A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

After the Fallout
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On jellyfish babies, my father’s pain, and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific

Mr. Olympia
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When the ancient Greeks looked at human muscle, they saw something different than we do

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

The Wonder of It All
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In search of awe

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Words Matter
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An opera can succeed only if libretto and score are in concert

Vital Signs
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What happened when my husband became a paramedic

Bicentennial Beginnings

Learning to write and learning to live, with Richard Wilbur as a guide

The Days After

Remembering Samantha Smith, the girl who dared to dream of peace at a time when so many feared a global war

A Clean, Well-Ordered Place

An ode to the grocery store

Lionized

The life and death of a celebrity puma—and what it really means to be wild  

This Is Not the Zombie Apocalypse

Is a new form of methamphetamine really to blame for a host of urban problems?

Queen of the Castle

Looking for Mama Lou, the legendary singer whose work helped inspire American ragtime

The Interdisciplinarian
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Evelyn Fox Keller has spent a lifetime in different scientific fields, while managing to shatter a glass ceiling or two

A Room for the Ages

Oglethorpe University’s time capsule was meant to last thousands of years, but will it?

Dancing With Deneuve

A young writer observed a failure in the making while watching François Truffaut in action

Freud Airlines

Now boarding, all passengers, Flight 1900 to Vienna

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