Aeon7h
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...
Aeon3d
We surveyed thousands of scientists in four countries and learned just how important beauty is to them
There is some other type of beauty that is not visual,’ he explained to us in an interview. ‘I’m not sure what it is. Perhaps ...
Aeon4d
Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest
Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest ...
Aeon4d
From Afghanistan to Virginia – the Muslims who fought in the American Civil War
The short documentary series ‘American Muslims: A History Revealed’ features six films that explore the often overlooked ways in which of Muslims and Islam have helped to shape the United States. In ...
Aeon21d
Why history is always political
is associate professor of moral and political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Málaga in Spain. She is the author of Contexts of John Stuart Mill’s Liberalism: Politics ...
Aeon23d
Visit the small Texas community that lives in the shadow of SpaceX launches
Much of the world watched on in wonder and excitement when, on 13 October 2024, a rocket from Elon Musk’s commercial space company SpaceX boosted a spacecraft into orbit and was successfully retrieved ...
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Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth
Metamorphic Lewisian gneiss rock on the coastline of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, formed 1.6-2.6 billion years ago. Photo by Scott Robertson/Getty Images is professor of geosciences and ...
Aeon25d
The British Empire used a great democratic ideal to manufacture racial difference and rationalise colonial domination
is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law, Gender and Media at SOAS University of London, UK. Europe benefitted by the wonderful increase in the amenities of life for the mass of her people ...
Aeon25d
Our world has very different contours when a millimetre is blown up to a full screen
In this entrancing video, the Dutch filmmaker, photographer and artist Michiel de Boer (aka Posy) provides close-ups of a series of square-millimetre surfaces of everyday objects around his home, ...
Aeon28d
We surveyed thousands of scientists in four countries and learned just how important beauty is to them
It was thought that science could tell us about the origins of the Universe. Today that great endeavour is in serious doubt In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that ...
Aeon29d
A frontline soldier’s moving account of the fabled ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914
The famed ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914 occurred some five months after the outbreak of the First World War when widespread, unofficial ceasefires arose on the Western Front on Christmas Eve and Christmas ...