Holly Golightly Was an Emotion to Color Synesthete In 1958 when Truman Capote published the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Time magazine declared its heroine Holly Golightly, “the hottest kitten ever to hit the typewriter keys” of Mr. Capote. “She’s a cross between a grown-up Lolita and a teen-age Auntie Mame…

By William C Bushell, Ph.D., Eddie Stern, and Maureen Seaberg When oxygen levels in people’s blood drop dangerously low, they will usually become short of breath; they will likely become alarmed and seek emergency help. However, in COVID-19, the virus often compromises the sensorium, the seat of the senses, so…

By Maureen Seaberg In her luminous essay on COVID-19 for the Financial Times in the spring, Arundhati Roy said the pandemic is a portal. Through history, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew, she wrote. And this one is no different. “It is…

A procedural and visionary book written ten years ago could show the way forward By Maureen Seaberg Jack L. Colwell and Charles “Chip” Huth tried to tell us a decade ago. Policing is about building relationships in a community and having respect for all citizens, regardless of whether they’ve “earned…

By Maureen Seaberg In late September 2018, a lone monarch butterfly sailed past the picture window beside the desk at my home office. I felt an overwhelming wave of sadness as it drifted down the corridor between my house and my next-door neighbor’s in New York City — alongside lilacs…

The Safe and Proven Practices Have Anti-Inflammatory, Immunity-Boosting and Anti-Stress Benefits, Even for Beginners, Says the World-Class Team Led by Dr. Deepak Chopra and Top Scientists By Maureen Seaberg At a time when every hospital bed counts, experts led by Dr. Deepak Chopra have joined forces to make the public…

The only known nesting pair of bald eagles in New York City is the ultimate example of the raptors’ comeback in America By MAUREEN SEABERG It is fitting that they like to perch atop the steeple cross of Old St. Joaquim and St. Anne’s R.C. Church at Mount Loretto on…

By Maureen Seaberg “It was a Rosetta Stone moment; I felt like we had broken the code.” The recent correspondence from Kristopher Jake Patten, Ph.D., an affable and brilliant scientist studying the senses at Arizona State University, was epic. I realized I may be witnessing scientific history. Late last year…

By MAUREEN SEABERG In the summer of 2018, I had the privilege of documenting a rare white fawn living in New York City for National Geographic.