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Human existence is a funny thing. We are smart. We are stupid. We are capable of breathtaking feats of beauty, heart wrenching moments of cruelty, and pure nihilism as we sit, glued to a rectangular square, watching video after video play, showing everything but teaching nothing. Some believe we are driven by power, some by pleasure. Viktor Frankl, however, explored our need for meaning. His was the suggestion that if we have a why, we can endure any what. Make us taskless, jobless animals and we expire. Provide our lives with a purpose, and we flourish.

<strong>Letters: </strong>Readers respond to Alex Blasdel’s long read on the studies of brain activity immediately after death

This week, we explore details about Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III’s recent “medical mystery,” and what it means.

Back in 2011, particle physicist Sean M. Carroll wrote a guest blog at Scientific American, dismissing the idea of life after death or the immortality of the soul. He began by responding to astrophysicist Adam Frank's reflections at NPR: For...

In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death