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Humanity’s Long Search for the Soul in the Brain
How philosophers and neuroscientists have tried and failed to nail down the precise location of human consciousness.
A War Doctor Turned Poet Treats PTSD with Literature
We spoke with war poet Frederick Foote, a neurologist who's making poetry a required course of treatment in military hospitals.
A Teacher and Her Student
Marilynne Robinson was my fourth and final workshop instructor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. After receiving my MFA this May, I left Iowa believing that there's no good way to be taught how to write, to tell a story. But there is also no denying that...
Monkeys, Not Just Humans, Can Teach Each Other Better Ways to Use Tools
Put another nail in Descartes' old, rotting coffin.
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