Life Aldous Huxley on Knowledge vs. Understanding and the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness – Brain Pickings by Jeremy May 12, 2021 by Jeremy May 12, 2021 To understand anything — another person’s experience of reality, another fundamental law of physics —… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible – Brain Pickings by Jeremy May 8, 2021 by Jeremy May 8, 2021 Frida Kahlo painted a hummingbird into her fiercest self-portrait. Technology historian Steven Johnson drew on… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Keith Haring on Art and Our Humanity – Brain Pickings by Jeremy May 4, 2021 by Jeremy May 4, 2021 “Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world,” artist Egon Schiele wrote in… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life The Mysterious Origins of the World’s Most Famous City Moniker – Brain Pickings by Jeremy May 3, 2021 by Jeremy May 3, 2021 On May 3, 1921, John J. Fitz Gerald — a sports journalist for the New… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life David Whyte on the Power of Poetry and Silence as Portal to Presence – Brain Pickings by Jeremy April 30, 2021 by Jeremy April 30, 2021 Poetry interrupts the momentum of story, unweaves the narrative thread with which we cocoon our… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Redeeming an Overlooked Pioneer of Conservation – Brain Pickings by Jeremy April 29, 2021 by Jeremy April 29, 2021 It is 1928 and you are walking in Central Park, saxophone and wren song in… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Poet A. Van Jordan Imagines the Undelivered Feynman Lecture About the Mystery Lying Between Scientific Truth and Human Meaning – Brain Pickings by Jeremy April 28, 2021 by Jeremy April 28, 2021 It is dazzling enough to live with the knowledge that everything around us — the… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life 5 Benefits of Knockdown Rebuild by Jeremy April 26, 2021 by Jeremy April 26, 2021 Like setting resolutions at the start of a new year, there’s something great about a… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Notes on Building Paradise – Brain Pickings by Jeremy April 24, 2021 by Jeremy April 24, 2021 “The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Ornithologist and Wildlife Ecologist J. Drew Lanham on Nature as Worship – Brain Pickings by Jeremy April 22, 2021 by Jeremy April 22, 2021 “Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
