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- 06/28/2020 - Keith Haring and his irrepressible art of hope, unforgetting the pioneer who became America's first internationally celebrated black artist, and more
- 06/21/2020 - 200 years of beloved writers on nature as an antidote to depression, Leibniz on how difference dignifies the world, and more
- 06/20/2020 - A small coruscating delight: vintage science face masks
- 06/14/2020 - Moomins creator Tove Jansson's gorgeous letters to the love of her life; the science of when time really began; Audre Lorde's poignant poem "The Bees"
- 06/07/2020 - Spell to be said against hatred, the illustrated story of astronaut Ronald McNair's childhood civil disobedience, Octavio Paz on otherness and courage
- 05/31/2020 - Edward Gorey's illustrated 1969 poem about the secret of true love, a stunning musical tribute to Rachel Carson, Ann Druyan on wonder and the sacred
- 05/24/2020 - Viktor Frankl's lost lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find life's deepest meaning; James Baldwin on keeping the light alive & more
- 05/16/2020 - David Byrne's buoyant countercultural hymn of optimism, resistance, and resilience; Sophie Scholl on courage; stunning Great Barrier Reef illustration
- 05/10/2020 - A spellbinding reading of Hermann Hesse's 100-year-old love letter to trees, a Chilean picture-book about life and death, an ode to love beyond labels
- 05/03/2020 - Astronaut Leland Melvin reads Neruda's love letter to Earth's forests, a color spectrum of sadnesses as a portal to more vibrant aliveness, and more
- 04/26/2020 - James Baldwin on how to live through your darkest hour of despair, poet Marie Howe's cosmic serenade to home, physicist Brian Greene on mortality
- 04/24/2020 - TOMORROW! The Universe in Verse — feast your soul on poems reverencing the science and splendor of nature, starring Patti Smith, Neil Gaiman, and more
- 04/18/2020 - Mary Shelley, writing 200 years ago about a pandemic-ravaged world, on what makes life worth living and nature's beauty as a lifeline to sanity
- 04/12/2020 - The (virtual) Universe in Verse 2020—a poetic lifeline starring Eve Ensler, Patti Smith, Neil Gaiman, Rosanne Cash, Rebecca Solnit, Tim Ferriss & more
- 04/11/2020 - Antidotes to fear of death from an astrophysicist & a poet, Anne Lamott's wondrous letter to kids about why we read, Newton's quarantine breakthrough
- 04/05/2020 - Stillness as a form of action; Virginia Woolf on finding beauty in uncertainty; lessons on survival, sanity, and connection from the 1964 earthquake
- 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
