Aeon1d
Plato saw little value in privacy. How do his ideas hold up in the information age?
Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...
Aeon1d
The listening gift
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...
Aeon4d
‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph
Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...
Aeon4d
To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities
Noah never reckoned with trinomials. Modern Creationists, grasping for footholds in the post-Darwinian world, maintain that Noah took 1,398 kinds of animal aboard his Ark, as the floodwaters gathered ...