The Mathematics of Affection: Can Love Be Graphed Like a Fractal Pattern?
We’ve all felt it. That unexpected, dizzying plunge into infatuation, the slow, steady warm temperature of a many-years-long partnership, the jagged, painful rupture of a […]
We’ve all felt it. That unexpected, dizzying plunge into infatuation, the slow, steady warm temperature of a many-years-long partnership, the jagged, painful rupture of a […]
We stay in a global defined through the symbiotic relationship between the car and the vein. The automobile and the highway, the teacher and the […]
Imagine a world of silence, wherein the loudest statements are made without a word being spoken. A world where a ceiling beam, the texture of […]
We inhabit a world that has been painstakingly mapped. Our phones vibrate with turn-by-turn directions, leading us from A to B with clinical precision. We […]
We tend to think of our mental health in grand, sweeping terms. It’s the story of approximately 12 months of burnout, the narrative of overcoming […]
I have a confession. I find gyms a little strange. The fluorescent lights, the low grunt of effort punctuated by the clang of metal, the […]
The narrative of female economic power has, for the most part, followed a familiar and celebratory script. We laud the “girlboss” scaling the corporate ladder, […]
It happens in a garage on a Saturday morning. Two friends, let’s call them Mark and David, are running on an antique bike. For lengthy […]
It’s a quiet afternoon in a park in Xi’an, not a long way from the silent, imposing terracotta military guarding China’s first emperor. But right […]
I actually have a small, worn-out cardboard shield at the top of my closet. Inside are the physical fragments of my past: a bundle of […]
Every year or two, the same video makes the rounds online again. A lioness in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve — an animal that, by every […]
A sixty-two-second film sits in a storage room somewhere. Most people will never see it, let alone go looking for it. It was shot in […]
Nobody warned me about the silence. Not the silence itself — there isn’t any, really — but that particular moment just after sunset when the […]
Someone once told me that the saddest photograph ever taken is not of a war or a famine or a natural disaster. It is a […]
Here is something worth sitting with for a moment. The next time you watch a deer lift its head mid-chunk and test the treeline for […]
There is a forest in Gabon, deep in central Africa, where researchers once set up camera traps and walked away. No humans. No noise. Just […]