aeon Magazine

Escaping with

Friday 28 August 2020

As the seasons begin to turn for our readers in both the northern and southern hemispheres, we’re taking a weeklong breather from new publishing and bringing you some favourites from the archive. Our love of bold new ideas, mindbending perspectives and of possibility, beauty and wonder have shaped our choices this year. I hope you enjoy this horizonal journey.   – Brigid Hains, Editorial Director

Animals and humans Essay Birds are ‘winged words’ The Classical world abounded with avians – and so birds took up in the human imagination, nesting in our language and art by Jeremy Mynott   Philosophy of science Essay The necessity of awe In awe we hold fast to nature’s strangeness and open up to the unknown. No wonder it’s central to the scientific imagination by Helen De Cruz And more...