Features

Taking Command of Your Tech

Rich Fernandez of Google sits down with Irene Au of Udacity and Arturo Bejar of Facebook to talk about how to make digital technology work for us, not the other way around

Sidebar: Worn out from all this connectivity? Here’s how to handle it mindfully

Parenting with Presence

Reporter Susan Freinkel follows two expectant couples from their first class in mindfulness- based childbirth to the blessed (not to mention challenging) event.

Sidebar: Childbirth doesn’t answer to the clocks that run so much of our lives. And there’s a lesson in that for all of us

Tune In, Turn On

Can a profoundly deaf musician teach us to listen better? Katherine Ellison talks to percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who wants us to wake up to the soundscape that is always around us

Sidebar: Three approaches to appreciating the music of everyday life

Unfinished Work

It was the deadliest battle every fought on American soil. On its 150th anniversary, Barry Boyce reflects on what Gettysburg can still teach us—about what happens when we decide that fighting is our only choice