Newsletters

Introduction to Neuroscience — Issue 1

Hello all, welcome to this new weekly newsletter where I will endeavour to describe and make more accessible neuroscientific and oncological knowledge and findings.

Newsletters

Welcome to Neuroscience and Oncology with Isaac

Clear perspectives at the frontiers of neuroscience and oncology.

Competitions

Announcing NH x Yaffa Media 2025 Photography Competition

This October, Ninth Heaven opens its first photography competition.

Philosophy & Ethics

Do Only I Exist: Some Not-so-Solipsistic Views

Exploring Husserl and Wittgenstein on solipsism: is reality only mine, or shared through intersubjectivity, language, and experience?

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

A Liberal Case for Natural Law

Is law fundamentally natural or man-made? Are there constraints on possible law beyond whatever governments can enforce with threats of violence? Does rule of law, not men, have any meaning if laws are always enforced and interpreted by men?

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: What Durkheim Dreams About

“What Durkheim Dreams About” is a poem I wrote while taking a sociology class and having to read excerpts from Durkheim’s Suicide. I disliked his approach to life and wrote this poem inspired by that, as sort of a subversion and way to try to empathize with what he was saying.

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: Five Poems by Sreelekha Chatterjee

My mind experiences an emotional barrenness, resembling an empty terrace. An empty seat is forever there, indicating an absence, perhaps a spiritual emptiness.

Literature & Poetry

POEM: When the Body Breaks

When the Body Breaks” explores physical illness as a spiritual unraveling that nonetheless makes space for reverence. This poem exists in the tension between alienation and awe, asking what it means to carry pain with dignity and whether the soul’s transformations might be holy in their fragility

Philosophy & Ethics

On Beauty

Can we make objective judgments of beauty? Is beauty only in the eye of the beholder? The following essay argues that we can indeed make objective judgments of beauty, although beauty itself is nothing other than a kind of subjective experience of pleasure.

Culture & Identity

Beauty and the Grotesque: How Art Speaks to the Self

Great art can help us experience our most fundamental humanity.