Society

Before You Go: Hannah Ziegler on the unshakeable legacy of her Holocaust-surviving grandfather, whose memory is destroyed—but whose stories will live forever

Matt Gurney: After 9/11, the U.S. began quietly surveying national monuments. In France, Notre Dame will benefit from similar, powerful tools of science and engineering.

A 1984 study planted the seed that would lead the media to falsely demonize Gaëtan Dugas as Patient Zero of an epidemic that would kill more than 700,000 people in North America

Geophysicists tracking the Earth’s magnetic field say the pole is slipping into Siberian territory

Anne Kingston: There has yet to be a #MeToo equivalent for the largely private crime of family violence

Kristen Worley and Lorimer Shenher delve into their journeys in their new books; ’Woman Enough’ and ’This One Looks Like a Boy’

Generosity of spirit was on full display: non-Muslim citizens donned hijabs in solidarity, politicians legislated swiftly—and survivors emerged as leaders and heroes

And how real reconciliation is going to require an internal reformation within non-Indigenous Canada

Before You Go: Sarah Mian on the heartbreak of unexplained infertility, and the cosmic relationship between biological and adoptive parents

Peter Shawn Taylor: The gender gap in science and technology graduates is a persistent problem. New research suggests we may be approaching it all wrong.