Life The Ultimate Animated Primer on the Most Successful Model of Reality in the History of Humanity and Its Fertile Limits – Brain Pickings by Jeremy July 24, 2021 by Jeremy July 24, 2021 How the gaps in gravity contour the next frontiers in the quest to understand the… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Biomimicry Pioneer Janine Benyus on the Power of Reciprocity in Nature and Our Human Future – Brain Pickings by Jeremy July 22, 2021 by Jeremy July 22, 2021 In 1977, a young forestry student tasked with marking an ironwood tree for “release cutting”… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life The Daring Life and Art of Pioneering Plant Ecologist Edith Clements – Brain Pickings by Jeremy July 22, 2021 by Jeremy July 22, 2021 “There is one book that I would rather have produced than all my novels,” Willa… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Willa Cather on Attention and Sensory Presence as Key to Creativity – Brain Pickings by Jeremy July 19, 2021 by Jeremy July 19, 2021 “Her voice is deep, rich, and full of color; she speaks with her whole body,… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Can People Change? The Psychological Möbius Strip That Keeps Us from Ending Painful Relationships – Brain Pickings by Jeremy July 17, 2021 by Jeremy July 17, 2021 “Across the morning sky, all the birds are leaving,” Nina Simone sang in 1969. “How… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Hannah Arendt on What Forgiveness Really Means – Brain Pickings by Jeremy July 14, 2021 by Jeremy July 14, 2021 “To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt,”… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s Advice on Writing, Discipline, and the Two Driving Forces of Creativity – Brain Pickings by Jeremy July 11, 2021 by Jeremy July 11, 2021 “A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Luscious 19th-Century French Botanical Illustrations of the Most Vibrant Flora of the Americas – Brain Pickings by Jeremy July 9, 2021 by Jeremy July 9, 2021 To put our familiar lives in perspective and jolt us awake to the wonder of… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Poet Jane Hirshfield on the Magic and Power of Metaphor, Animated – Brain Pickings by Jeremy July 7, 2021 by Jeremy July 7, 2021 “A metaphor is language that simultaneously creates and solves its own riddle; within that minute… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life John Coltrane on Perseverance Against Rejection, the Innovator’s Mindset, and How Hardship Fuels Art – Brain Pickings by Jeremy July 6, 2021 by Jeremy July 6, 2021 To create anything of beauty, daring, and substance that makes the world see itself afresh… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
