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Workplace diversity isn’t just about equality – it’s a competitive advantage | Aeon Videos

Workplace diversity isn’t just about equality – it’s a competitive advan…

Imagine alien signals are detected. Here’s what happens next | Aeon Videos

Imagine alien signals are detected. Here’s what happens next | Aeon …

See what no human eyes have seen before, deep in the sea off Western Australia | Aeon Videos

See what no human eyes have seen before, deep in the sea off Wester…

‘Am I not at least something?’ A surreal dive into Descartes’s Meditations | Aeon Videos

‘Am I not at least something?’ A surreal dive into Descartes’s Medi…

A rare glimpse inside a samurai sword workshop, where ritual meets mastery | Aeon Videos

A rare glimpse inside a samurai sword workshop, where ritual me…

One family’s harrowing escape from postwar Vietnam, told in a poignant metaphor | Aeon Videos

One family’s harrowing escape from postwar Vietnam, told in a poigna…

Simple entities in universal harmony – Leibniz’s evocative perspective on reality | Aeon Videos

Simple entities in universal harmony – Leibniz’s evocative per…

A century later, can poetry help us make sense of the First World War’s horrors? | Aeon Videos

A century later, can poetry help us make sense of the First World Wa…

Master cartography and mythical creatures – the world according to the Catalan Atlas | Aeon Videos

Master cartography and mythical creatures – the world according t…

A ‘dumpster archeologist’ reconstructs strangers’ stories via what they’ve discarded | Aeon Videos

A ‘dumpster archeologist’ reconstructs strangers’ stories vi…

To build a fair society, we must first be able to envision it. John Rawls can help | Aeon Videos

To build a fair society, we must first be able to envision it. John Rawls …

In the Dutch lowlands, keeping a windmill running is an act of cultural preservation | Aeon Videos

In the Dutch lowlands, keeping a windmill running is an act of cultu…

Last hominin standing – charting our rise and the fall of our closest relatives | Aeon Videos

Last hominin standing – charting our rise and the fall of our closest …

How multicoloured side-blotched lizards put game theory into evolutionary action | Aeon Videos

How multicoloured side-blotched lizards put game theory into evolu…

Starlings swoosh like brushstrokes across the sky in this dazzling short | Aeon Videos

Starlings swoosh like brushstrokes across the sky in this dazzling sh…

How Hokusai’s Great Wave emerged from Japan’s isolation to become a global icon | Aeon Videos

How Hokusai’s Great Wave emerged from Japan’s isolation to become …

A project takes teens from war-torn regions to schools in Canada | Aeon Videos

A project takes teens from war-torn regions to schools in Canada | Ae…

Albert Camus built a philosophy of humanity on a foundation of absurdity | Aeon Videos

Albert Camus built a philosophy of humanity on a foundation of absu…

Meet the Quaker pacifist who shattered British science’s highest glass ceilings | Aeon Videos

Meet the Quaker pacifist who shattered British science’s highes…

This intricate map of a fruit fly brain could signal a revolution in neuroscience | Aeon Videos

This intricate map of a fruit fly brain could signal a revolution in neuro…

Meet the lucky little organ that is uniquely dedicated to pleasure | Aeon Videos

Meet the lucky little organ that is uniquely dedicated to pleasure | A…

Bigger isn’t better – the renegade ‘Buddhist economics’ of E F Schumacher | Aeon Videos

Bigger isn’t better – the renegade ‘Buddhist economics’ of E F Schu…

The rhythms of rural Thailand, where both food and music are sourced from the ground | Aeon Videos

The rhythms of rural Thailand, where both food and music are so…

A filmmaker responds to Lars von Trier’s call for a new muse with a unique application | Aeon Videos

A filmmaker responds to Lars von Trier’s call for a new muse with a …

Groundbreaking visualisations show how the world of the nucleus gives rise to our own | Aeon Videos

Groundbreaking visualisations show how the world of the nucleu…

The joys and heartbreaks of loving a creature who ages faster than you | Aeon Videos

The joys and heartbreaks of loving a creature who ages faster than yo…

Metaphysics and beyond – Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle’s indelible ideas | Aeon Videos

Metaphysics and beyond – Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle’s indelibl…

The six priestesses who kept the flame of ancient Rome alight at risk of death | Aeon Videos

The six priestesses who kept the flame of ancient Rome alight at ris…

People have been trying to talk with apes for nearly a century. How far have we got? | Aeon Videos

People have been trying to talk with apes for nearly a century. How far …

Peter Singer charts the path from Hegelian philosophy to Marxist revolution | Aeon Videos

Peter Singer charts the path from Hegelian philosophy to Marxist re…

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