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Whispers of Light: A Symphony of Hope By Editorial Team In shadows’ grasp, where darkness dwells, A journey unfolds, where courage swells, With every step, through trials unknown, A spirit rises, a heart is sown. Beneath the weight of sorrow’s tide, A flicker flickers, a flame inside, Though clouds may […]
2023-06-06 Book Review: Confronting the Mystery of a Debilitating Illness By Rhoda Feng In 1989, at the age of 21, Jennifer Lunden began suffering from what she calls a “mysterious fatigue” that has dogged her ever since. At first, she was told it might be mononucleosis, but she never recovered, and her symptoms, including crushing […]
Socrates’ Eros Essay Socrates’ Eros What is Eros? It is the ancient Greek word for love. Rephrasing the question, we see the classic question put forward by philosophers, artists and heartbroken couples, what love is. From ancient to modern time, love as an important part of humanity attracts humans to explore its essence. Long […]
Beyond Hogwarts: Discovering the Diversity of Fantasy Fiction Authors By Brian Gill The fantastic world-building and narrative skills of my contemporaries who write in the fantasy fiction genre never fail to amaze and motivate me as a fiction writer myself. The realm of fantasy literature is rich in originality, awe, and imagination; this […]
2023-04-19 Book Review: How Alzheimer’s Caregivers Cope in a Warped Reality by Lina Tran At 25, Dasha Kiper moved in with a 98-year-old man. She’d just left a graduate program in clinical psychology; Mr. Kessler was a Holocaust survivor in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, whose son had hired Kiper as a […]
2023-04-11 Book Review: How Alzheimer’s Caregivers Cope in a Warped Reality by Lina Tran At 25, Dasha Kiper moved in with a 98-year-old man. She’d just left a graduate program in clinical psychology; Mr. Kessler was a Holocaust survivor in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, whose son had hired Kiper as a live-in caregiver. […]
2023-04-03 Book Review: How Misinformation Acts Like a Virus by Christie Aschwanden In the early months of 2022, U.S. intelligence officials announced that Russian propagandists were preparing to release a fake video and images that purported to show Ukrainian aggression as a pretext for Russia’s planned invasion. “The goal of these campaigns was not to […]
2023-03-03 Book Review: Unraveling the Enigma of Schizophrenia by Joshua C. Kendall Schizophrenia has long been understood to be among the most serious and intractable of all mental disorders. The condition typically begins in early adulthood and lasts a lifetime. Its hallmark features include hallucinations, withdrawal from social situations, and serious problems in cognition, such […]
2023-02-24 Book Review: The Strange History of Binding Books in Human Skin by Elizabeth Svoboda In 2015, Megan Rosenbloom traveled to Harvard University’s Houghton Library in search of a book called “Des destinées de l’âme“ (“Destinies of the Soul”), by the French author Arsène Houssaye. This copy of Houssaye’s masterwork had a singular distinction: At […]
2023-02-06 In Review Pliny the Elder’s radical idea to catalog knowledge This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia By Tom Siegfried Among the achievements of the ancient Roman Empire still acclaimed today, historians list things like aqueducts, roads, legal theory, exceptional architecture and […]