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When scientific pursuits are subject to human shortcomings: the Indian scientist made to wait 50 years for his Nobel Prize - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Victoria Benedictsson assumed a male identity, achieved literary stardom, and took her own life. Then Strindberg stole it - by Elisabeth Åsbrink Read at Aeon

How Rick Lowe transformed the idea of ‘art as an object’ into ‘art as a process’ to build and revitalise his Houston community - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

To understand the terrifying futures unleashed by nuclear weapons, we urgently need to return to the deep past - by Maria Stavrinaki Read at Aeon

‘You prefer to dine at some nobody’s house!’ How an ancient Roman responded to the deep sting of being snubbed - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Under the guise of empowerment and freedom, politicians and business are offloading lifethreatening risk to individuals - by Suzanne Schneider Read at Aeon

Niccolò Machiavelli’s profound insights about the violent origins of political societies help us understand the world today - by David Polansky Read at Aeon

Selfishness is an enduring part of the human condition. For Iris Murdoch, the antidote is to decentre oneself from the world - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

‘We’re both caught up in the music’: A hunter tries to understand his place in the cycle of living – and dying – things - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest - by Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias Read at Aeon

A father seeks to heal his community and find his granddaughter, after his son’s terrorist attack on Paris in November 2015 - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Humans have a strong impulse to see things that are arbitrary or conventional as natural and essential – especially language - by Reuben Cohn-Gordon Read at Aeon

When we discovered that the brain contained a map of the body it revolutionised neuroscience. But it’s time for an update - by Moheb Costandi Read at Aeon

It wasn’t aliens, but the first interstellar object found in our solar system still has much to teach us about the cosmos - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Girls are still in a bad bargain with patriarchy: the price of relationship is keeping their true thoughts to themselves - by Carol Gilligan Read at Aeon

How a playful experiment, motivated by scientists’ curiosity, could have novel applications in the realm of quantum optics - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Vinayak Savarkar ridiculed Gandhi, preaching that anti-Muslim violence was the only means to unite India into a nation - by Mihir Dalal Read at Aeon

How medieval Christianity met humanist philosophy in Botticelli’s masterful Renaissance painting ‘The Birth of Venus’ - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Both folktales and formal philosophy unsettle us into thinking anew about our cherished values and views of the world - by Abigail Tulenko Read at Aeon

Science must become attuned to the subtle conversations that pervade all life, from the primordial to the present - by David Waltner-Toews Read at Aeon

The making of a revolution – the exciting history of the CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough, from the two women who did it - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable - by Monica Westin Read at Aeon

‘It was a Boy Scout camp, and I was far from a Boy Scout’ – shadow puppetry illuminates a skater kid’s unforgettable summer - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

As the crisis of democracy deepens, we must return to liberalism’s revolutionary and egalitarian roots - by Matthew McManus Read at Aeon