You are in a terrible accident. Your body is fatally injured, as are the brains of your two identical-triplet brothers. Your brain is divided into two halves, and into each brother’s body one half is successfully…

The current issue of The New Yorker features a lengthy profile of the Dalai Lama entitled “The Next Incarnation,” written by Evan Osnos. After listening to a podcast with Osnos in which he talks about the…