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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.
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Traction!
https://aeon.co/essays/why-a-world-without-friction-is-a-world-without-progress
Published: October 23, 2026 10:00
Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars- by Jennifer R VailRead on Aeon
Bhutan: the last place
https://aeon.co/videos/what-happened-when-the-only-country-to-ban-tv-lifted-the-ban
Published: October 22, 2026 10:01
What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999?- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Other people
https://aeon.co/essays/living-in-community-is-where-self-illusions-go-to-die
Published: October 22, 2026 10:00
Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally- by Elizabeth OldfieldRead on Aeon
When it started to burn
https://aeon.co/videos/what-four-years-of-ceaseless-war-looks-like-to-ukrainian-civilians
Published: October 21, 2026 10:01
Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
How intuitions work
https://aeon.co/essays/sometimes-you-just-know-somethings-off-but-how
Published: October 20, 2026 10:00
Just as seeing a tree gives you reason to believe it’s there, sensing that a stranger is creepy gives you reason to walk away- by Marc A MoffettRead on Aeon
A vocabulary for the future: nature
https://aeon.co/videos/theres-nothing-inherently-good-in-the-natural-argues-bruno-latour
Published: October 19, 2026 10:01
For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Horrible, unmanly, indispensable
https://aeon.co/essays/the-renaissance-gun-from-diabolical-device-to-popular-militias
Published: October 19, 2026 10:00
Renaissance Italians saw the gun as the Devil’s work. But soon they embraced this unchivalrous – and necessary – weapon- by Catherine FletcherRead on Aeon
How to be a (Roman) man
https://aeon.co/essays/the-politics-of-masculinity-at-the-end-of-the-roman-republic
Published: October 16, 2026 10:00
Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination- by Catharine EdwardsRead on Aeon
The secrets of Hohle Fels cave
https://aeon.co/videos/hohle-fels-cave-illuminates-the-rich-symbolic-world-of-ice-age-humans
Published: October 15, 2026 10:01
Why aren’t we all Neanderthals? These ancient bird figurines suggest that art was essential to our evolutionary success- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
The ladder of knowledge
https://aeon.co/essays/the-century-long-search-for-the-limits-to-knowledge
Published: October 15, 2026 10:00
What we claim as ‘true’ is not a ceiling we are forever failing to reach but something that changes as we climb toward it- by Alexander V GheorghiuRead on Aeon