Even for people who are deeply disabled neurologically, nature can be more powerful than any medication. By Oliver Sacks.

What might make life hard to recognize as life? By Caleb A. Scharf.

A handful of species have seemingly avoided the aging process. By Erica Tennenhouse.

"Dodgson had taken a travelling chess set with him, which proved a boon on some of their long train journeys; he also recorded his first impression of Moscow as 'bulging gilded domes, in which you see as in a looking-glass distorted pictures of the city.'” By Mark Davies.

Adam Bales reviews a book by Agnes Callard that examines the mystery of desire and aspiration, arguing that aspiration is dualistic, and inextricable from desire.

Echo and the Bunnymen

A Stephen Hawking Tribute

Dreams accompany us literally from the cradle to the grave. By Patrick McNamara.

While most photographers are tucked in bed, this sharpshooter dons dive gear and searches for his subjects at the ocean’s surface, in the black of night. By Michael Patrick O’Neill.

If this is the last thing you ever read, it will be worth it. By Jordan Bates.

“Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?” — William James. By Aaron Dabbah.

A little review of travel literature. By Bernd Brunner.

Jamie Scott

On Wednesday, my girlfriend died. She was an artist who lived in Providence, Rhode Island. She was 41 years old. By Lisa Williams.

Erik Wernquist

Discovering the infinite universe. By Lewis H. Lapham.

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge” – Abraham Joshua Heschel.