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A Northwestern Student Took Her Own Life. Is a Sorority to Blame?
The death of Jordan Hankins is an unusual case of potential campus hazing, but the fallout is following a familiar pattern.
'I'M A LIT UP TELEPHONE BOOTH'
Visions Of The Afterlife
For the mediums of the Lily Dale spiritualist community, the frontier between the living and the dead is easily entered. The only difference is how they open the door.
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
Here Are The Ways Nature Could Wipe Out Humanity
Asteroids, gamma rays and super-volcanoes are all exceptionally rare but could be catastrophic if they happened.
REFLECTIONS ON ACCOUNTABILITY
Why Do We Speak Ill Of The Dead?
For people who exercise great power, accountability after death is a small price to pay.
CAUSE FOR TSUNAMI NOT YET IDENTIFIED
Tsunami In Indonesia Kills Over 280, With No Warning Or Quake
More than 1,000 people were injured by the enormous wave, which also destroyed hundreds of buildings. Officials put the number of people still missing at 57.
FAREWELL FLIERS
Inside The Private Event Dove Industry
The radiant white homing pigeons who've become in-demand entertainers at weddings and funerals alike, and the man who loves them.
Death is no leveller if some live much longer than others – Keith Frankish | Aeon Ideas
Death was the great leveller, but new life-extension technologies will widen the gap between the haves and havenots
