Aeon Magazine
Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense of ourselves and the world. It asks big, existentially significant questions and finds fresh, original answers from leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society, and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich, and expand horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life, free to read and listen.
Episodes
Deskilling the body
We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending.
Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense of ourselves and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psych
Is everything conscious?
If the question makes no sense to you, try spending some time with the principle of sufficient reason.
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The ghetto on the lagoon
Sixteenth-century Venice wanted to expel its Jews but couldn’t do without them. Its compromise was the world’s first ghetto.
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How to assemble science
Humanity produces a staggering amount of new knowledge every day. The question is how to make sense of it all.
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A life in episodes
For a decade, I’ve posted episodes of my memoir to Facebook. My readers correct my understanding of my past.
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Life on a hair trigger
A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates.
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Reason is more than a tool
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more.
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Don’t use the ‘C-word’
A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label.
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Paternity is poetical
The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us.
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Chasing la dolce vita
Homecomings, fantasies, food and ghosts – how the myth of eternal return keeps the Italian diaspora in a state of longing.
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Reasoning together
Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind.
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Where a land ethic blooms
Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours.
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Toadstools and toxins
When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more.
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He was probably right
Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain.
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Cosmic amnesia
A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why?.
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Who will taste the cherries?
The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world.
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The bombarding of childhood
It’s not just screen time: the problem with children’s media is that it has become relentlessly hectic, loud and bright.
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Penchants of the polymaths
The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way.
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Medieval mental health
Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music.
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Our eloquent hands
Physicians reject palmistry as nonsense. But reading the creases of our palms for hidden meaning is what doctors have always done.
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Continental divide
A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed?.
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Upend the trickle-down
Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix.
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Neuroqueering on the lawn
Hans Christian Andersen’s tantrum in Charles Dickens’s garden was a case of ‘too muchness’, emotions bursting past respectability.
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More nothing now
We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity.
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The Singapore strategies
The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus self-sufficiency.
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Beyond food and people
Nietzsche shows us how to embrace our connection with nature – without denying its essential conflict, strife and suffering.
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Empire of flight
They have big brains, long childhoods and sociable, curious minds. So why haven’t birds developed complex culture?.
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The planetary fix
Despite decades of inaction we can avert the climate Hellocene and restore the atmosphere to keep our world habitable.
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The fog of hunger
From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it.
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Dolphins and other lovers
The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous.
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In praise of zealotry
Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why?.
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Worm munch matters
The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them.
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Where did the grandeur go?
Superlative things were done in the past century by marshalling thousands of people in the service of a vision of the future.
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Natural-born existentialists
Ethics cannot be based on human nature because, as evolutionary biology tells us, there is no such thing.
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The neverending house
The self-built homes of Santiago are precarious and ever changing. They are, always and at once, being and becoming.
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Mecca and the mall
In a bid for spiritual renewal, I made a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city. Almost everything I expected to see was gone.
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A second sexual revolution
Until Shere Hite’s Report, even the most daring sexologists refused to listen to what women desired and hated in sex.
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How we meet the future
If we couldn’t make generalisations, we would be paralysed by the world’s complexity. Does that ever excuse stereotyping?.
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Sasquatch science
The hunt for Bigfoot sounds like the opposite of good science, but those pursuing the creature are often serious empiricists.
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Culture clash
C P Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture provoked a savage response from fellow critic F R Leavis. What was at the heart of it all?.
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Towards an AI for Africa
Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life.
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Thucydides the perspicacious
Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all states.
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Resist the technocrats
Through international organisations, they wield power under the pretence of simply following the experts. Don’t believe them.
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How art invented humanity
When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images.
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The light narrows
My father’s death sent me to the jiu-jitsu mat. Then came defeat, low testosterone and the lure of a chemical cheat code.
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The taming of Black thought
Black philosophers now feature on Western curricula, but the European tradition diminishes their radicalism into reassurance.
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Signal then storm
Allan Basbaum has spent 50 years searching the nervous system for the places where pain begins – and where it can be stopped.
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The savage bites back
Rooted in Brazilian modernism, anthropophagy devours and transforms culture, subverting colonial fears of cannibalism.
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The people’s atheist
Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey.
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Beyond Greece and Rome
A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’.
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Transit of wonder
Every 122 years, Venus crosses the Sun as a black and fleeting teardrop, kindling the awe of all those who dare to know.
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Loitering towards war
While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage. Their clash consumed Europe.
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The looting of science fiction
Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future.
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Unmothered
We are each a living story, written with those who raised us. But when my most loving co-author ghosted me, my story fractured.
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Lore of the rings
Trees contain an archive – tales of planetary shifts, cosmic events, historical pivots – that we’re only just unlocking.
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How to offset your brain
From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help.
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‘The emperor is far away’
Ming Dynasty China left us copious texts, but these veil the lives of the vast majority of its people from our view.
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Skill nostalgia
Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work?.
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Abyss
The testimonies of Ukraine’s war widows reveal the mortal risk of love and the possibility of dying while alive: a black pain.
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The anguish of choice
In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains.
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Illegible benefits
The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand.
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The measure of flourishing
Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship Index.
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The violence specialists
Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?.
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Who are the fire-tamers?
From remote farmhouses to oncology clinics, a secret world of French healers works in parallel with conventional medicine.
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No one is self-made
The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion.
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Trauma creep
From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed.
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Words, words, words
Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself.
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What is this rock?
Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology.
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Therapy for billionaires
As my grandfather’s money taught, wealth can be a poison. The rich must reckon with its costs to recover their humanity.
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A philosophy of home
The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think.
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The no-human future
Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon. Nick Land glimpsed something much darker.
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The joy of autism
Yes, we’re in a world of our own: for the autistic mind, it’s a place of intense curiosity, deep focus and sensory delight.
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What shape is the Earth?
The extraordinary challenge of determining the true shape of Earth reveals the deep value of measurement to scientific progress.
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Artist of sympathy and cruelty
Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments.
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Flickering Enlightenment
Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique.
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The embattled witnesses
The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses.
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Can ecosystems malfunction?
We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts.
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Being small
Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace.
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Make immigration boring
The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs.
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Maritime China
Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls.
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