Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world's most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
Does language mirror the mind? An intellectual history - Aeon
Jan 15, 2024 · Anyone who has learned a second language will have made an exhilarating (and yet somehow unsettling) discovery: there is never a one-to-one correspondence in meaning …
Science — Latest - Aeon
Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to …
Why the son of God story is built on mythology, not history - Aeon
Feb 15, 2024 · Gavin Evans. is a writer whose work has been published in The Guardian, Die Zeit, The Conversation and The New Internationalist, among others.His books include …
Culture — Latest - Aeon
Culture Essays from Aeon on topics that animate human cultures, from stories and literature to rituals and celebrations, art and architecture to our relationship with the natural world.
Psychology — Latest - Aeon
Psychology Essays from Aeon. World-leading psychologists, neuroscientists and science writers explore topics from personality to neurodiversity, consciousness and altered states to mental …
How Alan Watts re-imagined religion, desire and life itself - Aeon
Jan 26, 2024 · On 16 November 1973, Joan Watts received a phone call that began in the worst possible way: ‘Are you sitting down?’ Her father, the English writer and philosopher Alan …
Philosophy — Latest - Aeon
Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the …
A history of the modern Islamic movement that is Salafism - Aeon
Oct 16, 2023 · Praying in shoes The Sunni movement of Salafism was born at the beginning of the 20th century, with the goal of modelling life on the 7th. by Aaron Rock-Singer + BIO
There’s a deeper problem hiding beneath global warming - Aeon
Jun 8, 2023 · Even if we ‘solve’ global warming, we face an older, slower problem. Waste heat could radically alter Earth’s future