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What Happens When You Meditate
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What Happens When You Meditate

How becoming more present changes your brain, and ways to get started.

by Rachel Lit

Biblio File: What to Read Now — March 2023
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Biblio File: What to Read Now — March 2023

New releases that inspire us.

Book Review: Critical Mass
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Book Review: Critical Mass

New and Notable

by Albert M. Camarillo

The Science of Skin
Features

The Science of Skin

Chemical engineer Zhenan Bao strives to re-create nature’s ultimate electronic system: skin.

by Sam Scott

What You Don’t Know About the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden
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What You Don’t Know About the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden

Artists’ visit to campus ‘flipped the script’ on anthropological field work.

by Tracie White

Meet Stanford’s First Black Administrator
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Meet Stanford’s First Black Administrator

Sam McDonald came to campus to build roads and departed with one named after him.

by Sam Scott