Chances are you’ve read a book by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist monk who popularized mindfulness in the West. Through his writing and teaching, he has helped millions of people appreciate the benefits of being present in the moment. In ill health at 92, Thich Nhat Hanh has now returned to Vietnam to prepare to die. As devotees visit to pay their last respects, assistant professor of religious studies Brooke Schedneck considers Thich Nhat Hanh’s contribution to the “mindfulness movement.”

A second jury has concluded that Monsanto’s widely used Roundup herbicide was a “substantial factor” in a plaintiff’s cancer diagnosis, and now will consider whether Monsanto should pay damages. University of Connecticut epidemiologist Richard “Bugs” Stevens sees parallels between the processes that lawyers and scientists use to try to prove this kind of connection, but also a major disconnect: Sometimes jurors have to reach verdicts about potentially dangerous products before the science is settled.

Native Americans along the U.S.-Mexico border are rallying against President Donald Trump’s border wall proposal. The traditional homelands of 36 federally recognized tribes – including the Kumeyaay, O’odham and Apache peoples – were split in two in 1853, when the Gadsden Purchase carved modern-day California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas out of northern Mexico. So while many Native Americans see the border as an “invisible line,” writes Colorado College anthropologist Christina Leza, a wall would make it all too real.