Physics

Science

Phenomena: waves

Engineering

Music

Culture

Music and sex

Pleasure and pain

Human evolution

Animals and humans

Society

The elephant’s song

History

Maestro of more than music

Biography and memoir

Beauty and aesthetics

Cognition and intelligence

Psychology

The Mozart effect

Self-improvement

Home

Thai country living

Travel

Uproar

Gender

Dance and theatre

Quantum theory

Quantum music

The stroke

Film and visual culture

Stories and literature

Ladies and gentlemen… Mr Leonard Cohen

Philosophy

A philosophy of sound

A concerto is a conversation

Family life

Repetition

Consciousness and altered states

Illness and disease

Don’t think twice

Ageing and death

Neurodiversity

Giant Steps

Vienna, city of paradox

Cities

Making music from brainwaves and heartbeats

Biotechnology

Biology

Liza

Annual musical report

Making

Free improvisation

Subcultures

9at38

War and peace

Social psychology

Work

Plastic and glass

Rituals and celebrations

Teaching and learning

Musical traumas

Childhood and adolescence

Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be?

Mood and emotion

Essays and videos on the arts, literature, travel, rituals and celebrations

Culture Essays from Aeon on topics that animate human cultures, from stories and literature to rituals and celebrations, art and architecture to our relationship with the natural world. 