Two students are walking down the hallway, in opposite directions, and an administrator looks on. The students are of different races, different genders, and one is crying. In that moment, the student who feels fine... Read More

It's 2:17 a.m. A patient sits in an emergency observation room after telling a physician that they intend to end their life when they leave the hospital. They answer questions coherently, understand the risks of... Read More

Atheism. It is a simple word for many people around the world; it simply means not believing in any creator or deity. That's it. You can be an atheist with minimal issues in Sweden, China... Read More

Most of us have encountered situations where we thought of the perfect reply to an argument after the fact, when it was too late. Denis Diderot describes this phenomenon in his essay “Paradox of the... Read More

My raised bed at Hogge Park measures six feet by 18. Bigger than a coffin. Not by much. A metal fence runs along one side of it — put up, in roughly equal measure, to... Read More

In conversations with international friends and colleagues, a curious paradox emerges with increasing frequency: People in the developed world, particularly those trapped in the routines of modern employment, are beginning to look toward beautiful, lower-income... Read More

In 1852, the physicist and mathematician Lord Kelvin came up with the first scientific theory for the end of the universe. He envisioned a fate based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that... Read More