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It takes psychological flexibility to thrive with chronic illness – Joseph Trunzo | Aeon Essays

How the Many-Worlds Theory of Hugh Everett Split the Universe

Civilisational collapse has a bright past – but a dark future

What Albert Einstein Owes to David Hume’s Notion of Time

Is ‘pink for girls and blue for boys’ biology or conditioning? – Gina Rippon | Aeon Essays

How ergodicity reimagines economics for the benefit of us all – Mark Buchanan | Aeon Ideas

Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser – David Robson | Aeon Ideas

To imagine our own extinction is to be able to answer for it – Thomas Moynihan | Aeon Essays

Extremophiles and life in the most unlikely of places – David P Barash | Aeon Essays

From 20,000 miles up, our home planet is a hypnotic swirl of the familiar and the sublime | Aeon Videos

There really is no natural or right way to be a parent – Olga Mecking | Aeon Essays

Why Epicurean ideas suit the challenges of modern secular life – Temma Ehrenfeld | Aeon Ideas

The dancing species: how moving together in time helped make us human

Philosophy should care about the filthy, excessive and unclean

Musical marble machine

Frozen for millennia, an ancient Greek soldier is freed to charge into battle once again | Aeon Videos

Meet the jazz pianist who improvises in tandem with a piano that plays itself | Aeon Videos

Colonialism as mitosis – the rise and fall of empires, rendered as cell division | Aeon Videos

The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology – Christian Jarrett | Aeon Ideas

Children learn best when engaged in the living world, not on screens