Aeon12h
Why Susan listens to recordings of herself speaking a language she no longer remembers
In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...
Aeon4d
The listening gift
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...
Aeon4d
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 ...
Aeon6d
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 ...