See all summaries and reviews from Aeon at a glance.
Adrienne Mayor
Half-human soldiers, robot servants and eagle drones – the Greeks got there first. Could an AI learn from their stories?
Henry Cowles
The authoritative statement of scientific method derives from a surprising place – early 20th-century child psychology
Clayton Dalton
For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover?
George Musser
Our machines could become self-aware without our knowing it. We need a better way to define and test for consciousness
Vincent DeVita and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
A critical mass of medical knowledge could soon end the death threat of cancer, but politics stands in the way
David Scales
Gabriele Oettingen
Samir Chopra
Marc Levinson
Unprecedented growth marked the era from 1948 to 1973. Economists might study it forever, but it can never be repeated. Why?
Lawrence Glickman
On the Left, ‘neoliberal’ is an epithet but, not long ago, everyone wanted to be liberal. Will anyone claim liberalism?
Kevin Laland
Is evolutionary science due for a major overhaul – or is talk of “revolution” misguided?
James Livingston
Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?
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