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Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Psyche is our sister magazine focused on the human condition. Visit aeon.co and psyche.co for more.
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    Aeon Magazine
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    Mar 20, 2025
    Aeon has paused posting on X. Thank you for your continued support. Stay connected with us on Facebook and Instagram @aeonmag, join us on Bluesky @Aeon.co, and sign up to Aeon’s newsletter here: aeon.co/newsletter
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    May 12, 2018
    Benjamin Lay was a radical Quaker, an ex-sailor, and an unlikely pioneer of the world’s first modern social movement: abolitionism. Last week’s most read: ow.ly/nnlZ30jWon5
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    Jul 21, 2017
    Economists use mathematical models to masquerade as a science. The discipline has become more like astrology: ow.ly/4gFQ30dN1Fm
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    Dec 24, 2016
    Physics is on the verge of an Earth-shattering discovery: ow.ly/ovGt307oiC5
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    Oct 7, 2020
    In 1971, Foucault met Chomsky in the Netherlands for their first and only debate. Watch the provocative Foucault spar with the professorial Chomsky. From the Aeon Video archive:
    A bald man who is Michel Foucault with glasses and a jacket, pointing with his finger, engaged in a conversation with another person.
    When Chomsky met Foucault: how the thinkers debated the ‘ideal society’ | Aeon Videos
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    Aeon Magazine
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    Apr 29, 2021
    If discretion is no longer a design priority, then hearing aids could become as fashionable as eyewear
    A young man turns his head with his hand to reveal a unique gold ear accessory.
    Let’s use bold, beautiful hearing aids to celebrate deafness | Psyche Ideas
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    Feb 28, 2020
    ‘Marcus Aurelius helped me survive grief and rebuild my life’ aeon.co/ideas/marcus-a… @Euthyphro
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    Marcus Aurelius helped me survive grief and rebuild my life | Aeon Ideas
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    Aeon Magazine
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    Jul 4, 2019
    In 1971, Foucault met Chomsky in the Netherlands for their first and only debate. Watch the provocative Foucault spar with the professorial Chomsky. Aeon Video: ow.ly/Tae850uTbLH
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    May 18, 2020
    Today we launch Psyche, a sister site to Aeon exploring mental health, the question of ‘how to live’, and artistic and transcendent experience. It’s a big milestone for us! We hope you enjoy it
    Psyche | Know Your Self
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    Apr 8, 2024
    I went to a child psychoanalyst four times a week for three years. Reading her account of our time together years later, I am struck by how much she hated me @_MichaelBacon bit.ly/3J7vIr4
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    Jan 1, 2020
    The first words to pass between Europeans and Americans were in the sacred language of Islam. The name ‘California’ might even have some Arabic lineage. How Muslims have been written out of early American history. Readers’ favourites 2019: ow.ly/o5Sa50xy41B
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    Oct 16, 2020
    Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism aeon.co/essays/for-han… @Samantharhill
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    For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness | Aeon Essays
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    Feb 13, 2019
    ‘You are a way for the Universe to be in awe of itself.’ A Carl Sagan for our times, the theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack’s video essay finds lyricism in black holes and the sands of Mars. Aeon Video: ow.ly/kvYY50lb10Z @AstroKatie @NCStateSciences
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    Jun 22, 2020
    This expedition explored never-before-seen ocean canyons and coral reefs deep in the sea off Western Australia. On Aeon Video: ow.ly/vc1N50AdQae
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