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Tech
Humanity’s Long Search for the Soul in the Brain
How philosophers and neuroscientists have tried and failed to nail down the precise location of human consciousness.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
6.8.15
Stuff
A War Doctor Turned Poet Treats PTSD with Literature
We spoke with war poet Frederick Foote, a neurologist who's making poetry a required course of treatment in military hospitals.
Rory Tolan
2.9.15
The Fiction Issue 2013
A Teacher and Her Student
Marilynne Robinson was my fourth and final workshop instructor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. After receiving my MFA this May, I left Iowa believing that there's no good way to be taught how to write, to tell a story. But there is also no denying that...
Thessaly La Force
6.18.13

Tech
Monkeys, Not Just Humans, Can Teach Each Other Better Ways to Use Tools
Put another nail in Descartes' old, rotting coffin.
Austin Considine
1.31.13