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In reliving the terror of childhood piano recitals, we ask: is it true the earth spins through space in the key of B Flat and that the sonification of the black hole in the center of the Perseus Galaxy sings 57 octaves below middle C?

The people who disappear from our lives are mysteries--books we borrowed and had to return unfinished. When they reappear in our lives from the time before now, what is the unique gift they bring?

Your life is a book in which the last chapter has not been written. Are we evolving towards a happy ending?

A ruptured appendix on an international flight brings a close call with death, or does it? What if the end is written into the beginning?

A dog bite in an English park brings about a confrontation and poses the question, does the universe require us to like everyone?

Full disclosure brings us closer. What is annoying to one is annoying to most, but there is one response that is universal.

Research shows that babies are not born blank slates but are innately altruistic. Is it true? Look back at your earliest memory. Who do you see?

There are 8.2 billion of us on this planet—the only planet in the solar system not named for a god. As the latest telescopes take us back to within 380,000 years of the Big Bang, prepare to be awed.

When a child nearly dies, a parent has to reassess the inevitably of letting go. Not to be the wind that carries the boat home, but the sea beneath, carrying that vessel wherever it needs to go.

A mother gives her daughter an awful piece of art as a wedding gift. Brain science says secret-keeping disconnects you from your sense of self, but sometimes your sense of self depends on keeping a secret.