Can the Brain Help Heal a Broken Heart?

This work could also help researchers understand the mechanisms that link psychological factors with physical health.

How to Stop the Future from Destroying Us

Nuclear war. Resource wars. Climate wars. AI wars. Wars in outer space. We’ve got our hands full. But maybe here’s a way through it.

Can a Butterfly’s Wings Trigger a Distant Hurricane?

Chaos and Cause: The answer depends on the perspective you take: physics or human agency…

What is Poetry?

Poet and artist Gozo Yoshimasu defines what poetry is via Basho, Walter Benjamin, Paul Klee, smoke, Zen philosophy, and handwriting.

Global Mobility, Bordered Realities, and Ethnocultural Contact Zones

Borders no longer are mere fixed invisible divisions set under geopolitical rationales whose main objective is defining national territorialities.

Words of Albert Camus

Patti Smith at her own Substack: Recently I was in San Francisco and did a…

Poem: So Live Your Life

So live your life that the fear of deathcan never enter your heart. Troubleno one…

Who Is the Ex-Israeli Soldier Serving as Biden’s Lebanon Envoy?

Since Oct. 7 of last year, his role has shifted from ostensibly being focused on energy to outwardly concerned with armed conflict.

China Builds a New Eurasia

China’s efforts to decarbonize are upending a world economy dependent on the petrodollar and, in the process, restructuring the U.S.-led world.

Ted Nordhaus: Environmentalism is Antithetical to Abundance

Stopping the planet from warming requires that we stop emitting carbon dioxide entirely,; that means that to effectively mitigate climate change, you have to build an entirely new energy economy.

Why America Fell For Guns

The US today has extraordinary levels of gun ownership. But to see this as a venerable tradition is to misread history.

The Surprising Cause of Fasting’s Regenerative Powers

Post-fast feasting helps to activate stem cells in the gut but can also prompt development of precancerous growths, mouse research shows.