Perhaps the most famous work by the poet Robert Frost, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ (1923) exemplifies his style with its vivid scenery ... Show more
How Robert Frost summoned a classic from life’s timeless moments | Aeon Videos
How Robert Frost summoned a classic from life’s timeless moments | Aeon Videos
Since Plato, a dominant strain of Western philosophy has understood human beings primarily as rational thinkers. But in 1927 ... Show more
I am, therefore I think – how Heidegger radically reframed being | Aeon Videos
I am, therefore I think – how Heidegger radically reframed being | Aeon Videos
‘I hate living in this open wound: grieving a brother who lives a 15-minute drive away and a father who forgets more of himself every day’
In this Turning ... Show more
The long goodbye
The long goodbye
Decolonise political thought: Africa’s alternatives to liberalism: Liberalism hasn’t delivered on its promises in Africa. The alternative will be found in ideas ...
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The fascinating Itiner-e project aims to build the world’s most detailed map of Roman roads, with its dataset currently covering some 300,000 kilometres ... Show more
Explore the vast road network that made the Roman Empire possible | Aeon Videos
Explore the vast road network that made the Roman Empire possible | Aeon Videos
How ‘scientific motherhood’ polices and subjugates women: ‘Scientific motherhood’ promised to create high standards for child-rearing. But it’s really a system ...
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Why are we curious about some things and indifferent to others?: Many of us crave trivial details while ignoring much of the world around us ...
psyche.co/ideas/why-are-we-curious-about-some-things-and-indifferent-to-others
Loafing around at Rikers: What making – and breaking – bread in jail taught me about work and friendship
psyche.co/turning-points/what-i-learned-from-baking-and-breaking-bread-in-prison
Love without jealousy: consider the benefits of compersion: Why we should understand jealousy as nothing more than a vice that ought to be replaced by the new ...
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‘You were too young to lose your mum. And we were too young to be organising a funeral.’
When her friend’s mother died, the UK filmmaker Alice Dunseath and ... Show more
A dreamy animated tale of grief, friendship and a road trip to David Hockney’s house | Aeon Videos
A dreamy animated tale of grief, friendship and a road trip to David Hockney’s house | Aeon Videos
‘I’m left breathless when I face the abyss’ – a stirring portrait of the Mexican cliff divers who leap 100 feet into the sea. Watch it here: The Mexican cliff divers who take dazzling leaps into the unknown | Aeon Videos
What Hannah Arendt proposed as an alternative to authenticity: In her final unfinished work, Hannah Arendt mounted an incisive critique of the idea that we are ...
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Since the 1930s, the La Quebrada Cliff Divers of Acapulco have performed shows for the public, climbing steep and jagged oceanside cliffs and jumping almost ... Show more
The Mexican cliff divers who take dazzling leaps into the unknown | Aeon Videos
The Mexican cliff divers who take dazzling leaps into the unknown | Aeon Videos
Aeon is a magazine of ideas, publishing incisive and ambitious thinking from around the world. Join more than 270,000 others and sign up to our free weekly ... Show more
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Aeon newsletter | Aeon
We’ve all seen that moths, and many other night-flying insects, are irresistibly drawn to our lamps. Yet, for something so universal ... Show more
Do we finally understand why winged insects seem drawn to light? | Aeon Videos
Do we finally understand why winged insects seem drawn to light? | Aeon Videos
Sleep is not just a physical need but a delicious pleasure: The idea that we should reduce sleep to an efficient minimum in our lives gets something ...
aeon.co/essays/sleep-is-not-just-a-physical-need-but-a-delicious-pleasure
Why some healthy habits still take so much effort: Contrary to classic habit science, certain behaviours never become easy. Recognising this can help you stick ...
psyche.co/ideas/why-some-healthy-habits-still-take-so-much-effort
The wilderness fetish is bad for people and for the planet: Nature conservation is still obsessed with the pristine. It needs to learn to love this mongrel world
aeon.co/essays/the-wilderness-fetish-is-bad-for-people-and-for-the-planet
What the Moon meant to medieval Christian and Islamic authors: Some saw the Moon as representing creation, yearning for the Divine, some saw the Moon as almost ...
