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Who Are We Really? Author: Dani Shapiro Dani Shapiro has long been self-aware. She is a memoirist after all. She has even shared her painful transition away from her upbringing in Orthodox Judaism with us. Settling into who she is and what she believes only provides flitting, false security though. A chance DNA test – one of those ubiquitous discover-your-family-tree packages so prevalent online – reveals that what she thought she knew is all wrong. She is not her father’s daughter. Her sister is not, biologically, her sibling. She is not 100% Ashkenazi Jew, as she had always been told, [...]

Maybe I've got multiverse myopia... Author:  Sean M. Carroll It’s gained a certain notoriety.  In the public eye, quantum physics has become virtually synonymous with the bizarre.  It’s so weird, that even its most prominent proponents often admit that they don’t really understand it.  They may even go on to accuse their colleagues of being mistaken if they claim they do.  Maybe there is nothing as bizarre as the idea that every time some quantum event occurs at the subatomic level, the universe splits in two, creating endless replicas of every animate – or inanimate – thing.  The idea that [...]

Cozy Christmas in Mitford Author: Jan Karon Christmas in Mitford is just around the corner and Father Tim is finding renewed happiness in an old memory – one of the few good memories of his own father. It centers on the peaceful preparations of Christmas and a nativity set, every day moving the wise men closer to the manager across the living room, thinking about their ultimate journey to an infant who brings love and grace into the world. As Christmas gets closer and Father Tim is lost to the bliss of snow, his good dog, and his loving wife, [...]