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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.
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 Mapreaders and Multitaskers: Men, Women, Nature, Nurture (2016), The Story of Colour (2017) and Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race (2019). He lives in London.
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 health, identity and more.
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 between the words and phrases of one language and another.
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 Western canon and the non-Western world.
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 cosmology.
Essays — Latest - Aeon
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.
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 Watts, had died during the previous night, as a storm lashed his home in Marin County, California.
Science — Biology - 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 cosmology.
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