"Have you seen the bubble room?" I stood in that spectacular corner of the high-rise building with an impressive view of the city below. I took pictures to remember the place. But as I walked away, I ...

Source: Shannon Nicholson/Used With Permission Consider, trauma isn’t just a memory—it’s also a physiological loop. This might be a new way to think about trauma for you. Experiences don't live just ...

There’s a leadership model I often use in my talks and workshops, and in my book, All Physicians Lead. It’s a hierarchical structure graphically represented as concentric circles. (I’ll do a future ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...