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- 03/29/2020 - An antidote to helplessness and disorientation: Erich Fromm on our fragility as the key to sanity and survival, Whitman's ode to our interleaved lives
- 03/22/2020 - Today, Another Universe: Jane Hirshfield's perspectival poem of consolation by calibration; Rebecca Solnit on growing whole; transcendence in tragedy
- 03/15/2020 - “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
- 03/08/2020 - Walt Whitman on women's centrality to democracy; stunning art from the world's first encyclopedia of deep-sea cephalopods; remembering Freeman Dyson
- 03/07/2020 - A very (very!) special announcement: "The Universe in Verse" is going West! (April 18, California)
- 03/01/2020 - A touching animated short film about depression and what it takes to recover the light of being; poet Lisel Mueller on what gives meaning to our lives
- 02/23/2020 - What it takes to grow up and what it means to have grown; Marcus Aurelius in love; physicist Brian Greene on our cosmic search for meaning
- 02/19/2020 - Midweek pick-me-up: Against self-criticism – the Stockholm syndrome of the psyche, how our internal critics enslave us, and how to break free
- 02/16/2020 - Inner wholeness, our greatest obstacle to happiness, and the body as the seedbed of a flourishing soul; the enchantment of cacti; the bilingual mind
- 02/09/2020 - How to live and how to die, Patti Smith on libraries and the transformative power of reading, a poetic Victorian encyclopedia of lessons from flowers
- 02/02/2020 - Music, loneliness, and transcendence; an 18th-century woman's illustrated encyclopedia of medicinal plants; the heartbreak of Hans Christian Andersen
- 01/26/2020 - A soulful animated short film about loss and the unbreakable bonds of love; Thoreau on the true value of a tree; the stunning photomicroscopy of snow
- 01/19/2020 - What to do when the world gets you down; Mary Shelley's father on parenting and how an early love of reading paves the path to happiness; and more
- 01/12/2020 - Gorgeous illustrations from the world's first encyclopedia of trees, Kahlil Gibran on time, Neil Gaiman reads his humanistic poem for refugees
- 01/05/2020 - The art of centering; Krista Tippett reads a mathematical-existential poem about the interconnectedness of the cosmos; a Solar System quilt from 1876
- 12/30/2019 - The best of Brain Pickings 2019
- 12/29/2019 - How Kepler invented science fiction and defended his mother in a witchcraft trial while revolutionizing our understanding of the universe
- 12/22/2019 - Dostoyevsky, just after his death sentence was repealed, on the meaning of life; Sarah Kay reads Walt Whitman; David Abram on the language of nature
- 12/20/2019 - Annual Special: Favorite Books of 2019
- 12/16/2019 - Annual special: Favorite children's books of 2019
