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What began as a conversation among a handful of artists has grown into a decentralized creative action, spanning more than 600 events across the country.
I Wool Survive featured pieces made with wool from the world’s “first flock of gay sheep.”
From the disruptive nonsense of Santacon to Kwame Brathwaite’s “Black is Beautiful” movement, here’s what to see or stream.
In this week’s art news, 15 women artists over 40 get their due, Robbie Williams tries furniture design, and more.
We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is considered a threat to society.
This week: pothole mosaics, mosque demolitions in India, Yazidi cultural reclamation, remembering Alice Wong, vocal fry, “American Gothic” drag, and much more.
“Progress” is a broad concept. That’s both a challenge and a strength — especially when you put on a Progress Conference for almost 400 people. The challenge is this: what, exactly, do we all have in ...
Exploring the people and ideas driving humanity forward.
We have been promised a future of effortless mobility, a world of flying cars and autonomous pods whisking us through gleaming cityscapes. But as we sit in gridlocked traffic, that future feels perpet...
In philosophy, physicalism is the idea that everything can be explained in physical terms. Whether through atoms, electrons, quarks, fields, or other physical processes, physicalism holds that every p...
When we look out into deep space, beyond the confines of the Milky Way, we find that the Universe isn’t quite so empty. An enormous variety of galaxies fill the abyss of space: small and large, ...
A couple weeks ago I wandered into a digression about toxic workplaces. Consider this week’s Nightcrawler another small detour into the forgotten value of boredom. Last Saturday, our four-year-old did...
They say the Goatman prowls the woods at night near my home in Maryland. He was once a biologist named Stephen Fletcher at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. That was before the accident wit...
What if we could use automation not just as a tool, but as a mirror for our own human behaviors? From the limits of rationalism to the rise of neural networks, Dan Shipper, CEO and co-founder of...
For nearly all of human history, there was a mystery that showed up, recurrently, on a nearly nightly basis. The Moon, visible during at least some portion of the night except during the once-per-mont...
Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?- by Collin Rice & Kareem KhalifaRead on Aeon
As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?- by Ville LähdeRead on Aeon
Citizens of Myanmar describe what daily life is like in their isolated, war-torn nation- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs- by Prashant GargRead on Aeon
Should deaf parents be able to select for a deaf child? On the ethics of parental choice and ‘designer babies’- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon