Illegible benefits
The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays tha...
30 Jun 25min
The measure of flourishing
Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship Index. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through e...
29 Jun 23min
The violence specialists
Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays t...
26 Jun 19min
Who are the fire-tamers?
From remote farmhouses to oncology clinics, a secret world of French healers works in parallel with conventional medicine. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays...
25 Jun 30min
No one is self-made
The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays ...
22 Jun 26min
Trauma creep
From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through ...
19 Jun 29min
Words, words, words
Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays...
18 Jun 22min
What is this rock?
Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help u...
16 Jun 17min
