Maria Popova
Reader. Writer. Bicycle-dependent. Author of "Figuring."
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Renascence: Edna St. Vincent Millay Today
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A spirited reading of Edna St.
Maria Popova Ooh. Next week, is hosting a spirited reading of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry by some of the great poets of our time, free and open to the public Also savor astrophysicist 's stunning reading of "Renascence" 42h
Greta Thunberg: I have a dream that the powerful will take the climate crisis seriously
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In a highly anticipated speech in Congress after travelling half the way across the Atlantic by boat, Greta Thunberg urges US senators to learn from the sacrifices of Martin Luther King and other civil rights activists in the fight against climate...
Artificial Intelligence Takes On Earthquake Prediction
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After successfully predicting laboratory earthquakes, a team of geophysicists has applied a machine learning algorithm to quakes in the Pacific Northwest.
Maria Popova This is astonishing. A mere half century ago, earthquakes were largely mysterious, with a handful of scientists studying them. Now, we've built an artificial intelligence able to predict them 46h
An Illustrated Ode to Attentiveness and the Art of Listening as a Wellspring of Self-Understanding, Empathy for Others, and Reverence for the Loveliness of Life
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A sweet serenade to our shared belonging.
Maria Popova An illustrated ode to attentiveness and the art of listening as a wellspring of self-understanding, empathy for others, and reverence for the loveliness of life 24h
Maria Popova An illustrated ode to attentiveness and the art of listening as a wellspring of self-understanding, of empathy for others, of reverence for the loveliness of life 49h
Maria Popova An illustrated ode to attentiveness and the art of listening as a wellspring of self-understanding, of empathy for others, of reverence for the loveliness of life 3d
Uncommon Wisdom from a Forgotten Genius: Olga Jacoby’s Extraordinary Letters on Love, Life, Death, Moral Courage, and Spiritual Purpose Without Religion
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“Love, like strength and courage, is a strange thing; the more we give the more we find we have to give.”
Maria Popova "Live, live keenly, live fully; make ample use of every power that has been given us…Blind yourself to nothing; look straight at sadness, loss, evil; but at the same time look with such intense delight at all that is good and noble..." Lost genius, found 2h
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Maria Popova "Live, live keenly, live fully; make ample use of every power that has been given us... Blind yourself to nothing; look straight at sadness, loss, evil; but at the same time look with such intense delight at all that is good and noble." Superb lost find 3d
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Maria Popova “Love, like strength and courage, is a strange thing; the more we give the more we find we have to give.” 100 years later, the letters of the forgotten spiritual genius and right-to-die pioneer Olga Jacoby come to life with coruscating relevance 4d
Libros Para El Viaje – Border Servant Corps
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Maria Popova Books at the border. What a splendid idea. 5d
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Absolutely incredible footage of a self-inflating octopus, for another reminder that this is Earth’s most wondrously alien creature.  (via kottke)
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Maria Popova Absolutely incredible footage of a self-inflating octopus 5d
Chaos, Time, and the Origin of Everything: Stephen Fry on How Ancient Greek Mythology and Modern Science Meet to Illuminate the Cradle of Being
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Inside the “grand cosmic yawn” that gave us everything we’ve ever known (including the word “cosmos” itself).
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Maria Popova This is really fantastic: Greek mythology as a lens on chaos theory and evolutionary biology 19h
Maria Popova Greek mythology, chaos theory, and evolutionary biology 5d
Maria Popova Chaos, time, and the origin of everything – on how ancient Greek mythology and modern science meet to illuminate the cradle of being 6d
Must See: National Geographic Adventure Greg Harlow Media Yosemite Falls Rainbow
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Yosemite Falls Rainbow This footage of rainbow mist rolling off Yosemite Falls is truly mesmerizing. Greg Harlow captured this previously undocumented rare o...
Maria Popova I feel super sad for the two people who thumbs-downed this video (HT ) 6d
Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory
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For the first time, researchers have created a scale model of the twisting loops of the sun’s magnetic field.
Maria Popova This is pretty incredible: The dazzling plasma of the Sun, kneaded by its magnetic field, recreated in a laboratory on Earth 6d
Einstein on Fairy Tales and Education
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“How far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.”
Maria Popova "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales." The full story behind Einstein's famous (possible mis-)quote about fairy tales and education 6d
A Pioneering Case for the Value of Citizen Science from the Polymathic Astronomer John Herschel
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“There is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge.”
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Maria Popova A pioneering case for the value of citizen science from the polymathic 19th-century astronomer John Herschel (who coined the word "photography") — completely and courageously countercultural in his era 7d
How to Raise a Child: 10 Rules from Young Susan Sontag
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Be consistent. Always speak well of his pop. Do not discourage childish fantasies.
Maria Popova "1. Be consistent. 8. Do not discourage childish fantasies." How to raise a child – 10 rules from young single mom Susan Sontag 7d
Women of Science Tarot Deck
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Modern, feminist tarot cards funded with Kickstarter. This unique tarot deck includes inspirational women who changed the course of science history. It's a card game that helps us tell stories about our future based on principles of science.
Maria Popova Oh hello there, splendid new tarot deck celebrating trailblazing women in science. (Yours can be yours here: ) 7d
Ynes Mexia - Wikipedia
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Maria Popova I love that today's Google doodle celebrates the Mexican-American botanist Ynes Mexia, "arguably the most accomplished plant collector of her time" (I think of her as the Mary Anning of botany All we need is a poem.) 7d
Kahlil Gibran on children and the parent's task, the story of the first surviving Moon photograph and the visionary 30-year-old who took it, and more
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Maria Popova Weekly highlights: Wisdom on parenting from Kahlil Gibran, the first surviving Moon photograph and the story of 30-year-old visionary who made it, stunning 19th-century illustrations of owls, and more 7d
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Diane Ackerman on What Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline Taught Her About the Human Spirit
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“So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself.”
Maria Popova “So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself.” On #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, on what working at a suicide prevention hotline taught her about the human spirit 12d
The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon: John Adams Whipple and How the Birth of Astrophotography Married Immortality and Impermanence
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A dual serenade to being and non-being, composed in glass, metal, and stardust.
Maria Popova This is the first surviving photograph of the Moon. 30-year-old John Adams Whipple took it through Harvard's Great Refractor in 1852, blazing the dawn of astrophotography and revolutionizing our orientation to the ephemeral and the eternal 8d
Maria Popova As we point our tiny iPhones at tonight's #HarvestMoon, astonishing to remember that photography has only been around for a blink of geologic time. Here is the story of the first surviving Moon photograph and the visionary 30-year-old who took it: 9d
Maria Popova This is the first surviving photograph of the Moon. John Adams Whipple, born on this day in 1822, took it through Harvard's Great Refractor in 1852, blazing the dawn of astrophotography and revolutionizing our orientation to the ephemeral and the eternal 12d
Stay: The Social Contagion of Suicide and How to Preempt It
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“We are indebted to one another and the debt is a kind of faith — a beautiful, difficult, strange faith. We believe each other into being.”