News from Aeon

Two variants of a Hindu myth come alive in an animated ode to Indian storytelling | Aeon Videos

The commodified childhood – scenes from two sisters’ lives in the creator economy | Aeon Videos

There’s a dirty side to clean energy in the metal-rich mountains of South Africa | Aeon Videos

The passage of time is a peculiar thing in a 24-hour diner | Aeon Videos

Background music was the radical invention of a trailblazing composer | Aeon Videos

For an Amazonian female shaman, ayahuasca ceremonies are a rite and a business | Aeon Videos

‘Save the parasites’ may not be a popular rallying cry – but it could be a vital one | Aeon Videos

A filmmaker responds to Lars von Trier’s call for a new muse with a unique application | Aeon Videos

Why large language models are mysterious – even to their creators | Aeon Videos

Havana’s streets become racetracks in this exhilarating portrait of children at play | Aeon Videos

Through rituals of prayer, a monk cultivates a quietly radical concept of freedom | Aeon Videos

The many ways a lizard tongue sticks, grasps, pinches and plops – in slo-mo | Aeon Videos

‘To my old master’ – a freed slave answers the request to return to his old plantation | Aeon Videos

A ceramicist puts her own bawdy spin on the folk language of pottery | Aeon Videos

AEON announces strategic partnership with Viction

Villagers struggle to keep their beloved, endangered ape population afloat | Aeon Videos

Radical doodles – how ‘exquisite corpse’ games embodied the Surrealist movement | Aeon Videos

Why Susan listens to recordings of herself speaking a language she no longer remembers | Aeon Videos

Plato saw little value in privacy. How do his ideas hold up in the information age? | Aeon Videos

‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph | Aeon Videos