The New York Times
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Heather Murphy
– Dec 7, 2:00 AM
Three months after his bone marrow transplant, Chris Long of Reno, Nev., learned that the DNA in his blood had changed. It had all been replaced by the DNA of his donor, a German man he had exchanged just a handful of messages with. He'd been…
Brain Pickings
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Maria Popova
– Dec 6, 2016, 11:15 PM
In the final weeks of 1993, Toni Morrison (b. February 18, 1931) became the first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize, awarded her for being a writer “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life…
Brain Pickings
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Maria Popova
– Aug 26, 2015, 12:00 AM
The history of recorded thought is strewn with evidence that happiness lives in the most ordinary of moments. And yet no matter how universal a human aspiration it may be, articulating happiness in those rare moments when it is perfectly attained…
After journalist Priya Ramani broke the silence, more than a dozen women journalists came forward to accuse veteran editor and minister MJ Akbar of sexual harassment during last year's #MeToo movement. Akbar's response was to slap a defamation case…
The English-American astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10, 1900–December 7, 1979) — the first person to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy at Radcliffe-Harvard and the first woman to chair a Harvard department…
