25 Feb,2022 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“For this we go out dark nights, searching… for signs of unseen things… Let there be swarms of them, enough for immortality, always a star where we can warm ourselves.” This is the fourth of nine installments in the 2021/2022 animated season of...
18 Feb,2022 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“Mingle the starlight with your lives, and you won’t be fretted by trifles.” This is the third of nine installments in the 2021/2022 animated season of The Universe in Verse — a celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science...
3 Apr,2021 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
To be human is to live suspended between the scale of snails and the scale of stars, confined by our creaturely limitations but not doomed by them — we have, after all, transcended them to compose the Benedictus and eradicate smallpox and land a mechanical prosthesis...
24 Jun,2020 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
A poetic instrument for observing and redrawing the spectrum of privilege and possibility. In 1977, the poet Adrienne Rich exhorted a graduating class of young women to think of education not as something one receives but as something one claims. But what does an...
