Janet Mock, a writer living in New York, tells her story of growing up transsexual in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she was born male and transitioned from Charles to Janet during her freshman year of high school. Due to her adolescent transition, she was bullied, teased and taunted through the halls of h...

In this installation two purple dots travel over a plane curve that's a simple modification of Bernoulli's Lemniscate. Notes are played when dots meet and when the distance between them reaches a local extreme. Chords used were arbitrarily chosen. A time laps photo essay of the sun's position durin...

In his recent remarks to congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of his countrymen and women, and of his land, in loving terms. I immediately remembered the poetry of Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) set by David Nowakowsky (1848-1921), of the Brodsky Synagogue in Odessa, which evokes ...

Total Recall is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired by the famous short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even thoug...

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

Disney just unveiled a 3D model of what their new park, Star Wars Land, will look like. The park is designed to be a remote trading post on a "never-before-seen planet" and is expected to open in 2019.

Professional Australian surfer Mick Fanning had a huge scare as his board was attacked by a shark during the 2015 World Surf League championship's, at the Jeffreys Bay Open in South Africa, Sunday

We don’t yet know what the James Webb Space Telescope will uncover. Will we get answers? Will we have more questions? One thing’s certain: The story of us is a never-ending quest for knowledge.

President Obama delivers remarks at COP21 in Paris on the global community's need to address the threat of climate change. November 30, 2015.

An effort to restore mangroves is underway in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula with a group of women working to restore a vital ecosystem under threat from development and climate change.