There is nothing inevitable or natural about chronic disease – Clayton Dalton | Aeon Ideas In the 1830s, British settlers in New Zealand imported European rabbits for food and sport. With no native predators, the rabbits soon took over. Accounts from the period describe thousands of hectares run through with burrows, and huge tracts of ...

Aeon Row strives to close the loop on fashion

This Fashion Startup Wants You To Have A Sustainable Relationship With Your Closet Aeon Row recycles your old clothes into new fabric, so you can feel good about your purchase and have room for it.

If the internet is addictive, why don’t we regulate it? — Michael Schulson — Aeon Essays Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. Should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos?

What drives the urge to explore? – Veronique Greenwood – Aeon A remote island, an Arctic expedition, a one-way trip to Mars – what drives our urge to explore the farthest reaches?

Life without boredom would be a nightmare – Andreas Elpidorou – Aeon Just like pain, boredom is an aversive and unpleasant experience that we need to have in order to truly live well

Here Come The Dannies Take a quick look, a sneak peek, into our not-so-distant future, courtesy of the great science-fiction writer Peter Watts(1), who writes in Aeon magazine:..

Aeon Flux - Trailer Academy Award-winner* Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, the underground operative fighting totalitarian rule in the 25th-century Earth's last living city. ...

Will people actually be able to go to Mars? Will people really be permanently living on the planet? Ross Andersen of Aeon Magazine says humanity may actually need Mars to survive.