https://aeon.co/essays/how-virtue-morphs-into-beauty-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder
Beauty is a deeply moral matter that makes kindness, empathy and honesty attractive, while vice warps into ugliness
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https://aeon.co/essays/enter-the-sapiezoic-a-new-aeon-of-self-aware-global-change
Jun 11, 2024 - Humans have been altering Earth for millennia, but only now are we wise to what we’re doing. How will we use that wisdom?
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https://aeon.co/essays/even-the-anthropocene-is-nature-at-work-transforming-itself
Spinoza helps diagnose the bad ideas and sad passions that preclude us from a finer relationship with the natural world
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-place-of-empty-space-in-the-literary-imagination
When a writer stares down a blank page, the whole of literature stares back. Why, then, leave the empty page as it is?
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-earthquakes-that-shook-mexico-citys-sense-of-time?src=longreads
Jan 29, 2026 - Three earthquakes hit Mexico City on the same date in 1985, 2017 and 2022. The coincidence left the city stranded in time
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https://aeon.co/videos/seven-years-on-the-road-finding-utopia-in-the-lives-of-women
How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities
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https://aeon.co/videos/how-crafty-and-deadly-codebreakers-complicate-the-business-of-firefly-love
How crafty and deadly codebreakers complicate the business of firefly love
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-indigenous-faith-that-reveres-its-own-alphabet-as-sacred
Oct 17, 2024 - Pau Cin Hau dreamt of an alphabet for a language that had never been written down. So began the religion of Laipianism
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https://aeon.co/ideas/the-ai-revolution-will-be-led-by-toasters-not-droids
When you think of AI, do you picture a multi-skilled C-3PO droid? A cupboard of appliances might be nearer the mark
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https://aeon.co/videos/the-soul-brotherhood-between-a-son-and-his-caregiving-father
When CoRy developed chronic illnesses as an adult, he moved in with his dad. Through mutual care, their bond has ‘blossomed’
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https://aeon.co/essays/could-chronic-inflammation-be-the-medical-paradigm-shift-of-our-age
Nov 18, 2025 - Acute inflammation helps the body heal. But chronic inflammation is different and could provoke a medical paradigm shift
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-does-exist-and-is-amenable-to-scientific-investigation
Contrary to recent opinion, there is such a thing as the self, and it is empirically amenable to scientific investigation
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https://aeon.co/ideas/attention-is-not-a-resource-but-a-way-of-being-alive-to-the-world?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=atom-feed
When attention is a limited resource, it can run out. Treat it as an experience, and it yields a rich sense of purpose
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-human-world-is-not-more-fragile-now-it-always-has-been
Apr 8, 2021 - Humanity is more technologically powerful than ever before, and yet we feel ourselves to be increasingly fragile. Why?
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https://aeon.co/essays/restoring-respect-is-the-first-step-towards-a-better-society
Economic inequality is an urgent problem. Deeper still is our loss of mutual respect, the foundation of a fair society
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https://aeon.co/videos/the-oglala-sioux-speak-out-from-the-wounded-knee-massacre-to-modern-life
The Oglala Sioux speak out: from the Wounded Knee Massacre to modern life
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https://aeon.co/essays/declared-dead-last-year-the-anthropocene-is-very-much-alive
Nov 6, 2025 - As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?
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https://aeon.co/essays/how-real-magic-happens-when-the-brain-sees-hidden-things
Seeing things that are hidden; failing to see things in plain sight. How magic exploits the everyday weirdness of perception
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https://aeon.co/videos/spiral-into-the-golden-ratio-and-separate-the-myths-from-the-maths
What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea
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https://aeon.co/essays/gunther-anders-a-forgotten-prophet-for-the-21st-century
Aug 8, 2024 - From the ashes of the Second World War, Günther Anders forecast a new catastrophe: technology would overwhelm its creators
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https://aeon.co/essays/should-we-intensively-alter-coral-reefs-so-they-can-survive-the-heat
Jan 13, 2026 - Do the laws and rules that once protected coral reefs now stand in the way of radical interventions that could save them?
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/28/meet-my-basket-the-combini-killer/
Meet My Basket, the rapidly growing chain of outlets the size of a convenience store, but with the selection of a supermarket.
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https://tapas.io/episode/3662275
Read After the Journey and more premium Action fantasy Community series now on Tapas!
