Life Frida Kahlo’s Passionate Love Letter to Photographer Nickolas Muray, Who Took Her Most Famous Portrait – Brain Pickings by Jeremy February 12, 2021 by Jeremy February 12, 2021 In the hottest month of 1913, the Stockinger Printing Company in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, hired as… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life The Decades-Old Classic That Became the Ultimate Pandemic Poem – Brain Pickings by Jeremy February 1, 2021 by Jeremy February 1, 2021 I will never forget the day I first encountered, in the midst of heartache, “One… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Jeanette Winterson on Why We Read – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 31, 2021 by Jeremy January 31, 2021 “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us,” Kafka wrote to… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life A Stunning Animated Poem About Our Connection to Nature and Each Other – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 30, 2021 by Jeremy January 30, 2021 In a lovely echo of Richard Feynman’s Ode to a Flower — his timeless, poetic… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Confucius on Good Government, the 6 Steps to a Harmonious Society, and Self-Discipline as the Key to Democracy – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 27, 2021 by Jeremy January 27, 2021 Two and a half millennia before Leonard Cohen wrote in his timeless and tender ode… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life The Inspiring Illustrated Story of How Edwin Hubble Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Universe – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 24, 2021 by Jeremy January 24, 2021 In 1908, Henrietta Swan Leavitt — one of the women known as the Harvard Computers,… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Einstein on the Political Power of Art – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 22, 2021 by Jeremy January 22, 2021 “Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify,” Iris… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life What the Mysterious Color-Markings on Storm Drains Have to Do with Rachel Carson’s Legacy and the War on a Deadly Virus – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 21, 2021 by Jeremy January 21, 2021 I noticed them first in my neighborhood — dots of paint hovering over the grate… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Loops, the Limits of Language, the Paradoxical Loneliness of “I Love You,” and What Keeps Love Alive – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 19, 2021 by Jeremy January 19, 2021 When I walk — which I do every day, as basic sanity-maintenance, whether in the… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life A Stunning Illustrated Celebration of Nature’s Rarest Color – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 15, 2021 by Jeremy January 15, 2021 Blue, Rebecca Solnit wrote in one of humanity’s most beautiful reflections on our planet’s primary… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
