Aeon is a digital magazine of ideas and culture, and it offers an original essay every weekday. The tone of these pieces is learned and conversational with recent features including, "How Medicine and Ritual Got Hopelessly Entangled in Uganda" as well as "What is it Like to be a Bird? The Science of Animal Consciousness." Visitors can also browse the collected essays by topical headings that include World Views, Being Human, Nature & Cosmos, and Oceanic Feeling. Under the Popular heading readers will discover a collection of those pieces that have found a large audience, while the Upcoming area provides a peek at future titles.