“…the Socrates who is now conversing and arranging the details of his argument is really I; [Crito] thinks I am the one whom he will presently see as a corpse ...

VIGO — Things were not going very well for Aleksandr Pushkin in the fall of 1836. He was deep in debt, expenses piling up and rumors were circulating about the private life of his wife, Natalia.

Terminal lucidity is a remarkable phenomenon often experienced by those who, through the process of disease or accident, have lost the cognitive capacity to interact with others. Scientist Michael ...