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Science can’t decide if our genes have more or less value than the Baldwin brothers

The battlefield still bears the scars left by the human genius for destruction

From 2015: A survivor shares what really happened on the mountain during the 2003 Alberta avalanche, in which seven schoolkids died.

Monica Lewinsky’s (and our) problem isn’t technological, it’s cultural

What harm could come from sending off a sample of your DNA to find out your genetic history and potential health problems?

Jon Ronson on the uses and abuses of digital shaming, the personal wreckage, and the fear you might be the next target

Counselling, forgiveness rituals, at-home funerals—death midwives provide end-of-life spiritual care for the secular

An academic plumbs the roots of obsession to understand her own

Mr. Spock was a character for the whole world, writes Jaime Weinman

Inuit have dozens of words for snow. Canadians as a whole have hundreds of swear words for winter.