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https://aeon.co/essays/science-is-not-the-only-form-of-knowledge-but-it-is-the-best
Science is not the only form of knowledge but it is the best, being the most successful epistemic enterprise in history
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-many-realities-of-ayahuasca-from-rural-peru-to-urban-china
Nov 25, 2025 - From Peruvian healers battling sorcerers to Chinese executives seeking financial success, ayahuasca’s power shifts across worlds
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https://aeon.co/videos/the-urban-commute-reimagined-as-a-rhythmic-subterranean-ritual?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=758df8c7c6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-758df8c7c6-69379705
The urban commute reimagined as a rhythmic subterranean ritual
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https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-p-factor-says-about-the-root-of-all-mental-illness
The p-factor is the dark matter of psychiatry: an invisible, unifying force that might lie behind a multitude of mental disorders
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https://aeon.co/essays/what-s-it-all-for-is-a-question-that-belongs-in-the-past
Jun 14, 2024 - Science can’t stop talking in terms of ‘purposes’, but if the universe cares about us, it has a funny way of showing it
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-conversation-about-american-torture-is-400-years-old
For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism
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https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-europe-become-the-richest-part-of-the-world?utm_source=pocket_discover
In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How?
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https://aeon.co/videos/meet-the-jazz-pianist-who-improvises-in-tandem-with-a-piano-that-plays-itself
Meet the jazz pianist who improvises in tandem with a piano that plays itself
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https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-we-do-to-save-the-universe-from-certain-death
It is only a matter of time before our Universe goes black, cold and dies. Must this be the end of the road for life?
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https://aeon.co/videos/the-school-where-children-make-the-rules-and-learn-what-they-want-to-learn
The school where children make the rules and learn what they want to learn
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https://aeon.co/essays/a-biography-of-the-penis-in-the-animal-kingdom
Boned, spined, spiked, corkscrewed or double-headed: why did so much variety arise when a simple tube would do?
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https://aeon.co/essays/if-that-was-the-end-of-the-world-what-s-coming-up-next
Oct 1, 2021 - We’re still here, which means we have a vacancy for an apocalypse scenario. The one we choose could be revealing
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https://aeon.co/essays/it-is-not-democratic-to-go-to-war-without-the-peoples-consent
Nov 21, 2025 - The gravest of all decisions, to go to war, happens without the consent of the people. This is a great flaw in democracy
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https://aeon.co/videos/how-keeping-a-craft-tradition-alive-can-bring-a-500-year-old-city-into-the-future
How keeping a craft tradition alive can bring a 500-year-old city into the future
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https://aeon.co/videos/what-is-it-to-be-bayesian-the-pretty-simple-math-modelling-behind-a-big-data-buzzword
What is it to be Bayesian? The (pretty simple) math modelling behind a Big Data buzzword
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https://aeon.co/videos/is-the-office-cubicle-actually-designed-to-crush-your-soul?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8a114bbdda-Daily_newsletter_Wednesday_30th_Dec12_22_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-8a114bbdda-68771077
Is the office cubicle actually designed to crush your soul?
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-hidden-costs-of-masking-for-women-with-adhd-and-autism
Nov 14, 2025 - People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price
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https://mobfactory.blogspot.com/
Thoughts on MUD development, ideas, and future directions from the creator of the Alter Aeon RPG.
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https://aeon.co/videos/far-from-the-studio-craftsmen-hammer-ballet-shoes-with-their-own-rough-grace
Far from the studio, craftsmen hammer ballet shoes with their own rough grace
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https://birdsheaven.com/tears-of-the-aeon-the-gothic-war-by-r-f-pina/
May 10, 2024 - In the crucible of history, where the flames of empires clash, and the destinies of civilizations are forged, there exists a chapter often overlooked—a tale...
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https://isnedu.org/en/nagano-campus/nagano-milky-way-our-visit-to-aeon-big-learning-how-they-care-for-the-environment-sept-1st-5th/
This week, our class had the wonderful opportunity to v
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https://aeon.co/essays/way-down-south-slavery-far-beyond-the-united-states
Dec 10, 2025 - Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?
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https://aeon.co/ideas/why-bureaucrats-matter-in-the-fight-to-preserve-the-rule-of-law
Do we value our political rights enough to defend the modern state bureaucracy against charismatic leaders?
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