Turns out that, even when Einstein was wrong, he was kind of right | Aeon Videos
Ever since Albert Einstein supplanted the Newtonian model with his general theory of relativity in 1915,...
Capitalism is modernity’s most beguiling, dangerous enchantment – Eugene McCarraher | Aeon Essays
Far from representing rationality and logic, capitalism is modernity’s most beguiling and dangerous form of enchantmentBy...
What economics look like in resource-rich yet poverty-stricken Madagascar | Aeon Videos
A large island nation off the eastern coast of Africa, Madagascar is at once resource rich,...
Acting changes the brain: it’s how actors get lost in a role – Christian Jarrett | Aeon Ideas
At our English boarding school in the 1990s, my friends and I would spend hours immersed...
Why do we like to visit scary houses that creep us out? – Francis McAndrew | Aeon Essays
A ragged curtain, a creaking attic, a dark cellar – what explains the architecture of creepiness,...
See and hear the human brain as you’ve never experienced it before | Aeon Videos
The Laboratory for NeuroImaging of Coma and Consciousness (NICC) at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston studies the...
Living with ADHD: how I learned to make distraction work for me – Sarah Stein Lubrano | Aeon Ideas
Even today, 20 years after my childhood diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), I am...
A dreamy animated tale of grief, friendship and a road trip to David Hockney’s house | Aeon Videos
'You were too young to lose your mum. And we were too young to be organising...
Ottoman cosmopolitanism and the myth of the sectarian Middle East – Ussama Makdisi | Aeon Essays
European colonisation put an abrupt end to political experiments towards a more equal, diverse and ecumenical...
Do we possess our possessions or do they possess us? – Bruce Hood | Aeon Ideas
In 1859, around 450 passengers on the Royal Charter, returning from the Australian goldmines to Liverpool,...
What can an embodied history of trees teach us about life? – Dalia Nassar & Margaret M Barbour | Aeon Essays
What if, rather than mere props in the background of our lives, trees embody the history...
If you stand in Wittgenstein’s home, will you think like him? – Julian Baggini | Aeon Essays
Visiting Wittgenstein's home evokes the philosopher's serious, ascetic mind (no doubt he would disapprove its restoration)By...
Who is ‘looting’ and who is ‘finding food’? How image gatekeepers shape the news | Aeon Videos
In August 2005, Alysia Burton Steele was just two months into her job as a photo...
How stories of female friendship construct a sense of self – Susan Bright | Aeon Essays
Female friendship is central to much recent fiction and film. What can it say about the...
When a deafblind woman from Denmark met a woman like her in Nepal | Aeon Videos
'I dreamt I was the deafblind woman we visited ... And there was no information, nothing,...
To make laziness work for you, put some effort into it – Neel Burton | Aeon Ideas
We are being lazy if there's something that we ought to do but are reluctant to...
A quantum odyssey from the tip of a pen to the dark side of human knowledge | Aeon Videos
The classic short film Powers of Ten (1977) propelled viewers on a journey from a Chicago...
How we think about beauty and blackness can save lives – Enuma Okoro | Aeon Essays
We need a radical new paradigm for thinking about blackness that recognises beauty's potential to save...