aeon.co/essays/what-the-moon-meant-to-medieval-christian-and-islamic-authors
The Batammariba people’s traditional dwellings, known as ‘takienta’, located in Koutammakou on the Togo-Benin border, have been considered ‘a work of art ... Show more
Inside the remarkable, endangered mud castles of West Africa | Aeon Videos
Inside the remarkable, endangered mud castles of West Africa | Aeon Videos
I hurt therefore I am: a new approach to our shared vulnerability: We should be able to acknowledge that disabilities can cause pain and suffering without ...
aeon.co/essays/i-hurt-therefore-i-am-a-new-approach-to-our-shared-vulnerability
The existential balm of seeing yourself as a verb, not a noun: In the therapy room, I’ve seen how rethinking what we are – and what it means to ‘be dead’ – can ...
psyche.co/ideas/the-existential-balm-of-seeing-yourself-as-a-verb-not-a-noun
In conditions of scarcity, elephants (like humans) don’t play nice: Elephant families are matriarchal, inclusive and caring. But when environmental scarcity hits ...
aeon.co/essays/in-conditions-of-scarcity-elephants-like-humans-dont-play-nice
The art of hiking: The desert acted as a mirror that seemed to say: you are like me – harsh, inventive, and full of life
psyche.co/turning-points/true-resilience-means-being-one-with-the-wild-not-defeating-it
Black holes may be hiding something that changes everything: We know that black holes are strange, but they could be hiding something even weirder beyond their ...
aeon.co/essays/black-holes-may-be-hiding-something-that-changes-everything
Erica Berry Answers the Orion Questionnaire - Orion Magazine: In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.
orionmagazine.org/article/erica-berry-answers-the-orion-questionnaire/
Sex, life and Oscar Wilde: ‘rarely pure and never simple’: Oscar Wilde is an icon of gay liberation from secrecy. But his life and his sexuality were not so ...
aeon.co/essays/sex-life-and-oscar-wilde-rarely-pure-and-never-simple
How to be the archivist of your own family: By curating your family’s stories, rituals and relics, you’ll feel anchored – and create a bridge between the ...
psyche.co/guides/how-to-be-the-archivist-of-your-familys-stories-and-relics
In ‘Papers’, the artist Yoshinao Satoh assembles thousands of newspaper images into a transfixing animation with Japanese characters, moon phases, Go games ... Show more
Japanese news clippings from 1991 blur into a hypnotic collage | Aeon Videos
Japanese news clippings from 1991 blur into a hypnotic collage | Aeon Videos
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think: Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life ...
aeon.co/essays/why-you-need-your-whole-body-from-head-to-toes-to-think
How to paint with sound, by a virtuoso classical guitarist: In the hands of a great musician, the gloriously simple guitar can create the most complex works of ...
aeon.co/essays/how-to-paint-with-sound-by-a-virtuoso-classical-guitarist
Nearly one in four US adults provides unpaid care for a relative or friend because of ageing, illness or disability – a responsibility that can place a heavy ... Show more
The ‘soul brotherhood’ between a son and his caregiving father | Aeon Videos
The ‘soul brotherhood’ between a son and his caregiving father | Aeon Videos
A psalm for lost spaces: You have to sit down somewhere, unhurried and unbothered, to really hear yourself. But where?
psyche.co/turning-points/everyone-needs-a-place-to-sit-and-simply-hear-themselves-think
How to stop your life playing on repeat: Those frustrating patterns you keep experiencing might be because of your schemas – and there’s a therapy that can help
psyche.co/guides/how-to-use-schema-therapy-to-stop-life-playing-on-repeat
‘Your house is not where your heart’s at.’
