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A Mental Disease by Any Other Name

For Frank Russell, reinterpreting his schizophrenia as shamanism helped his symptoms.

September 8, 2016

Noise Is a Drug and New York Is Full of Addicts

We may complain about a defining feature of the city, but we also feed off it.

July 19, 2016

How to Survive Solitary Confinement

An ex-convict on how to set your mind free.

January 21, 2016

The Man Who Used Facebook to Find an Extinct Human Species

Lee Berger has a knack for finding fossils his own way.

November 12, 2015

Through Fortitude or Stupidity, Lee Berger Is Rewriting Human History

The paleoanthropologist makes no apologies for going his own way.

November 12, 2015