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...personal story, I'm very interested in illness. One thing we discovered as a family is that when you're thrown a curveball like cancer or multiple sclerosis, often people don't know what to do first. I'd love to help people navigate that so that they feel somehow in control in bad times...
...something 100 billion miles across. It was then a seething maelstrom of matter so hot that subatomic particles trying to form into atoms would have been blasted apart instantly and so dense that light couldn't have traveled more than a short distance before being absorbed. If you could somehow live long enough to look around in such conditions, you would see nothing but brilliant light in all directions...
...dark ages, there were no galaxies, no stars, no planets. Even if there had been, we wouldn't be able to spot them. That's because hydrogen-gas clouds are nearly opaque to visible light; no ordinary telescope will ever be able to see what happened afterward. Yet somehow the matter that started as a sea of individual atoms managed to transform itself into something more. So back in the early 1990s, Loeb began lobbying theorists to make a major push to deduce through computer simulations how the first stars formed. The plan was to re-create the young universe...
...down on fear and embarrassment and disappointment, but you can never quite go cold turkey. "The double bind, the problem of consciousness mixed with nothingness, never goes away," Franzen writes in The Discomfort Zone. And he never does find that owl. But somehow it doesn't really bother him. "Much of bird watching is about disappointment," he says. "Part of the appeal is that really, more often than not, you don't see what you're looking for. The great pursuits are more about failure than about success...
...Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi and the killing of her family members by U.S. soldiers, displayed insensitivity and poor judgment. The article began with a discussion of whether Abeer was beautiful. The answer, we learn, is no: she was merely "ordinary." Does it matter? Would the crime be somehow more understandable if the victim had been pretty? The reason the soldier selected her is unknown. Time's decision to evaluate Abeer's physical attractiveness and speculate on what made her "tantalizing" was both poor journalism and an insult to the young girl who died a violent and tragic death. Margaret...