Teaching is like conducting: Orchestras and school classes are both tense places characterized by authority, individualism and shortness of time. Conductor and university lecturer Graziella Contratto knows both worlds. How do
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The children love Marwin, his fearlessness, wildness and imagination. With his triangular face, prominent teeth, protruding ears and a covered eye, he could pass for a playful pirate. Most parents,
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For this family whose daughter suffers from multiple disabilities, the most effective therapy is 11 hours by plane and 8,000 kilometers away from the family’s home. The therapy costs alone
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Not many commercial buildings use their exterior to try to express what is going on inside. In Bolzano, Italy, a building does exactly that. Its exterior resembles a monolith of
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“If we’re lucky, it won’t stop snowing for the next 80 years. Don’t stop shaking it. That would be disastrous – for the snow globe. The worst thing that can
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The Enea Tree Museum in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, is a place for fine art, mature trees and thoughtful viewers to convene – or vice versa. What does a California sequoia tree need
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1995 was supposed to be a lucky year for Viorica Capsa and her husband Nicolae. The policeman and the saleswoman were expecting their first child together. In September 1995, their
Read moreJonas is ten years old. He has four kidneys and his spleen is too big. His other internal organs are hardly growing at all and their size is commensurate with
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Unless consulted in their capacity as physicians, men rarely have a say in reproductive medicine – even though, in their capacity as partners, they play an indispensible role in fertilization.
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