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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

Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome - by Eric Schwitzgebel Read at Aeon

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world - by Max McGuinness Read at Aeon

‘We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Despite decades of inaction we can avert the climate Hellocene and restore the atmosphere to keep our world habitable - by Rob Jackson Read at Aeon

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith agreed that vanity was all too human. But one saw it as a vice; the other, as a necessity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Nurses experience deep suffering when they can’t act according to their moral compass. Our research shows a way forward - by Cynda Hylton Rushton Read at Aeon

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history - by Inanna Hamati-Ataya Read at Aeon

Returning to the cold case of the disappearing frogs of Costa Rica, a biologist reveals a hard truth about life on Earth - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Praying is a cognitive practice full of problem-solving resources. You can learn from it even if you don’t want to do it - by Eleanor Schille-Hudson Read at Aeon