The Pain Principle

What if the animal rights movement abandoned its focus on suffering and appealed to a different set of human emotions?

Huevos Pintos

“The Flower-School” by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Art of Doing Nothing Much, Together

Sheila Liming on the importance of chillaxing

Teamwork

“Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Our Pragmatic Present

There is no prescribed meaning or purpose to our lives—and that’s okay

Mind in Nature: John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Living by Mark Johnson and Jay Schulkin

Cherry Blossom Bonanza

Naoko Abe on how an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry trees—and spread them around the world

On the Record, At Last

My father never got to tell his story at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg—it’s taken decades for the truth to come out

River’s Edge

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

In the Mushroom

True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business

Consolidated Ruin

“After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño

Ancestral healing

Asteroid Hunters

The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

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