Black clothing. Jewelry made from hair. Postmortem photos. Beneath the Victorian aesthetics was a radical idea: grief deserves to be seen.

A professor finds that teaching death and dying opens the door to difficult questions, challenged assumptions, and unexpected conversations about faith, meaning, and what it means to live.

An in conversation between GraveSite co-founder and editor-in-chief Delaney Rebernik and The Order of the Good Death’s executive director Sarah Chavez.

From old love letters to pieces of string, our homes are stuffed with stuff. When it comes time to empty a parent’s home, sorting the junk from the memory can be overwhelming

By Sarah Wildman

Remembering Adventure Landing, the theme park and entertainment center which opened in 1988, as Raleigh grapples with a loss of third spaces for teens.

On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.

Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?

A functional medicine doctor shares how to lean into wellness based on where — and when — you actually are.

In the fourth season, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise—led by Captain Christopher Pike—embarks on a series of thrilling and emotional adventures across the stars. As they journey to strange new worlds, they battle inner demons and external threats, encounter colorful new characters, reunite with familiar faces and confront terrifying aliens. Through it all, they strive to embrace a bright, hopeful future.

Cutting through the white-capped waves of the Seto Inland Sea is a one-of-kind “floating library”. This is Hon no Mori-go (ほんのもり号) created to give children living on remote islands the opportunity to discover books and nurture their creativity. Inside the ship are shelves lined with 2000

Going up against Christopher Nolan with AI slop was ill-advised.

📕 Read “Kiito, Finland: Notes on what opting in taught me about libraries, learning & myself” by Samantha Hull (KnowledgeQuest vol. 54 no. 5, May/June 2026, p. 15 - 17). Three highlights from Hull’s Fulbright research on how public libraries in Finland support grade schools: Librarians are not waiting to be invited. They are designing grade-specific offerings, proactively contacting schools, and embedding library visits into the rhythm of the school year.

One teacher offers wisdom to other teachers on how to care for yourself during the upcoming school year.

Alt: George Clooney as Danny Ocean says 'Yeah'

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Universities like UNC-Chapel Hill major cuts to research funding, but the pipeline for new grants is shrinking. Researchers have been left in limbo.

For years, I believed people avoided letter writing because they lacked time. But after teaching leadership, communication, and storytelling to thousands of students, I’ve come to believe something…