Inside Pompeii
We may know Pompeii for its destruction, but this intricate 3D rendering brings to life what a bustling city it once was - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
Conservation’s prejudice
Ecology is pervaded by a nativist dogma against invasive species that distorts the science and undermines wildness - by Carlos Santana Read on Aeon
Going-against-the-grainers
If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention? - by Dane Leigh Gogoshin Read on Aeon
If I told it: an imperfect portrait of ChatGPT
Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Books and screens
Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time - by Carlo Iacono Read on Aeon
Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s time travels
Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Mexistentialism
The Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures the true vulnerability of our existence - by Carlos Alberto Sánchez Read on Aeon
Snow line
How do you teach a child reverence for nature? This filmmaker takes his son on a search for the ever-changing snow line - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The snowball effect
Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth - by Graham Shields Read on Aeon
Guarding the guardians
Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work? - by Julien Lie-Panis Read on Aeon
Stephen and David’s toy cupboard
David’s handcrafted figurines pay tribute to cultural icons. His latest project takes on his greatest hero, his late brother - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Subverting hell
In their visions of the underworld Dante and Milton were truly subversive, incorporating predecessors into their own repudiation - by Charlie Ericson Read on Aeon
Desi oon
A jaunty song calls for greater appreciation of Indian wool, as imports undermine the livelihoods of local herders - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Compost modernity!
The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms - by Yogi Hale Hendlin Read on Aeon
Carlo Rovelli: thermal time
Is time a property of the Universe? Yes, if you conceive of it as heat: a mind-boggling yet oddly comforting perspective - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Orcas and ourselves
Sea pandas or sadistic killers? These enigmatic creatures invite contradictory labels that say far more about us than them - by Jason Colby Read on Aeon
How selfish are we?
An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition - by Jonathan R Goodman Read on Aeon
Africa’s cultural landmarks: Tsodilo Hills, Botswana
Rising far above the desert, the walls of these magnificent hills carry the ancient story of humanity’s creative spark - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Between being and emptiness
In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature - by Takeshi Morisato Read on Aeon
Landholder vs stockholder
In 1752, David Hume discerned that wealth was becoming untethered from land. Here lies the origin of our political divisions - by Catherine Nichols Read on Aeon
