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Why rich parents need to memorize this curve

A half-hour drive up the road from Shepaug Valley, in the town of Lakeville…

If our mother’s cells have done so much for medicine, how come her family can’t afford doctors?

You are not the voice talking in your head.

Suppose you were looking at three objects — a flowerpot, a photograph, and a book — and were then asked, “Which of these objects is you?”

You’d say, “None of them! I’m the one who’s looking at what you’re putting in front of me…

What’s so magical about Solitude?

In a now famous experiment, Anders Ericsson (a research psychologist) and his colleagues compared three groups of expert violinists…all three groups spent the same amount of time practicing — over fifty hours a week — but the two best groups spent most of their…

Humbled by Nature. You could have just as easily been a worm.

The geneticist Antoine Danchin once used the parable of the Delphic boat to describe the process by which individual genes could produce the observed complexity of the natural world. In the proverbial story, the oracle at…

Were you just counting on good looks and charm to catch a fish?

See, a funny thing happened on the way to space: I learned how to live better and more happily here on Earth. Over time, I learned how to anticipate problems in order to prevent them, and how to respond effectively in…

And this is a teaching you will laugh about

“I can love a stone, Govinda, and also a tree or a piece of bark. These are things…