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A Korean pastor recently told me the story of the Ungnyeo, the mythical mother of the Korean nation. The myth goes that a tiger and bear both prayed to the heavenly God to be human. The God told them to go into a cave for 100 days, eating only garlic and mugwort, and...

Over the past several decades, neuroscientists have been gathering a lot of data about how brains work. They’ve managed to map where some specific functions like movement, speech, and visual processing seem to happen, but our understanding is still about as nuanced as...

I used to lead a get-to-know-you game with teenagers where I asked them to tell me everything important about themselves in under a minute. They would look panicky and start quickly listing facts, identities - “I play soccer, I have a little sister, uhhh, I’m in 9th...

This week I read the story of an absurd year-long battle over whether Pepsi or Coca-cola would have the first soda in space. In what sounds more like a Veep plotline than coherent corporate strategy, the two companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars designing...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the second season of Shiny Happy People. The documentary series spent its first season on the Duggar family (of "19 Kids and Counting" fame) and the larger cultural and religious infrastructure around their particular practice of...