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How to write a Hollywood blockbuster, with Aristotle’s Poetics | Aeon Essays
Today, the ancient Greek storyteller would be winning Oscars. To learn how, turn to the Poetics,...
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Why a sculptor pivoted from gallery installations to big-box stores design | Aeon Videos
How the US architect and artist James Wines ‘put art where you least expect to find...
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Psychotherapy is meant to help. But what about when it harms? | Aeon Essays
Some psychotherapeutic approaches are not only ineffective, they’re actively harmful. We’re now starting to identify them...
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Spectacular fractal patterns emerge when electricity meets a wooden surface | Aeon Videos
An electric circuit, a salt solution and a wooden board demonstrate how electricity ignites, in this...
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Günther Anders, a forgotten prophet for the 21st century? | Aeon Essays
From the ashes of the Second World War, Günther Anders forecast a new catastrophe: technology would...
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How a verbal paradox shattered the notion of total certainty in mathematics | Aeon Videos
How Kurt Gödel used the paradox ‘This statement cannot be proved’ to shatter the notion of...
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How the planet became the prime political entity of our century | Aeon Essays
How did the planet replace the nation-state to become the prime political object of the 21st...
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When clinging to old hopes gets in the way of healing and growth | Aeon Essays
Hope is usually seen as a positive agent of change that spares us from pain. But...
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A tender poem doubles as a guide to sitting comfortably in one’s own company | Aeon Videos
‘You are such an interesting conversation.’ Pádraig Ó Tuama’s tender poem is a guide to being...
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How Wittgenstein might ‘solve’ both philosophy and quantum physics | Aeon Essays
Metaphysical debates in quantum physics don’t get at ‘truth’ – they’re nothing but a form of...
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How a God-fearing Jewish woman found atheism – and bacon – in her later years | Aeon Videos
The Jewish woman who turned away from God thanks to ‘the Google’, finding atheism – and...
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The Black Panthers fed more hungry kids than the state of California | Aeon Essays
It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids...
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Before he leaves to go to war, Artem, 18, says goodbye to the man who raised him | Aeon Videos
‘Make sure you come back alive’: the last days at home with his grandfather before Artem,...
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After Jacques Derrida, what’s next for French philosophy? | Aeon Essays
A golden generation of French philosophers dismantled truth and other traditional ideas. What next for their...
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A mindbending trip that summons the forgotten women of surrealism | Aeon Videos
The feminist academic who heard the call of the forgotten women of surrealism and went on...
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Human exceptionalism is a danger to all, human and nonhuman | Aeon Essays
In a tight spot, you’d probably intuit that a human life outweighs an animal’s. There are...
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To see the Universe more clearly, think in terms of processes, not objects | Aeon Videos
View the Universe in terms of processes, not objects, and you’ll see improvements in science, public...
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Life in early cities: on neighbourhoods and energised crowding | Aeon Essays
To understand why early cities thrived, look not to the temples of kings but to their...
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How machine learning can help historians decode ancient inscriptions | Aeon Videos
How the deep neural network that can restore, date and place ancient texts is working to...
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How we could end child hunger by making different choices | Aeon Essays
Last year 200 million children did not get enough to eat, yet it would be cheap...
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Love is both wonderful and a dangerous evolutionary trick | Aeon Essays
Love is both a wonderful thing and a cunning evolutionary trick to control us. A dangerous...
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What an ancient Turkish city looks like from the perspective of its stray dogs | Aeon Videos
Street dogs in the ancient Turkish city of Kars roam free, fight and and occasionally join...
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We need to stop thinking about sex when it comes to reproduction | Aeon Essays
Why we need to stop thinking about parents, offspring and sex when we try to understand...
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A son of China’s former one-child policy remembers the sibling he never had | Aeon Videos
The story of China’s one-child policy is told by felt puppets with fabricated memories in this...