I had some rare pockets of time alone this weekend and spent them watching Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary Hemingway. I expected literature. I expected Paris, bullfights, wars, women, fishing, drinking, Africa, Cuba, and all the familiar mythology of the great American man.
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“Hope is the thing with feathers,” wrote Emily Dickinson. Maybe. But for many of us who’ve struggled with addiction, trauma, or just the daily torment of being a human being in a world that doesn’t care about your pain until it makes a spectacle—it hasn’t always felt like a...
The word epigenetics comes from the Greek prefix epi- meaning “above” or “on top of” and the word genetics. It refers to the study of changes in gene expression that do not involve alterations to the underlying DNA sequence—essentially, it’s how life tunes the instrument of the genome based...
Varanasi, one of the oldest living cities in the world, has a profound relationship with grief and mourning. Known for its ghats and pyres where bodies are cremated with clarified butter, Varanasi is a place where life and death converge. The city’s history is steeped in rituals that honor...