Aeon3d
How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world
How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world ...
Aeon9d
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...
Aeon13d
Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest
Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest ...
Aeon3d
What’s an ancient Greek brick doing in a Sumerian city? An archeological investigation
A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...
Aeon10d
The power of prayer
Praying is a cognitive practice full of problem-solving resources. You can learn from it even if you don’t want to do it ...
Aeon4d
The migrants missing in Mexico, and the mothers who won’t stop searching for them
We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US ...
Aeon12d
We surveyed thousands of scientists in four countries and learned just how important beauty is to them
There is some other type of beauty that is not visual,’ he explained to us in an interview. ‘I’m not sure what it is. Perhaps ...
Aeon6d
Moral resilience
is the Anne and George L Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee ...
Aeon2d
Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome
Imagine a planet on the far side of the galaxy. We will never interact with it. We will never see it. What happens there is irrelevant to us, now and for the conceivable future. What would you hope ...