Penchants of the polymaths
By Aeon Ideas · 1 day ago
The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way - by Mariam Sabri Read on Aeon
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The Chinese room
By Aeon Ideas · 2 days ago
Can we test for AI consciousness when we don’t understand our own? Getting into John Searle’s ‘Chinese room’ experiment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Medieval mental health
By Aeon Ideas · 2 days ago
Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music - by Katherine Harvey Read on Aeon
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Making revisions
By Aeon Ideas · 3 days ago
Indigenous knowledge and art overwrite colonial cartography to correct the historical record in Central Australia - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Our eloquent hands
By Aeon Ideas · 4 days ago
Physicians reject palmistry as nonsense. But reading the creases of our palms for hidden meaning is what doctors have always done - by Alison Bashford Read on Aeon
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The planet is… up to something
By Aeon Ideas · 5 days ago
An astronaut’s image of Earth from the 2026 lunar flyby reveals not our profound smallness but our growing significance - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Continental divide
By Aeon Ideas · 5 days ago
A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed? - by Shawn Miller Read on Aeon
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Upend the trickle-down
By Aeon Ideas · 8 days ago
Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix - by Les Coleman Read on Aeon
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Neuroqueering on the lawn
By Aeon Ideas · 9 days ago
Hans Christian Andersen’s tantrum in Charles Dickens’s garden was a case of ‘too muchness’, emotions bursting past respectability - by Siobhan Unwin & Kathryne Ford Read on Aeon
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More nothing now
By Aeon Ideas · 11 days ago
We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity - by Justin Neuman Read on Aeon
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The Singapore strategies
By Aeon Ideas · 12 days ago
The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus self-sufficiency - by Peter A Coclanis Read on Aeon
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The fog of hunger
By Aeon Ideas · 22 days ago
From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it - by Sarah Berg Read on Aeon
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A vocabulary for the future: touch
By Aeon Ideas · 23 days ago
A mesmerising blend of words and images make touch a doorway into the deepest questions in physics and philosophy - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Dolphins and other lovers
By Aeon Ideas · 23 days ago
The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous - by Eliran Arazi Read on Aeon
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The conscience files
By Aeon Ideas · 24 days ago
The sorrows and redemptions of visitors who mailed their ‘souvenirs’ back to Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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