Much of your identity is formed during moments you won't remember. By Erika Hayasaki.

When a woman gets her genome sequenced, questions about privacy arise for her identical twin sister. By Emily Mullin.

The myth of the bullied white outcast loner is helping fuel a fascist resurgence. By Willie Osterweil.

Darwin’s theory that natural selection drives evolution is incomplete without input from evolution’s anti-hero: Lamarck. By Michael Skinner .

What if Julius Evola had written a samurai treatise? What if Lao Tzu had written a long, systematic book of philosophy instead of the short, poetic chapters of the Tao Te Ching? What if the famed, long-lost book On Nature by Heraclitus – he who was called “The Dark” – were to be found and published?

A closer look at the Kondo craze indicates that it promotes the liberationist dogmas of the restless spirit over against the disciplines of an engaged mind. By Chris Lehmann.

What I saw at Stoicon 2016. By Blake Seitz.

“I’m not a witch who casts spells; I’m a witch who takes things people have cast aside and makes them new again.”

Female physicians share their stories. By Mandy Oaklander.

“I want both: marriage and lovers, freedom and security. I want my husband to say yes to this.” By Melissa Matthewson.

Most religions claim that there is more to the self than the brain. The traditional understanding is that human sentience and selfhood are conveyed via some kind of nonphysical substance, often called a ‘soul.’ By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.

Rachel Dolezal, in recent years has portrayed herself physically, and on social media platforms, as a woman of black African-American heritage. However, her parents, who are both white say their daughter is not African-American. With Esa Diaz-Leon, Meena Krishnamurthy, Rebecca Kukla, Charles Mills, Daniel Silvermint, and Quayshawn Spencer.

Why shaking someone’s beliefs turns them into stronger advocates. By Ed Yong. (Oct. 19, 2010)

Inside our complicated relationship with mirrors. By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian.

A whale biologist reports from the world’s biggest primatology conference. By Shane Gero. (Aug. 24, 2016)

A tale of repentance, redemption and reinvention. (June 30, 2016)

I am my things and my things are me. I don’t want to give them up: they are narrative prompts for the story of my life. By Lee Randall.

How does a song we dislike at first hearing become a favourite? And when we try to look different, how come we end up looking like everyone else? By Tom Vanderbilt.

Human hair has a remarkable mystique.... By Scott Lowe.

We’re supposed to follow a certain narrative when our partners leave us. What happens when we flip the playbook? By Lauren McKeon. (Jan. 4, 2016)