Articles in this Issue
Editors’ Note
Issue 23: When the heart stops, poetry by Luci Shaw, the glory of an orchestra, and Harriet Tubman.
Wonder on the Web
Issue 23: Links to amazing stuff
What Secret Purple Wisdom
‘un-terrestrial pulse, deep as heaven, that folds you’
Black Moses
The mystical faith and no-nonsense tactics of the Underground Railroad’s most famous leader.
The Precise Magic of the Symphony
The modern orchestra produces order out of chaos, and something beautiful for the heart.
Even Arteries Need a Sabbath
How the heart sustains itself over the 2.5 billion beats of a lifetime.