Aeon12h
Two distinct and conflicting forms of nationalism – civic and ethnic – helped create the nation-states of Europe
Two distinct and conflicting forms of nationalism – civic and ethnic – helped create the nation-states of Europe ...
Aeon1d
A ‘dumpster archeologist’ reconstructs strangers’ stories via what they’ve discarded
Follow the ‘dumpster archeologist’ Lew Blink as he pieces together people’s stories from the objects they’ve left behind ...
Aeon2d
An unarmed Indigenous group aims to protect their native lands in this stirring portrait
To complete the perilous project his mother never finished, a filmmaker documents Indigenous resistance in war-torn Colombia ...
Aeon3d
Problem-solving matter
Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process ...
Aeon4d
Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss
Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss ...
Aeon4d
In his poem ‘London’, William Blake crafted a bleak vision of the city he loved
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ William Blake captures the suffering and oppression on the streets of 18th-century London ...