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How Doctors Use Poetry

A Harvard medical student describes how he is learning to both treat and heal.

September 26, 2018

The Cost of Blood

When corporations run the government and any crime can be bought.

July 2, 2018

The Rhythm of Sculpture

How science has informed one sculptor’s view of time.

June 26, 2018

The Spacetime of Fine Art

For the painter Matthew Phillips, past, present, and future meet at the tip of a brush.

June 19, 2018

Making Time Machines From Taxi Meters

A sculptor explains how his art upends time.

June 12, 2018

A New View of Time

Introducing the Nautilus Time Project.

The Woman Redeemed by Trees

A story about connection by the National Book Award winner.

April 3, 2018

Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?

The problem with C.P. Snow’s famous two-cultures hypothesis.

March 20, 2018

Al Gore Does His Best Ralph Waldo Emerson

The former vice president reads the transcendentalist poet—and reminds us of one.

March 12, 2018