“The Twilight Zone,” a TV show airing from 1959-1964, is regarded by many to be one of, if not the most, thought-provoking and influential shows of all time. Its legacy and the legacy of its creator, writer and narrator Rod Serling, are massive. Although the show has already been ...

On Feb. 14, 2022, I was with my basketball team getting ready to make the trip to our game. I got moved to the second modified team, so I texted my father. “Hey Dad, I got moved to the second game for tonight. It probably won’t start until about 6.” He opened it, but no ...

I want to tell you the story of how my perspectives on perfection, spirituality, the body, the mind and love have changed, and what I’ve learned from that journey. It’s sort of a mix of groundedness and impermanence and collective consciousness. It’s Buddhism, it’s quantum physics, and ...

What does it mean to talk directly to artificial intelligence? Not just use it, but question it, give it personhood and ask it to reflect on its own experience? Rather than discussing the pros or cons of AI, here we dive into a conversation with the system itself and ask the questions ...

When I saw myself for the first time, I was wearing a green light-up fedora for “crazy hat day” at my school. I’d seen other girls tie their hair up in a way to make themselves look like a guy, so I did the same, and when I looked in the mirror that morning, I felt this rush of pure ...

A month after my brother died, a puppy bounded into my life. Yes, you read that correctly — a few months ago, I lost one of the most important people in my life, as well as a piece of my heart. To anyone reading, this sounds like the most abrupt and underdeveloped decision one could make ...