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Curated short documentaries and original Aeon productions exploring big ideas

A large, artificial ice structure in a mountainous landscape with clear blue sky in the background.

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Engineering

Can monumental ‘ice stupas’ help remote Himalayan villages survive?

15 minutes

An older man in a red cap and printed T-shirt looking into the distance.

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Virtues and vices

Why Bennie tried to disappear, and what happened when he was found decades later

16 minutes

Photo of a woman meditating by a fire in a dimly lit room with artwork on the walls and others seated in the background.

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Anthropology

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

30 minutes

A wooden cabin on a grassy hill with a mountainous backdrop and cloudy sky in the distance.

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Knowledge

Why it takes more than a lifetime to truly understand a single meadow

11 minutes

Photo of a silver inflatable balloon floating in the sky over a blurred brownish background, resembling a flying saucer.

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Information and communication

Coverage of the ‘balloon boy’ hoax forms a withering indictment of for-profit news

17 minutes

Children climbing on monkey bars, photographed from below, against a clear blue sky.

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Education

Scenes from a school year paint a refreshingly nuanced portrait of rural America

25 minutes

A person with a prosthetic leg stands in a room filled with plastic-wrapped prosthetics and limbs, showcasing orthopaedic supplies.

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Technology and the self

A filmmaker finds a tactile beauty in the creation of her prosthetic leg

11 minutes

Illustration of a man in a suit, looking down, with a background of indistinct figures in a hallway. The colours are muted, creating a sombre atmosphere.

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Cosmology

The Indian astronomer whose innovative work on black holes was mocked at Cambridge

13 minutes

Peach Twig (Prunus Persica) (1918) by Royal Charles Steadman

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Biology

In 1886, a US agency set out to record new fruit varieties. The results are wondrous

5 minutes

Close-up of tree roots and rocks on a forest floor, covered with moss and surrounded by dense greenery.

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Nature and landscape

Take a serene hike through an ancient forest, inspired by a Miyazaki masterpiece

6 minutes

Person climbing a tall tree using a rope, viewed from the base looking upwards into the canopy of green leaves.

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The environment

Tree-sit with activists as they fight industrial logging from 100 feet above the ground

25 minutes

Person in a hooded coat walking through a labyrinth of stones on a grassy landscape, with ferns and distant hills under an overcast sky.

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Subcultures

Living off-grid on a remote Scottish island is a mix of rejection and acceptance

13 minutes