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Held in the basement of New York’s Swiss Institute, Mona Filleul’s Sissy Institute exhibition is a sensitive ode to the artist’s community the aesthetic codes of smartphones
In Peter Hujar’s Day, Sachs spotlights a long-lost project featuring the era-defining photographer who captured New York’s queer and artistic underground in the 1970s
“Progress” is a broad concept. That’s both a challenge and a strength — especially when you put on a Progress Conference for almost 400 people. The challenge is this: what, exactly, do we all have in ...
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We have been promised a future of effortless mobility, a world of flying cars and autonomous pods whisking us through gleaming cityscapes. But as we sit in gridlocked traffic, that future feels perpet...
In philosophy, physicalism is the idea that everything can be explained in physical terms. Whether through atoms, electrons, quarks, fields, or other physical processes, physicalism holds that every p...
When we look out into deep space, beyond the confines of the Milky Way, we find that the Universe isn’t quite so empty. An enormous variety of galaxies fill the abyss of space: small and large, ...
A couple weeks ago I wandered into a digression about toxic workplaces. Consider this week’s Nightcrawler another small detour into the forgotten value of boredom. Last Saturday, our four-year-old did...
They say the Goatman prowls the woods at night near my home in Maryland. He was once a biologist named Stephen Fletcher at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. That was before the accident wit...
What if we could use automation not just as a tool, but as a mirror for our own human behaviors? From the limits of rationalism to the rise of neural networks, Dan Shipper, CEO and co-founder of...
For nearly all of human history, there was a mystery that showed up, recurrently, on a nearly nightly basis. The Moon, visible during at least some portion of the night except during the once-per-mont...
Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?- by Collin Rice & Kareem KhalifaRead on Aeon
As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?- by Ville LähdeRead on Aeon
Citizens of Myanmar describe what daily life is like in their isolated, war-torn nation- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs- by Prashant GargRead on Aeon
Should deaf parents be able to select for a deaf child? On the ethics of parental choice and ‘designer babies’- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?- by Ana Lucia AraujoRead on Aeon
How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price- by Gilly KahnRead on Aeon
Exoplanet discoveries have reshaped astronomy. Are exomoons next? Brian Greene in conversation with David Kipping- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon