Brain Pickings - Broad Nib News Aggregator

Brain Pickings

The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay

The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay

1 month ago 3

Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup

Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Brea...

1 month ago 5

Are You Working: In Defense of the Invisible Labors of Creativitiy

Are You Working: In Defense of the Invisible Labor...

1 month ago 5

The Stoic Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Time Spent vs. Saved vs. Wasted

The Stoic Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on T...

1 month ago 5

The Coziest Place on the Moon: Or, How to Bear Your Loneliness

The Coziest Place on the Moon: Or, How to Bear You...

1 month ago 5

On Losing a Parent

On Losing a Parent

1 month ago 5

Actuality vs. Possibility and How to Hear the Signal of Your Life

Actuality vs. Possibility and How to Hear the Sign...

1 month ago 5

The Canon of Solitude: 200 Years of Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness

The Canon of Solitude: 200 Years of Great Writers,...

1 month ago 5

How to Promise and How to Keep Promises from Breaking

How to Promise and How to Keep Promises from Break...

1 month ago 7

Virginia Woolf on Creativity

Virginia Woolf on Creativity

1 month ago 5

J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life

J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life

1 month ago 5

The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animated

The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic A...

1 month ago 4

Seneca on True and False Friendship

Seneca on True and False Friendship

1 month ago 5

The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil Came Back to Life to Bring Humanity Together in the Middle of Our Deadliest War

The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil...

1 month ago 5

The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World

The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with t...

1 month ago 7

A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life

A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendo...

1 month ago 6

Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood

Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We A...

1 month ago 5

The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch the Pulse of Life

The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch ...

1 month ago 5