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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.
For over a century, telepathy has been just around the corner - Aeon
Jun 3, 2024 · By 1978, the US had ramped up funding, leading to a secret army unit called Project Stargate, based at Fort Meade, Maryland, which brought together diverse avenues of experimental ‘psy-op’ research – psychological operations involving psychic projection, mind control and remote manipulation of unknowing operatives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why main character syndrome is philosophically dangerous | Aeon …
Sep 27, 2024 · Driving on one of New York’s poorly maintained and crowded roads, I found myself in a situation one can more safely observe through numerous YouTube ‘bad driver’ videos: a driver for whom all other traffic apparently ceased to exist confidently pulled into a lane I already happened to occupy.
Culture — Latest - Aeon
Culture Essays from Aeon on topics that animate human cultures, from stories and literature to rituals and celebrations, art and architecture to our relationship with the natural world.
What should Econ 101 courses teach students today? - Aeon
Jun 7, 2024 · What happens to the job market when the government raises the minimum wage? For decades, higher education in the United States has taught economics students to answer this question by reasoning from first principles.
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.