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In 39 States, People Can Be Sentenced to Life for Murders They Did Not Commit

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

A Forgotten Literary Window Into the Personal Life of Alan Turing

The End of Independent Agencies

Australia’s Greater Gliders Fly Majestically From Tree to Tree—And Now We Know Exactly How Far

The heart has a ‘little brain’ — and it protects against stress

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The Saudis Learn the Truth About Trump

How an Inbred Snake Invader Took Over an Island Paradise

Psychedelics Might Not Have Evolved to Get Humans High

Life, Death, and Who We Are Online

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

G.K. Chesterton on the Dandelion and the Meaning of Life

From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life

How Not to Waste Your Life

The Canadian poet Margaret Avison lived with such intense inwardness that Northrop Frye called her “a conscientious objector to life”

Open Thread

Beyond Greece and Rome

We've Been Wrong About Nuclear Power