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Today, the ancient Greek storyteller would be winning Oscars. To learn how, turn to the Poetics, his masterwork on writing - by Philip Freeman Read at Aeon

How the US architect and artist James Wines ‘put art where you least expect to find it’ – in big-box stores design - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Some psychotherapeutic approaches are not only ineffective, they’re actively harmful. We’re now starting to identify them - by Yevgeny Botanov, Alexander Williams & John Sakaluk Read at Aeon

An electric circuit, a salt solution and a wooden board demonstrate how electricity ignites, in this mini fireworks show - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

From the ashes of the Second World War, Günther Anders forecast a new catastrophe: technology would overwhelm its creators - by Audrey Borowski Read at Aeon

How Kurt Gödel used the paradox ‘This statement cannot be proved’ to shatter the notion of total certainty in mathematics - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

How did the planet replace the nation-state to become the prime political object of the 21st century? - by Erik Isberg Read at Aeon

Hope is usually seen as a positive agent of change that spares us from pain. But it can also undermine healing and growth - by Santiago Delboy Read at Aeon

‘You are such an interesting conversation.’ Pádraig Ó Tuama’s tender poem is a guide to being comfortable in one’s own company - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Metaphysical debates in quantum physics don’t get at ‘truth’ – they’re nothing but a form of ritual, activity and culture - by Timothy Andersen Read at Aeon

The Jewish woman who turned away from God thanks to ‘the Google’, finding atheism – and bacon – only in her later years - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California - by Suzanne Cope Read at Aeon

‘Make sure you come back alive’: the last days at home with his grandfather before Artem, 18, leaves to fight for Ukraine - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

A golden generation of French philosophers dismantled truth and other traditional ideas. What next for their successors? - by Peter Salmon Read at Aeon

The feminist academic who heard the call of the forgotten women of surrealism and went on a mindbending trip to find them - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

In a tight spot, you’d probably intuit that a human life outweighs an animal’s. There are good arguments why that’s wrong - by Jeff Sebo Read at Aeon

View the Universe in terms of processes, not objects, and you’ll see improvements in science, public policy and relationships - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

To understand why early cities thrived, look not to the temples of kings but to their subjects’ bustling neighbourhoods - by Michael E Smith Read at Aeon

How the deep neural network that can restore, date and place ancient texts is working to fill in the blanks of history - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Last year 200 million children did not get enough to eat, yet it would be cheap and easy for the world to feed them all - by Sharman Apt Russell Read at Aeon

Love is both a wonderful thing and a cunning evolutionary trick to control us. A dangerous cocktail in the wrong hands - by Anna Machin Read at Aeon

Street dogs in the ancient Turkish city of Kars roam free, fight and and occasionally join in the humans’ call to prayer - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Why we need to stop thinking about parents, offspring and sex when we try to understand how life reproduces itself - by Gunnar O Babcock Read at Aeon

The story of China’s one-child policy is told by felt puppets with fabricated memories in this acclaimed short animation - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon