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    Curated short documentaries and original Aeon productions exploring big ideas
    Abstract illustration of a woman holding hands with a child, walking down a path, surrounded by colourful shapes.

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    Philosophy of mind

    Caring for the vulnerable opens gateways to our richest, deepest brain states

    7 minutes

    Illustration of a man with grey hair and arms crossed in front of full bookshelves.

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    Cosmology

    Building ‘bigger and better’ has pushed cosmology forward. Can it take it any further?

    7 minutes

    Illustrated portrait of a smiling woman with long hair, standing in front of a tree with purple flowers in a grassy landscape.

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    Cognition and intelligence

    How a ‘periodic table’ of animal intelligence could help to root out human bias

    5 minutes

    Illustrated portrait of a man in a hoodie with short hair who is Anil Seth, in front of a window with a view of rooftops, antennas and a tree.

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    Philosophy of mind

    Anil Seth on why our senses are fine-tuned for utility, not for ‘reality’

    10 minutes

    Illustration of four pregnant women dancing around a red fire with a red female fertility figure above them, set against a beige background.

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    Anthropology

    Abundance has made fat an enemy, but it’s been a friend to humans for millennia

    4 minutes

    Illustration of two stylised figures in blue patterned dresses holding hands and dancing against an orange textured background.

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    Dance and theatre

    Dance seems to be the ultimate frivolity. How did it become a human necessity?

    4 minutes

    Collage artwork combining a colourful costumed figure, vintage car, and distorted buildings, against a backdrop of geometric shapes.

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    History of ideas

    Splitting the truth: the philosopher that physics forgot

    4 minutes

    Painting of ancient sailors rowing a ship, with Odysseus tied to the mast, and two sirens, one reaching out, another singing.

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    Self-improvement

    Why preparation, not willpower, is the key to mastering self-restraint

    5 minutes

    Illustration of two men pointing at a moonlit landscape through a colourful, oval-shaped window surrounded by abstract shapes.

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    History of ideas

    Sex, religion and envy – how Freud and Jung’s frenetic friendship tore itself apart

    4 minutes

    Black-and-white photo of a man hanging from a large clock on a building above a city street with traffic and buildings.

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    Cognition and intelligence

    For millennia, we’d never seen anything like film cuts. How do we process them so easily?

    7 minutes

    A person standing next to a damaged car in a desert landscape under a dramatic sky, suggesting a post-apocalyptic scene.

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    Film and visual culture

    Why do we crave the awful futures of apocalyptic fiction?

    5 minutes

    Watercolour painting of a man in a blue suit on a grey background with text “IN SIGHT Morten Kringelbach” on the right.

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    Pleasure and pain

    A happy life is built on pleasures such as sex and food, but also company and variety

    7 minutes