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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

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33:53

A life in episodes

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/10/05

For a decade, I’ve posted episodes of my memoir to Facebook. My readers correct my understanding of my past.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

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25:01

Life on a hair trigger

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/10/02

A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates.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

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24:12

Reason is more than a tool

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/10/01

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more.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

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29:53

Don’t use the ‘C-word’

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/29

A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label.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

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24:52

Paternity is poetical

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/28

The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us.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

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23:38

Chasing la dolce vita

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/26

Homecomings, fantasies, food and ghosts – how the myth of eternal return keeps the Italian diaspora in a state of longing.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

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21:32

Reasoning together

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/25

Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind. 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

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28:56

Where a land ethic blooms

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/24

Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours.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

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27:34

Toadstools and toxins

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/22

When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more.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

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22:14

He was probably right

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/21

Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain.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

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20:01

Cosmic amnesia

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/18

A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why?.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

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19:28

Who will taste the cherries?

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/17

The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world.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

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18:38

The bombarding of childhood

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/14

It’s not just screen time: the problem with children’s media is that it has become relentlessly hectic, loud and bright.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

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22:52

Penchants of the polymaths

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/11

The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way.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

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28:53

Medieval mental health

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/10

Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music.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

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21:55

Our eloquent hands

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/08

Physicians reject palmistry as nonsense. But reading the creases of our palms for hidden meaning is what doctors have always done.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

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26:24

Continental divide

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/07

A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed?. 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

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21:27

Upend the trickle-down

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/04

Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix.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

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22:12

Neuroqueering on the lawn

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/03

Hans Christian Andersen’s tantrum in Charles Dickens’s garden was a case of ‘too muchness’, emotions bursting past respectability.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

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18:21

More nothing now

Aeon Magazine ·

2026/09/01

We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity.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

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