Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaBees Grammy Award-Winning Jazz Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant Reads Audre Lorde’s Poignant Poem “The Bees” Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria PopovaBees hum the essential harmonics in the symphony of life — crucial pollinators responsible for our planet’s diversity, responsible for the flourishing of the entire food chain, responsible even for Earth’s
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaPoetrySpell to Be Said against Hatred: Amanda Palmer Reads Poet Jane Hirshfield’s Miniature Masterwork of Insistence, Persistence, Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“When we come to it,” Maya Angelou beckoned in her stunning cosmic vision for humanity, “when the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate…” Then, she bent the mind in language to remind us, and only
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaChildren's Books The Osbick Bird: Edward Gorey’s Tender and Surprising Vintage Illustrated Allegory About the Meaning of True Love Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria PopovaGreat loves, like great works of art, live at the crossing point of the improbable and the inevitable. That, at least, has been my experience, both as a scholar of history and as a private participant
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaNew York PhilharmonicThrush Song: A Stunning Harmonic Tribute to Rachel Carson’s Courage by Composer Paola Prestini and the Young People’s Chorus Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“All the loveliness that is in nature came to me with such a surge of deep happiness.” In 2019, the New York Philharmonic commissioned composer and force of nature Paola Prestini — co-founder of National
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaStephen Hawking When Did Time Really Begin? The Little Loophole in the Big Bang Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria PopovaA pleasurable warping of the figuring faculty to contemplate what was there before the before. “Time says ‘Let there be,'” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote shortly before her death in her splendid “Hymn to Time,”
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaCulturePoet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Gorgeous Letter to Children About Reading, Amazement, and the Exhilaration of Discovering Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria PopovaA celebration of the delicious enchantment of the very first time. I remember the feeling of first seeing the Moon through the small handheld telescope my father had smuggled from East Germany — how ancient
