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- 01/24/2021 - Loops, language, the paradoxical loneliness of "I love you," and what keeps love alive; Einstein on the political power of art; expressionist science
- 01/17/2021 - The Blue Hour: stunning illustrated ode to nature's rarest color; pioneering composer and defiant genius Ethel Smyth on making music while going deaf
- 01/10/2021 - Why we like what we like, an illustrated meditation on how to live with our human fragility, Toni Morrison's recipe for sanity, joy, and self-love
- 01/02/2021 - The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story — revealing my children's book, a labor of love years in the secret making
- 12/29/2020 - Annual special: The best of Brain Pickings 2020, in 20 pieces
- 12/27/2020 - How to live with our human limitations: physicist Brian Greene reads Rilke; Beethoven on how music saved his life; to be an "Earth ecstatic"
- 12/24/2020 - A holiday gift: The Universe in Verse 2020 free limited-time rebroadcast
- 12/20/2020 - The radical act of letting things hurt and how (not) to help a friend in sorrow; the root of our strength in times of crisis; Whitman's ode to life
- 12/19/2020 - Annual special: Favorite books of 2020 (and a few thoughts on what makes a great book)
- 12/13/2020 - Robinson Jeffers on the key to peace of mind; control, chance, and how the psychology of poker illuminates the art of thriving through uncertainty
- 12/06/2020 - The 4 Buddhist mantras for turning fear into love; how Lincoln drew poetry and power from his suicidal depression; David Byrne, Maira Kalman, optimism
- 11/29/2020 - Alain de Botton on emotional generosity and the difficult art of charity of interpretation; creativity, the commonplace and the cosmic; Billy Collins
- 11/22/2020 - Muriel Rukeyser on the wellspring of our power and aliveness in turbulent times, a lyrical illustrated rewilding of the human heart, and more
- 11/15/2020 - Whitman on what makes a great person and what wisdom really means, Iris Murdoch on how art helps us reimagine freedom and our inner worlds, and more
- 11/08/2020 - Nietzsche on love, perseverance, and moving beyond good and evil; stunning indigenous Indian drawings of trees; James Baldwin on roots and reading
- 11/01/2020 - Octavia Butler on creative drive and how we become who we are, Teddy Roosevelt on the two pillars of citizenship, Dylan Thomas's cosmic ode to trees
- 10/25/2020 - The science of how alive you really are, with a side of Turing and trees; Audre Lorde on poetry and the courage to feel as an antidote to fear; more
- 10/23/2020 - 14th Anniversary Special: Essential life-learnings from 14 years of Brain Pickings
- 10/18/2020 - Bruce Lee on death and the key to being an artist of life, a Japanese illustrated serenade to change, Nobel laureate Louise Glück's love poem to life
- 10/11/2020 - A tender painted poem celebrating the wilderness and our capacity for love, trust, and hope; Emily Dickinson's uncommon life, illustrated; John Muir
