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 ...

On my family’s small half-acre of land, my garden has always been the best place for me to feel relaxed. When I was in second grade, COVID-19 hit the Adirondacks, and, in true Adirondack style, we were sent home with pine tree saplings. When I first thought of growing a tree, little me ...

We are living and adapting to an increasingly digitized world. Schools have since become more online, chromebooks are now considered commonplace rather than a curiosity, and, according to Common Sense Media, the percentage of children who own phones at age twelve is 71%, and for 14 year-olds, ...