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A rare female scholar of the Roman Empire, Hypatia lived and died as a secular voice | Aeon Videos

Why did our ancestors make startling art in dark, firelit caves? | Aeon Essays

What Thucydides really thought about historical analogies | Aeon Essays

Philosophy Is an Art

The history of astronomy is a history of conjuring intelligent life where it isn’t | Aeon Videos

The unique life philosophy of Abdi, born in Somalia, living in the Netherlands | Aeon Videos

How to reduce the ethical dangers of AI-assisted farming | Aeon Essays

What’s this buzz about bees having culture? Inside a groundbreaking experiment | Aeon Videos

‘If you’re creative, why can’t you create a solution?’ One artist’s imaginative activism | Aeon Videos

Are the exact words of a language arbitrary or necessary? | Aeon Essays

How close are we to creating artificial intelligence? | Aeon Essays

The future of humanism, from Toni Morrison to Nick Bostrom | Aeon Essays

Our language, our world

Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death | Aeon Essays

From the pseudo to the forger: the value of faked philosophy | Aeon Essays

More than argument, logic is the very structure of reality | Aeon Essays

An individual cannot be ‘captured’ in a photograph | Aeon Essays

Why we must seize leisurely interludes from work’s confines | Aeon Essays

Alien life might not be something science can ever discover

Dystonia plagues musicians and has no easy remedies | Aeon Essays

What Kant can teach us about work: on the problem with jobs | Aeon Essays

We are not empty: The concept of the atomic void is a mistake

How to ease the seemingly endless pain of prolonged grief | Aeon Essays

The case for polycrisis as a keyword of our interconnected times | Aeon Essays