It was 1998 and Marcos Duran was a 14-year-old high school freshman in San Jose, in a student body of nearly 4,000 students. On this particular day in the school’s main gym, he watched a group of 30 ...

Social singing and dance are often assumed to be hard-wired into the human condition; studies have supported the conclusion that these are common across cultures. But new research from an ...

The ancient human ritual celebrates the synthesis of the body and the soul. Civilizations have embraced stylized movement for centuries as a vital life force, a spiritual experience, an offering to ...

Did Sir Isaac Newton destroy the beauty of the rainbow by explaining it? Yes, he did. Because of Newton we no longer believe that a rainbow is the shaft of light projected from a pot of gold, or the ...

You might think it's an easy question to answer. It isn't. Not for me. It took a whole book! Seven chapters! Yet it is also true that themes of those chapters spiral around one another, forming a ...