It may seem slippery and maddeningly abstract, but it’s also deeply intimate, infusing our every word and gesture. By Alan Burdick.

Here Are All the Possibilities. By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.

Time has just posted a mini-site about the 100 most influential photographs of the world, accompanied by their history. The selection is very relevant, the images are fantastic and varied, there is nothing to add. So I decided to present here 100 photographs that had absolutely no influence on anything. Existence, thankfully, their only merit.

Days before Fidel Castro’s death, National Geographic Photo Camp asked students in Havana what it means to be Cuban. This was their response. By Kirsten Elstner.

“I suspect that my father made a choice, and it meant concealing the past in order to live, with presence, in the present.” By Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.

The author, feeling hemmed in by the city, buys a secluded wilderness retreat. But are there any truly wild places left to escape to? And what exactly are we seeking when we head into the woods? By Kenneth R. Rosen.

Using a head-up display and a cap that reads brain activity, for the first time three people with spinal injury have controlled a robot and seen what it sees. By Helen Thomson.

The most vivid part of the mind bubbles up through sensation and new experience when unencumbered by analytical thought. By Daniel J. Siegel.

I had lost so much weight that I looked like walking skeleton. I was ready to give up. By Ann Rodgers. (Aug. 12, 2016)

A home is something both looked at and lived in, but that duality can be difficult to reconcile. By Rachel Cusk.

Morgan Maassen

We’ve moved from birding to dronewatching, from natural history to dark ecology. But are we still looking through colonialist binoculars? By Shannon Mattern.

In the mountains and deserts of the Middle East, the region's role in shaping our modern view of the cosmos quickly comes into focus. By Nadia Drake.

Jerika Bolen, who turned 14 just before Christmas, has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, an incurable genetic disease that often claims lives before adolescence. By Jim Collar.

Preserving the Sublime at One of the Darkest Places in America. By Amanda Petrusich.

Where is your mind? Where does your thinking occur? Where are your beliefs? By Keith Frankish.

Extract from ‘Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London’ by Matthew Beaumont. (Apr. 2016)

Clothes can be forms of thought as articulate as a poem or equation. Why then does philosophy like to dress them down? By Shahidha Bari. (May 19, 2016)

Josiah Neufeld writes about a couple preparing for the end. (Jan ’15)

From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics? By Gene Tracy.