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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.

A woman discovers she has an unusually high percentage of Neanderthal genes. What if all races go the way of the Neanderthals? A humorous look at where we are going, where we have been.

A hot air balloon flight is a mesmerizing lesson on the physics of love and the physics of sound.

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.

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.

A writer receives a smug, unnecessarily cruel rejection and learns not only to separate herself from the judgment of others but to pass that gift on.