Welcome the new year with a hike, a sound bath, cocktail classes or a free bluegrass festival, or try creating your own art at a museum.

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

In October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes of clothing and about five dozen textbooks. I had a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in ...