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‘Will you send us our wages for the time that we served you?’ A freed slave answers his old master’s request to come back - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors - by Ellie Robson Read at Aeon

A ceramicist puts a playful twist on Italian Renaissance pottery with dirty jokes, emojis and colourful commentary on menopause - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

By understanding the pernicious myths surrounding poverty, we can make progress towards a lofty goal: dignity for all - by Anirudh Krishna & Dirk Philipsen Read at Aeon

Humans are both the gravest threat and the greatest hope for the survival of the rare hoolock gibbons in northeast India - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Moral panics about erotica have coursed through the country’s history. Why do so many Americans think of porn as harm? - by Rebecca L Davis Read at Aeon

A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical creativity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting - by Peter Harrison Read at Aeon

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

More than any other conflict, Israel/Palestine has provoked extraordinarily fervent emotion throughout the world. Why? - by Derek Jonathan Penslar Read at Aeon

Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in the Amazon basin tell us - by Ben Daitz Read at Aeon

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine - by Faith Lawrence Read at Aeon

A filmmaker collaborates with a murmuration of starlings to create spellbinding visuals at the intersection of science and art - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities - by Richard Smyth Read at Aeon

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the phonograph - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

The case of Mexico shows that, despite a proliferating discourse that it is over, neoliberalism is as relentless as ever - by Inés Escobar González Read at Aeon

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe - by Vanessa A Seifert Read at Aeon

An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

How Pentecostalism’s prosperity gospel replaced Catholic liberation theology in Latin American life - by Elle Hardy Read at Aeon

Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum, part work of art, and wholly individual - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

For twenty years, I was a practising psychotherapist. Today I believe it has no foundation in science and often causes harm - by Niklas Serning Read at Aeon

What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about the world, or a need to dominate it? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself - by Hannah H Kim Read at Aeon