Issue 01 · Origins

Exploring identity through culture, story, and science.

A digital magazine for students and young creatives from the heart of Central Asia.

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The Lab

The Default Mode Network and the Wandering Self

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The Lab

Mirror Neurons and the Architecture of Empathy

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Field Notes

The Languages That Shape What We Can Feel

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Essays · Cover

I Am Not the Same Person I Was Ten Years Ago. Am I?

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We are shaped by the stories we inherit and the ones we choose to tell.

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Culture

How we are made by the worlds we inhabit — and how we remake those worlds in turn.

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Essays

Personal reckoning. Intellectual honesty. Writing that risks something.

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Neuroscience

What the brain reveals about consciousness, emotion, memory, and the self.

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