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How scientific wonder brings comfort to life and death

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This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist’s Path from Grief to Wonder is a new memoir.

Author Alan Townsend writes about his wife and daughter being diagnosed with brain cancer.

He says science as a way of being in the worldcurious, awe-filled, humble that will give you strength in the darkest hours.

Scientific curiosity can be nourishing, but like spiritual faith, it requires some basic knowledge.

You don’t need a Ph.D. in neuroscience to appreciate the wonders of the brain.

In the best of times, embracing curiosity, complexity, and uncertainty can be invigorating.