Aeon Summaries and Reviews
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Going Nowhere Fast
After the success of the Standard Model, experiments have stopped answering to grand theories. Is particle physics in crisis?
Aeon, 2018
Evolution Unleashed
Is evolutionary science due for a major overhaul – or is talk of “revolution” misguided?
Aeon, 2018
No Boss? No Thanks
Far from making them obsolete, the flatter business organisations of today need managers more than ever but in new ways
Aeon, 2019
Knowledge Is Crude
Far from being a touchstone of the truth, knowledge is a Stone Age concept that harms our dealings with the modern world
Aeon, 2019
Where Pain Lives
Fixing chronic back pain is possible only when patients understand how much it is produced by the brain, not the spine.
Aeon, 2017
Child’s Play
The authoritative statement of scientific method derives from a surprising place – early 20th-century child psychology
Aeon, 2017
Chronic
For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover?
Aeon, 2018
How to Choose?
When Your Reasons Are Worse than Useless, Sometimes the Most Rational Choice Is a Random Stab in the Dark
Aeon, 2014
Philosophy Tool Kit
Thinking like a philosopher need not be a strange and arcane art, if you get started with these tricks of the trade.
Aeon, 2017
It’s Not All Lightbulbs
If we abandon the cult of the Great White Innovator, we will understand the history of technology in a much deeper way
Aeon, 2017
The Soviet InterNyet
Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet
Aeon, 2017
End of a Golden Age
Unprecedented growth marked the era from 1948 to 1973. Economists might study it forever, but it can never be repeated. Why?
Aeon, 2017
In Proof We Trust
Blockchain technology will revolutionise far more than money: It will change your life. Here’s how it actually works
Aeon, 2016
Fuck work
Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?
Aeon, 2016
Death of Cancer
A critical mass of medical knowledge could soon end the death threat of cancer, but politics stands in the way
Aeon, 2016
Bio-Techne
Half-human soldiers, robot servants and eagle drones – the Greeks got there first. Could an AI learn from their stories?
Aeon, 2016
Getting Smarter
Brain-training games won’t boost your IQ, but a host of strategies can improve your cognitive abilities one piece at a time
Aeon, 2016
Group Smarts
Groupthink can be stultifying. So how do the most successful groups elicit collective intelligence from their members?
Aeon, 2016
Stupefied
How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door
Aeon, 2016
The Golden Age
The 15-hour working week predicted by Keynes may soon be within our grasp – but are we ready for freedom from toil?
Aeon, 2016
Everyone Was a Liberal
On the Left, ‘neoliberal’ is an epithet but, not long ago, everyone wanted to be liberal. Will anyone claim liberalism?
Aeon, 2016
