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What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016) (aeon.co)

765 points by raattgift over 2 years ago | 396 comments
Moths in slow motion [video] (aeon.co)

661 points by Tomte almost 3 years ago | 120 comments
Ant Geopolitics (aeon.co)

279 points by romaintailhurat 7 months ago | 87 comments
Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? (aeon.co)

233 points by cmrdporcupine over 3 years ago | 146 comments
Last hours of an organ donor (aeon.co)

189 points by Hooke 4 months ago | 135 comments
Two women recall coming of age in Victorian London (1970) [video] (aeon.co)

178 points by samclemens almost 2 years ago | 98 comments
Who owns history? How historical footage is hidden and monetised [video] (aeon.co)

176 points by gmays over 1 year ago | 67 comments
There’s no planet B (aeon.co)

163 points by nsoonhui over 1 year ago | 236 comments
For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness (aeon.co)

148 points by ALee over 3 years ago | 74 comments
Keju, China’s difficult civil service test (aeon.co)

146 points by laurex 11 months ago | 90 comments
The horrors of Pompeii (aeon.co)

138 points by diodorus about 1 year ago | 114 comments
We are not empty: The concept of the atomic void is a mistake (aeon.co)

136 points by drdee about 1 year ago | 145 comments
Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists? (aeon.co)

119 points by smarm over 2 years ago | 120 comments
What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017) (aeon.co)

116 points by sakopov about 3 years ago | 48 comments
Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable? (aeon.co)

115 points by optimalsolver over 3 years ago | 150 comments
My grandfather Paul Tillich, the unbelieving theologian (aeon.co)

110 points by rbanffy 6 months ago | 193 comments
Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death (aeon.co)

106 points by Hooke 9 months ago | 172 comments
Evolution is not a tree of life but a fuzzy network (aeon.co)

100 points by ALee over 2 years ago | 33 comments
Insects become airborne, slowed down to a speed the human eye can appreciate (aeon.co)

100 points by gmays about 2 years ago | 6 comments
Einstein and Hume’s philosophy of time (aeon.co)

100 points by pseudolus over 3 years ago | 38 comments
Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans arrived in the Americas (aeon.co)

97 points by HR01 over 1 year ago | 144 comments
Questions about the hard limits of human intelligence (aeon.co)

97 points by ColinWright about 2 years ago | 83 comments
On knowing who he was (aeon.co)

97 points by Towaway69 8 months ago | 77 comments
Against longtermism (2021) (aeon.co)

96 points by jlpcsl over 1 year ago | 235 comments
Corruption Has Shaped History. Why Do We Still Ignore It? (aeon.co)

95 points by pseudolus over 2 years ago | 114 comments
The geometry of other people (aeon.co)

90 points by Petiver 8 months ago | 4 comments
What complexity science says about what makes a winning team (2020) (aeon.co)

90 points by gHeadphone over 3 years ago | 14 comments
Our tools shape our selves (aeon.co)

90 points by lermontov 6 months ago | 76 comments
The new architecture wars (aeon.co)

89 points by tintinnabula 8 months ago | 65 comments
What is it like to be a crab? (aeon.co)

87 points by drdee 10 months ago | 75 comments
All Those Naked Greeks (aeon.co)

87 points by diodorus over 1 year ago | 62 comments
How did Europe become the richest part of the world? (aeon.co)

87 points by elorant over 2 years ago | 272 comments
1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research (aeon.co)

86 points by PaulHoule over 1 year ago | 24 comments
Why are so many adults acting just like children? (aeon.co)

86 points by loudtdarrow almost 2 years ago | 133 comments
Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan script? (aeon.co)

85 points by Tomte over 2 years ago | 30 comments
Hegel Today (aeon.co)

85 points by hooboy almost 3 years ago | 49 comments
Typos, tricks and misprints (aeon.co)

84 points by erehweb about 3 years ago | 34 comments
The American Aristotle (aeon.co)

84 points by overwhelm almost 3 years ago | 30 comments
Our language, our world (aeon.co)

82 points by Vigier 8 months ago | 48 comments
On the dangers of seeing human minds as predictive machines (aeon.co)

82 points by dangerman over 3 years ago | 165 comments
Tomorrow people: For a century, it felt like telepathy was around the corner (aeon.co)

82 points by Caiero 3 months ago | 228 comments
Who Was Duns Scotus? (aeon.co)

79 points by drdee about 1 year ago | 49 comments
Imaginary numbers are real (aeon.co)

76 points by Hooke about 2 years ago | 131 comments
The James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our moral universe (aeon.co)

72 points by apollinaire over 1 year ago | 77 comments
Cashless Sucks (aeon.co)

70 points by t0bia_s 10 months ago | 67 comments
Philosophy is an art (aeon.co)

68 points by drdee 5 months ago | 85 comments
Exploring the nature of genius (aeon.co)

64 points by acconrad over 3 years ago | 79 comments
The mythos of leadership (aeon.co)

64 points by pepys 8 months ago | 63 comments
The Search for Alien Tech (aeon.co)

63 points by the-mitr almost 3 years ago | 32 comments
The Invention of Free Love (aeon.co)

60 points by pepys almost 2 years ago | 56 comments
The Posthuman Dog (aeon.co)

60 points by bryanrasmussen almost 3 years ago | 33 comments
A singular scientist: James Lovelock (aeon.co)

59 points by Schroedingers2c almost 2 years ago | 13 comments
The Road from Rome (aeon.co)

59 points by imartin2k over 3 years ago | 37 comments
For natural theologians, proving God was beside the point (aeon.co)

59 points by Tomte about 2 years ago | 123 comments
The Mystic Art of Gardening (aeon.co)

58 points by prismatic 11 months ago | 11 comments
The worldly turn: A return to economics that studies the real world (aeon.co)

58 points by galaxyLogic over 2 years ago | 28 comments
Calculate but don’t shut up (aeon.co)

58 points by Petiver over 2 years ago | 24 comments
The woman behind Strindberg's Miss Julie and her male alter ego (aeon.co)

58 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | 51 comments
Why strive? Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's letter on the threat of AI [video] (aeon.co)

57 points by pluc 8 months ago | 85 comments
Beneath the surface of Bach’s music is a world of numerology and cunning craft (aeon.co)

57 points by Stratoscope about 3 years ago | 27 comments
Whither philosophy? (aeon.co)

55 points by apollinaire 11 months ago | 185 comments
The swing has a near-universal history of ritual transgression (aeon.co)

55 points by Thevet over 1 year ago | 58 comments
Vergil’s secret message (aeon.co)

55 points by diodorus 12 months ago | 13 comments
What Animals Think of Death (aeon.co)

55 points by pseudolus over 2 years ago | 20 comments
16th century European artists shifted their focus from power to peasants [video] (aeon.co)

52 points by webmaven about 1 year ago | 22 comments
The Wisdom of Surrender: Samuel Beckett and Quietism (aeon.co)

52 points by vo2maxer over 3 years ago | 19 comments
William Blake's Four-Fold Imagination (2020) (aeon.co)

51 points by hkhn over 3 years ago | 8 comments
How Vulnerable Is the World? (aeon.co)

51 points by Leonan over 3 years ago | 63 comments
The idea that life on Earth originated elsewhere is not as far out as it seems (aeon.co)

50 points by the-mitr over 1 year ago | 65 comments
Elections are flawed -it’s time to start choosing our representatives by lottery (aeon.co)

50 points by hamiltonians almost 3 years ago | 38 comments