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Aeonby Aeon Video12h ago
A Vocabulary for the Future is a series by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in which notable thinkers reflect on a word of their choosing and are paired with filmmakers who give...
Aeonby Eliran Arazi12h ago
Listen to this essay 41 minute listen ‘A nasty one, the dolphin,’ Derode grumbled when he returned home, trading the humid heat of an Amazonian afternoon for the cool, sheltered interior.
59%plop scoreAeonby Aeon Video1d ago
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is so named for its unique and plentiful petrified wood, formed from conifer trees that lived there some 225 million years ago.
Aeonby Geertje Bol2d ago
Listen to this essay 25 minute listen In 1706, an English woman visited her friend, Katherine. Katherine’s husband, Francis Atterbury, was a prominent politician and bishop.
59%plop scoreAeonby Aeon Video3d ago
This short documentary is an oddly endearing portrait of Torrington, a hamlet in Alberta, Canada, and the institution at its heart: the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum.
Aeonby Ella Browning3d ago
Listen to this essay 22 minute listen Earthworms do not have a discernible mouth, a means to make sound, or ears, and most spend their lives burrowing below ground, eating soil and decaying organic...
59%plop scoreAeonby Consuelo Araos6d ago
Listen to this essay 24 minute listen Few problems feel more pressing today than housing. Across the world, access to affordable, stable, dignified housing has become one of the defining challenges...
60%plop scoreAeonby Aeon Video7d ago
Star Axis is an artwork of extraordinary ambition. For half a century, the US land artist Charles Ross has been building this ‘granite pyramid’ in a remote stretch of desert in New Mexico.
Aeonby Azania Imtiaz Patel7d ago
Listen to this essay 20 minute listen It is Ramadan, the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, and I am sitting in a rooftop café in Mecca, the holiest city of the religion.
61%plop scoreAeonby Aeon Video8d ago
For his celebrated short documentary Bouncy Brothers, the US director Nicholas J Santore chronicled his uncle Anthony Glazier’s pursuit of the American dream – that deeply entrenched national...
Aeonby Rosa Campbell9d ago
Listen to this essay 28 minute listen In 1972, Shere Hite, a Playboy model turned feminist sex researcher, jumped on a motorbike and drove around Manhattan.
60%plop scoreAeonby Aeon Video10d ago
This video essay from the YouTube channel Kings and Things explores the intricate history and unique architecture of what’s widely considered to be the oldest surviving Buddhist temple in Europe...
Aeonby Tom Ralston10d ago
Listen to this essay 23 minute listen Overgeneralising has a bad rap. It seems an obvious, if understandable, mistake to generalise beyond what our evidence supports.
59%plop scoreAeonby Aeon Video14d ago
Located west of Paris, La Défense is often called the most beautiful business district in Europe.
49%plop scoreAeonby Sam Dresser14d ago
Listen to this essay 34 minute listen When Charles Percy Snow rose to deliver the Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge in 1959, he had good reason to be satisfied with himself.
57%plop scoreAeonby Aeon Video15d ago
The Icelandic writer and environmental activist Andri Snær Magnason traces both his love of storytelling and his concern for the natural world back to his grandparents.
Aeonby Fainos Mangena16d ago
Listen to this essay 17 minute listen Imagine someone in Harare, Zimbabwe, turning to a large language model (LLM) for life advice, as many increasingly do: ‘I’ve been offered a promotion with a...
58%plop scoreAeonby Aeon Video17d ago
For the widely exhibited US artist Ani Liu, the body is a site of mystery and data in equal measure.
Aeonby David Polansky & Daniel Schillinger17d ago
Listen to this essay 22 minute listen It’s almost never a good sign when Thucydides is in the news.
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