Aeon2d
Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise
Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise ...
Aeon5d
My leap across the chasm
After years of debate and contemplation, I’ve come to think a heretical form of Christianity might be true. Here’s why ...
Aeon6d
Clock time contra lived time
Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right?
Aeon4d
There are fragments of Romani Gypsy history all over the UK – if one knows where to look
A walk through the English countryside reveals tangible yet long-overlooked traces of a nomadic culture’s long presence ...
Aeon3d
A puppeteer makes sense of an overwhelming world by shrinking it down to size
The way that the Canadian puppeteer Ronnie Burkett tells it, it was an aimless, fortuitous dive into the ‘P’ volume of an encyclopaedia as a child that led him to his life’s work. Produced on the ...