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The violence specialists

Jun 26, 202619 min

Who are the fire-tamers?

Jun 25, 202630 min

No one is self-made

Jun 22, 202626 min

Trauma creep

Jun 19, 202629 min

Words, words, words

Jun 18, 202623 min

What is this rock?

Jun 16, 202617 min

Therapy for billionaires

Jun 15, 202631 min

A philosophy of home

Jun 12, 202624 min

The no-human future

Jun 11, 202642 min

The joy of autism

Jun 9, 202620 min

What shape is the Earth?

Jun 8, 202621 min

Artist of sympathy and cruelty

May 29, 202620 min

Flickering Enlightenment

May 28, 202633 min

The embattled witnesses

May 26, 202626 min

Can ecosystems malfunction?

May 25, 202637 min

Being small

May 22, 202628 min

Make immigration boring

May 21, 202617 min

Maritime China

May 19, 202624 min

Mathematics is out there

May 18, 202627 min

Gen Z but two centuries ago

May 15, 202619 min

Rights require money

May 14, 202626 min

Beneath our human shallows

May 12, 202620 min

Children are apprentices

May 11, 202631 min

The eye in your pocket

May 8, 202619 min

The origins of Indians

May 7, 202636 min

Embrace the edge!

May 5, 202620 min

Reality emerges

May 4, 202626 min

To be is to participate

May 1, 202621 min

The Ethiopian running secret

Apr 30, 202620 min

Hunting ‘Man the Hunter’

Apr 28, 202621 min

The Black executioner

Apr 27, 202622 min

White-collar sweatshops

Apr 25, 202632 min

Does reading do us any good?

Apr 24, 202629 min

No nature without fear

Apr 23, 202630 min

Justice is geometric

Apr 21, 202623 min

Fuel for thought

Apr 20, 202621 min

The invention of the soul

Apr 17, 202625 min

Join the dots

Apr 16, 202614 min

You’ve lived this life before

Apr 14, 202621 min

The sterilisation-seekers

Apr 13, 202622 min

Patterns without desires

Apr 10, 202627 min

Living without my self

Apr 7, 202620 min

The antibiotic trap

Apr 6, 202628 min

Playing in flatland

Apr 4, 202630 min

When trauma becomes trope

Humanitarian journalism is a moral calling to document human suffering. But in practice, it’s an ethically murky undertaking. 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, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Apr 3, 202626 min

The house is a work of art

Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief. 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, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Apr 2, 202628 min

Banking beyond the law

A centuries-old network of secret codes and shadowy brokers continues to outpace financial systems controlled by the state. 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, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Mar 31, 202622 min

The hypercurious mind

ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information. 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, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Mar 30, 202627 min

Medieval moons

Some saw the Moon as representing creation, yearning for the Divine, some saw the Moon as almost Divine herself. 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, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Mar 29, 202621 min

Sleep is delicious

The idea that we should reduce sleep to an efficient minimum in our lives gets something fundamentally wrong. 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, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Mar 28, 202621 min