Irish Travellers are an Indigenous ethnic minority of Ireland with roots stretching back centuries ... Show more
Nomadic life is a warm, poignant memory for many Irish Travellers | Aeon Videos
Nomadic life is a warm, poignant memory for many Irish Travellers | Aeon Videos
Should we act morally towards trees? Empedocles says yes: Who belongs to our moral community? The Greek philosopher Empedocles had an answer: all life ...
aeon.co/essays/should-we-act-morally-towards-trees-empedocles-says-yes
The many realities of ayahuasca, from rural Peru to urban China: From Peruvian healers battling sorcerers to Chinese executives seeking financial success ...
aeon.co/essays/the-many-realities-of-ayahuasca-from-rural-peru-to-urban-china
Join us for an evening celebrating literature, brought vividly to life by three exceptional performers. Matthew Horsley is a master of the uilleann pipes ... Show more
The meaning of reading — Brunswick Ballroom, December 10 | Sophia Club
The meaning of reading — Brunswick Ballroom, December 10 | Sophia Club
What is love to you? An artist focuses on the hands and gestures of his subjects as they reflect on this boundless question. 🫶 Watch the full film here: What people’s hand gestures reveal when they’re asked about love | Aeon Videos
Since the first exoplanet discovery in 1992, astronomers have confirmed over 6,000 planets beyond our solar system, and the count keeps climbing ... Show more
Why exomoons could be astronomy’s next big breakthrough | Aeon Videos
Why exomoons could be astronomy’s next big breakthrough | Aeon Videos
Philosophical theories are like good stories: Margaret Macdonald | Aeon Essays: For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories ...
aeon.co/essays/philosophical-theories-are-like-good-stories-margaret-macdonald
The cycling of phosphorus is the basis for all life on Earth: This life-giving element, stored in rock and organic material, moves around Earth in an ancient ...
aeon.co/essays/the-cycling-of-phosphorus-is-the-basis-for-all-life-on-earth
What do people’s hand gestures reveal when they’re asked about love?
In ‘Angles of Love’, the UK-based artist and demographic scientist Vincent Straub asks ... Show more
What people’s hand gestures reveal when they’re asked about love | Aeon Videos
What people’s hand gestures reveal when they’re asked about love | Aeon Videos
The Ozempic era should change how we think about self-control: Struggling to manage weight can seem like a failure of raw willpower. GLP-1 drugs highlight how ...
psyche.co/ideas/the-ozempic-era-should-change-how-we-think-about-self-control
The story of the captives transported on the HMS Beagle with Darwin | Aeon Videos
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How to deal with doubts about your therapist: It’s not wrong to wonder whether your therapist is helping – it could be a useful signal. Here’s what to do next
psyche.co/guides/what-should-you-do-if-you-have-doubts-about-your-therapist
Could chronic inflammation be the medical paradigm shift of our age?: Acute inflammation helps the body heal. But chronic inflammation is different and could ...
aeon.co/essays/could-chronic-inflammation-be-the-medical-paradigm-shift-of-our-age
Victorian diary-writers kicked off our age of self-optimisation: Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often ...
aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary-writers-kicked-off-our-age-of-self-optimisation
Today, the ability to choose certain genetic traits has, in many cases, become a reality through preimplantation genetic diagnosis ... Show more
When, if ever, is selecting a ‘designer baby’ ethical? | Aeon Videos
When, if ever, is selecting a ‘designer baby’ ethical? | Aeon Videos
There’s nothing like being transported to imaginative worlds by another person’s writing, but it’s harder and harder to read undistracted by digital pressures ... Show more
Sophia Club | Live Philosophy
Sophia Club | Live Philosophy
In Southwestern China, a filmmaker follows her father on a search for his childhood home, reshaped by history and time. Cheng visits his hometown, awash in the tides of history and time | Aeon Videos
The hidden costs of masking for women with ADHD and autism | Aeon Essays: People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included ...
aeon.co/essays/the-hidden-costs-of-masking-for-women-with-adhd-and-autism
Way down south: slavery far beyond the United States | Aeon Essays: Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States ...
