The Learning Project: Rites of Passage

What is it like to become fully human? Thirty-five people of all ages, from celebrated to unknown, from the pinnacle of success to the depths of failure recount lives of ecstasy, tragedy, confidence, and despair. Welcome your rites of passage because without them you are unchanged.

I was interested in science but didn’t know what it involved. So I went to speak to the best scientist I could find: Eugene Wigner, 1963 Nobel Laureate in quantum physics. He was tremendously excited to hear from...