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How the brain memorizes and how the heart memorizes are two different processes. One requires effort (like converting Fahrenheit to Celsius), the other, does not. What do you carry in memory and why?

When a fifth-grade boy is run over by a powerboat and comes back to school injured, a classmate who is drawn to heal him has a dream.

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?

What if before you were born, everyone who would be important in your life picked a role to play? Picked up a script? Who was at your first read-through and who are they to you now?

The place we grew up and the places we have lived have imprinted themselves on our psyches, but is it possible that have we left something of ourselves on the land?

Why is it so impossible to see ourselves as we really are? Always striving to be better, to improve? Two friends discover that sometimes it requires a look back from the future to see what was always true.

Five heifers have disappeared from a Virginia farm and are on the lam; underdogs we root for, they are enjoying their freedom on borrowed time. If you are an American you owe the democracy you enjoy to another group of underdogs, who fought for your freedom against all odds.

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.

Suitcases too heavy to lift, reservations cancelled. The man in the Ray-Bans, the compassionate reservations clerk, may never be seen again but their kindnesses are not forgotten. So many of us traveling together for just a short time. Who’s sitting next to you?

When bats invade a pregnant young mother’s house while she is alone with two children on a stormy night with no electricity, she learns it is easier to be brave as a unit.