls how the film stirred generational trauma in his family and racism at school- by Aeon VideoWatc
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The bombarding of childhood
It’s not just screen time: the problem with children’s media is that it has become relentlessly hectic, loud and bright- by Natalia Kucirkov
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Penchants of the polymaths
The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way- by Mariam S
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The Chinese room
Can we test for AI consciousness when we don’t understand our own? Getting into John Searle’s ‘Chinese room’ experiment- by Aeon VideoWatch
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Medieval mental health
Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music- by Katherine HarveyRead on Aeon
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Making revisions
Indigenous knowledge and art overwrite colonial cartography to correct the historical record in Central Australia- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeo
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