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A Professor’s Memoir of Life Inside a Ravaged Body
Many narratives of disability convey uplifting messages of hardship overcome. Christina Crosby instead focusses, in brutal detail, on the pain she has suffered. By Michael M. Weinstein.
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What It’s Like to Almost Get Executed
San Quentin inmate Kevin Cooper on watching the minutes tick away on his life.
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The Hidden Price of Mindfulness Inc.
As the practice of mindfulness is packaged and peddled, it’s hard not to wonder if something essential is being lost. By David Gelles.
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Sin Will Find You Out
Megan Galbraith retraces the footsteps of her birth mother, who gave her up for adoption at nineteen years old in 1966 in New York City.
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Welcome to the land that no country wants
In 2014, an American dad claimed a tiny parcel of African land to make his daughter a princess. But Jack Shenker had got there first – and learned that states and borders are volatile and delicate things.
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My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster, review: ‘an ingenious structure’
Looking back at her homes, the late Margaret Forster found that walls can have hearts as well as ears. By Juliet Nicolson.
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Have I got nudes for you: Emer O’Toole on the art of being naked
After her underarm hair caused a stir on national TV, the writer was asked to pose for a nude painting. The experience led her to wonder why we’re still so shy about the naked human form.
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The Break-off Effect
The Virgin Galactic crash made the mechanical risks of space tourism clearer, but the psychological effects of space travel largely remain unknown. By Sydney Brownstone. (Nov. 5, ’14)
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The Polaroids of the Cowboy Poet
He captured a crumbling city and almost went down with it. Then one man saw his photos. By Dan Zak.
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Living with My Mother’s Mental Illness
On coming to terms with a mother’s unspoken mental illness. By Fariha Roisin.
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The art of tour guiding
When you’re driving a bus full of tourists through the Australian outback, a packet of chewing gum may be your only hope. By Robert Skinner.
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Sky readers
For most of human history, the stars told us where we were in space and time. Have we forgotten how to look up? By Gene Tracy.
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Fashioning Normal
“If schizophrenia is the domain of the slovenly, I stand outside its borders.” By Esmé Weijun Wang,
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At Home in the Liminal World
Living in transition, between cultures, we are discovering who we are. By Pamela Weintraub.
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A bird ballet
A mesmering murmuration of starlings. By Neels Castillon.
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The Great Surrender
On learning from the brute force of nature. By Amanda Fortini.
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Learning About Humanity on Public Transportation
I just saw the most talented subway performer I’ve ever seen. She wasn’t doing anything special—just singing along to karaoke tracks playing modern pop songs and Motown classics. But her voice was incredible. Jaded New Yorkers removed their earphones to listen. Upon completion of each song, the people inhabiting the platforms on both sides broke into applause. That doesn’t happen... By Chris Gethard. (June)
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A Wilderness of Waiting
In the eighth month of my nine-month human pregnancy, I go on a binge-Googling of animal gestation periods. Frilled sharks, I discover, gestate for 42 months. Elephants take 22 months. Sperm whales: 16. Walruses: 15. Rhinos: 14. Horses: 11. I am seeking solidarity and comparative comfort in the realm of beasts, seeking to place my experience on a spectrum of waiting... By Sarah Menkedick.
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Why I love the nothingness inside a float tank
Just when you crave one more sensual hit, the void of the float tank stops time, strips ego and unleashes the mind. By M. M. Owen.
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Desert Solitaire: An Uncommonly Beautiful Love Letter to Solitude and the Spiritual Rewards of Getting Lost
“Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.”
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