An ode to the rotifer – how these microscopic creatures live, die and dry out, entering a peculiar state somewhere in between By Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Deep brain stimulation not only treats psychiatric disease – it changes the whole person, boosting confidence and openness By Julian Kiverstein, Erik Rietveld & Damiaan Denys Read at Aeon
Shoddy filmmaking, stiff acting, clinical dialogue – yes! The cult thrill of a 1960s police training film for a sudden birth By Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Our crisis of public knowledge is an ethical crisis. Rewarding ‘truthfulness’ above ‘truth’ is a step towards a solution By Richard V Reeves Read at Aeon
Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration. We just need to mine those valuable resources – and duck a direct hit By Martin Elvis Read at Aeon
Some infinities are bigger than others – to understand why, you’ll need to check in to the odd world of the Hilbert Hotel By Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Mead, so radical about gender and sex in her early work, doubled down on the differences between men and women later. Why? By Elesha J Coffman Read at Aeon
With their buzzes, clanks and whirrs, the rhythms of prison life form a meditation on conformity and freedom By Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Everyone on the planet has a stake in making investment more ethical. What’s new is that they have the power to do so too By Ellen Quigley Read at Aeon
How a ‘periodic table’ of animal cognition could help us get past our biases when assessing the minds of nonhuman beings By Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
It’s become a commonplace that demographic anxiety is driving white voters to the far Right. This is dangerously wrong By Mark R Reiff Read at Aeon
White supremacists fetishise ancient Rome – but antiquity was more diverse and polychromatic than racists will admit By Jamie Mackay Read at Aeon
An environmental activist living off-grid in an English forest faces her toughest challenge yet – a new primary school By Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Truth, knowledge, justice – to understand how our loftiest abstractions earn their keep, trace them to their practical origins By Matthieu Queloz Read at Aeon
Roads, bridges, tunnels and trains form a grand, urban circulatory system in time-lapse footage of New York City By Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Feminists who see police and prisons as their natural allies are entrenching the sexism and racism they claim to oppose By Aya Gruber Read at Aeon
How the world of emotions differs for people with aphantasia, who are unable to visualise images in their mind’s eye By Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
George Berkeley was a visionary immaterialist. And a philosopher whose views on subordination to God legitimised slavery By Tom Jones Read at Aeon
The so-called ‘Mozart effect’ is a case study in how research can get distorted and overstated in the public imagination By Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
European ideas of African illiteracy are persistent, prejudiced and, as the story of Libyc script shows, entirely wrong By D Vance Smith Read at Aeon