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The Cell vs. the Crystal: The Philosopher-Naturalist John Burroughs on What Makes a Great Poem and a Great Person

The Cell vs. the Crystal: The Philosopher-Naturali...

1 year ago 23

Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are

Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really A...

1 year ago 19

How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo

How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo

1 year ago 22

Ode to a Good Pen: Or, How to Write the Book of Love

Ode to a Good Pen: Or, How to Write the Book of Lo...

1 year ago 22

The Heart of the Andes and the Invention of Virtual Reality: Frederic Edwin Church’s Immersive 19th-century Paintings of Natural Wonders

The Heart of the Andes and the Invention of Virtua...

1 year ago 22

The Coziest Place on the Moon: An Illustrated Fable about How to Live with Loneliness and What It Means to Love, Inspired by a Real NASA Discovery

The Coziest Place on the Moon: An Illustrated Fabl...

1 year ago 23

Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success

Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success

1 year ago 21

Virginia Woolf on Love

Virginia Woolf on Love

1 year ago 18

By Contacts We Are Saved: The Forgotten Visionary Jane Ellen Harrison on Change, the Meaning of Faith, and the Courage of Heresy

By Contacts We Are Saved: The Forgotten Visionary ...

1 year ago 22

On Looking: Poet Lia Purpura on the Art of Noticing

On Looking: Poet Lia Purpura on the Art of Noticin...

1 year ago 21

Embodiment and the (Re)invention of Emoji, from the Aztecs to Humboldt and Darwin to AI

Embodiment and the (Re)invention of Emoji, from th...

1 year ago 18

A Heron, a Red Leaf, and a Hole in a Blue Star: Poet Jane Kenyon on the Art of Letting Go

A Heron, a Red Leaf, and a Hole in a Blue Star: Po...

1 year ago 19

Undersound: The Secret Lives of Ponds and the Mysterious Musicality of the World

Undersound: The Secret Lives of Ponds and the Myst...

1 year ago 18

Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: Pioneering Philosopher of AI Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity

Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: Pioneering Phil...

1 year ago 20

Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator

Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in L...

1 year ago 22

Rewilding the Human Spirit in the Age of Moral Colonialism: Brian Eno on Carnival as a Model for Saving Culture

Rewilding the Human Spirit in the Age of Moral Col...

1 year ago 25

Dawn: A Watercolor Ode to the Primeval Conversation Between Our Living Planet and Its Dying Star

Dawn: A Watercolor Ode to the Primeval Conversatio...

1 year ago 27

Wonder, Play, and How to Be More Alive

Wonder, Play, and How to Be More Alive

1 year ago 26