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Friday, August 28, 2020

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 humansEssay
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 scienceEssay
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
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