Aeon | a world of ideas
WEBHow researchers finally solved the puzzle of the oldest known map of the world. 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.
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WEBTender, yet creepy. Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss. Tishani Doshi. The latest and most popular Essays from Aeon. Longform articles on philosophy, psychology, science, society, history and the arts, written by the world’s leading thinkers.
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WEBPsychology Essays from Aeon. World-leading psychologists, neuroscientists and science writers explore topics from personality to neurodiversity, consciousness and altered states to mental health, identity and more.
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WEBPhilosophy 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 Western canon and the non-Western world.
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WEBScience 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 cosmology.
Society — Latest - Aeon
WEBFalling for suburbia. Modernists and historians alike loathed the millions of new houses built in interwar Britain. But their owners loved them. Michael Gilson. Society Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore big ideas from history, politics, economics, sociology, philosophy, archaeology and anthropology, and more.
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WEBThe popular Essays and Videos from Aeon. Longform articles written by the world’s leading thinkers and curated short documentaries exploring big ideas.
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WEBAbout. Launched in 2012, Aeon’s mission is to explore and communicate knowledge that helps 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, psychology, society and culture.
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WEBAn artist grapples with the loss of his brother, and the problem of canine abduction. Psychology Essays from Aeon. World-leading psychologists, neuroscientists and science writers explore topics from personality to neurodiversity, consciousness and altered states to mental health, identity and more.
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WEBPhilosophy 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 Western canon and the non-Western world.