An Intermission

Does living in a vast universe make humanity less significant? Scott Acton spent more than 20 years helping build the most advanced telescope humanity has ever made. The goal? To see the first stars that ever turned on in our universe. If it works, we’ll be looking more than 13 billion years into …

Is my brain me? Diane Lane is a neuroscientist. She’s spent her life studying the brain—its patterns, its failures, its power to define who we are. But when her mom has a stroke, something essential seems to slip away. The woman she knew is still there—but changed. It forces us to ask: If our bra…

Am I bad or sick? Lindsay has lived with disordered eating since childhood. She tried everything she could find, but nothing worked. For decades, each failure felt moral—like she was choosing wrong. Then she starts a new medicine, and within 24 hours, the compulsion that shaped her life disappear…