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Reading Dan Frank, Book Editor and ‘Champion of the Unexampled’ Alan Lightman, Janna Levin and others recall the editor who shaped their work and a literary genre. Plus, more reading recommendations in the Friday edition of the Science Times newsletter. Dan Frank was the invisible guiding hand to a constellation of literary science writers, helping to define and expand the genre. Credit...NASA Goddard Summer is basically here, and now is the moment to find a book to fall into. I encourage you to begin with almost any book published by Dan Frank, the editor at Pantheon and Knopf who...

Mystics and visionaries: A fine arts seminar The Weitzman School’s Jackie Tileston’s seminar looks at the ways in which alternative forms of knowledge have fed artistic practices, both in the past and for contemporary artists in cultures around the globe. (Pre-pandemic image) Exhibition view of Hilma af Klint’s “The Ten Largest” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, 2018. (Image: Courtesy of Ryan Dickey) Hilma af Klint was an early 20th century Swedish painter and spiritualist who began creating radically abs...

The Broadway stars explore how spirituality can offer solace in troubling times.

Rocio Montoya WOULD you like to be hooked up to a device that lets you detect magnetic fields like a bird? How about sensing infrared light like a snake? Perhaps a feed of real-time stock market data into your mind is more your sort of thing. According to David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Stanford University in California, it will soon be possible to make all this a reality. He has already created technologies along these lines, including a wristwatch-like device called Buzz that translates sound into patterns of vibration on the skin. Interpreting those vibrations effectively gives deaf pe...

falling to about 12,000 feet above Mother Earth, my typical speed had become 200-plus mph. To increase speed, I kept my body vertical. The tradeoff was that my line of vision was such that the ground could not be used to monitor closeness to the earth. To compensate, I developed a “sense” for when to transition to belly-to-Earth, to slow down and to deploy my parachute without blowing the thing up. “Actual” clock time in freefall was a smidge less than a minute. For me, however, in freefall, time was neither fast nor slow, it wasn’t there. It simply did not exist. Tha...