aeon.co/essays/way-down-south-slavery-far-beyond-the-united-states
For Justine Kurland, utopia is never a destination but a practice – a way of reimagining inherited worlds. In this video by the Museum of Modern Art ... Show more
Seven years on the road, finding utopia in the lives of women | Aeon Videos
Seven years on the road, finding utopia in the lives of women | Aeon Videos
In ‘The Other Side of the Mountain’, the Chinese filmmaker Yumeng He melds personal and national history with breathtaking cinematography to capture her father ... Show more
Cheng visits his hometown, awash in the tides of history and time | Aeon Videos
Cheng visits his hometown, awash in the tides of history and time | Aeon Videos
Today’s complex climate models aren’t equivalent to reality | Aeon Essays: The immense complexity of the climate makes it impossible to model accurately ...
aeon.co/essays/todays-complex-climate-models-arent-equivalent-to-reality
How to use chatbots to make you smarter, not dumber: Use AI thoughtlessly and it dulls your mind. But with a strategic approach and the right prompts ...
psyche.co/guides/how-to-use-chatbots-to-make-you-smarter-not-dumber
An ant is drowning: here’s how to decide if you should save it | Aeon Essays: Should we simply assume that all animals can feel pain and are of moral concern? Or ...
aeon.co/essays/an-ant-is-drowning-heres-how-to-decide-if-you-should-save-it
At the turn of the 20th century, two Swedish sisters – Ingeborg and Gunborg Elfving – dreamt of an existence free from male oppression and requested that a ... Show more
Can young and old coexist at a feminist co-living residence? | Aeon Videos
Can young and old coexist at a feminist co-living residence? | Aeon Videos
The world can learn from South Africa’s ideal of nonracial democracy | Aeon Essays
aeon.co/essays/the-world-can-learn-from-south-africas-ideal-of-nonracial-democracy
Can AI tell us anything meaningful about Bob Dylan’s songs? | Aeon Essays: Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor ...
aeon.co/essays/can-ai-tell-us-anything-meaningful-about-bob-dylans-songs
Declared dead last year, the Anthropocene is very much alive | Aeon Essays: As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to ...
aeon.co/essays/declared-dead-last-year-the-anthropocene-is-very-much-alive
Guilty pleasures are more than just giving in to temptation: Psychologists are discovering what’s going on when you do something you enjoy ...
psyche.co/ideas/guilty-pleasures-are-more-than-just-giving-in-to-temptation
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?: A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
economist.com/business/2025/11/06/should-facial-analysis-help-determine-whom-companies-hire
Paid articlePaywallLet the mystery be: As a hospital chaplain, I watched lives end, faiths fracture and certainties crumble. My job was holding hands in the dark
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In this film, journalists speak with four unnamed citizens of Myanmar, providing a glimpse into how culture, daily life and political instability intersect in ... Show more
A glimpse of daily life for people in isolated, war-torn Myanmar | Aeon Videos
A glimpse of daily life for people in isolated, war-torn Myanmar | Aeon Videos
The virtual reality (VR) industry is currently in its infancy, but in just a few decades it’s possible that virtual environments will be nearly ... Show more
New realities are imminent: how VR reframes big questions in philosophy | Aeon Videos
New realities are imminent: how VR reframes big questions in philosophy | Aeon Videos
Experiments in resistance: When I tested people’s blood after a protest, I discovered that science itself could be a form of dissent
psyche.co/turning-points/how-i-discovered-that-science-itself-could-be-a-form-of-dissent
The tender and inspiring short documentary ‘Between Moon Tides’ by Jason Jaacks follows members of the Saltmarsh Sparrow Research Initiative in Rhode Island ... Show more
Racing rising tides, volunteers work to save a bird on the brink | Aeon Videos
Racing rising tides, volunteers work to save a bird on the brink | Aeon Videos
In the late 1800s alien ‘engineers’ altered our world forever | Aeon Essays: Images of vast ‘canals’ rippling across the red planet inspired fears of alien ...
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Science needs disagreement. What makes some disagreement useless? | Aeon Essays: Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and ...
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