Life The Pioneering Queer Composer and Defiant Genius Ethel Smyth on Making Music While Going Deaf – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 12, 2021 by Jeremy January 12, 2021 “Tell me nothing of rest,” the young Beethoven bellowed when he began losing his hearing,… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Stunning 19th-Century Illustrations from the World’s First Pictorial Encyclopedia of Mollusks – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 10, 2021 by Jeremy January 10, 2021 A century-old annual report by one of the greatest public-good institutions our civilization has produced… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Poet and Philosopher George Santayana on the Formation and Confirmation of Our Standards and Sensibilities – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 7, 2021 by Jeremy January 7, 2021 In the 1850s, Emily Dickinson’s passionate first love shaped her uncommon body of work for… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life A Soulful Italian Illustrated Meditation on How to Live with Our Human Fragility – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 6, 2021 by Jeremy January 6, 2021 “To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Toni Morrison on the Body as an Instrument of Joy, Sanity, and Self-Love – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 3, 2021 by Jeremy January 3, 2021 Thinking lately about what it means to have the right heart, which intimates the question… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life A True Story – Brain Pickings by Jeremy January 2, 2021 by Jeremy January 2, 2021 Great children’s books move young hearts, yes, but they also move the great common heart… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Spare, Stunning Meditation on the Mystery of Being – Brain Pickings by Jeremy December 31, 2020 by Jeremy December 31, 2020 What is it about the human animal that impels us to interrupt the elemental elegance… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life The Best of Brain Pickings 2020 – Brain Pickings by Jeremy December 29, 2020 by Jeremy December 29, 2020 A glance over the shoulder of time to reveal the patterns, themes, and ideas that… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Physicist Brian Greene Reads and Reflects on Rilke’s Profoundest Elegy – Brain Pickings by Jeremy December 26, 2020 by Jeremy December 26, 2020 In the bleak winter of 1922, a “hurricane of the spirit” swept the ailing and… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Life Poet Diane Ackerman on the Spirituality of Wonder Without Religion – Brain Pickings by Jeremy December 24, 2020 by Jeremy December 24, 2020 Some years ago, at a gathering exploring our human search for meaning through a kaleidoscope… Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
