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- 07/21/2019 - Is there a God? Stephen Hawking answers the eternal question in his final book; altered states of consciousness: the science of time and self; & more
- 07/14/2019 - Amanda Palmer on how to get back up and keep running when life mows you down, the astonishing science of how trees communicate, relativity, and more
- 07/07/2019 - Middle age and the art of self-renewal, Keats on compassion, plus announcing a labor of love to help refugee kids
- 06/30/2019 - Thomas Bernhard on walking, thinking, and the paradox of self-reflection; a vintage illustrated ode to the wilderness; Langston Hughes on Nina Simone
- 06/23/2019 - Kahlil Gibran on friendship and the building blocks of meaningful connection, an illustrated dictionary of poetic spells reclaiming nature's language
- 06/16/2019 - Keats on depression and the mightiest consolation for a heavy heart, a 101-year-old Holocaust survivor reads Whitman's most buoyant verse, and more
- 06/09/2019 - Planting trees as resistance and empowerment: the illustrated story of the first African woman to win a Nobel; the love letters of Emerson and Fuller
- 06/02/2019 - Oliver Sacks on the healing power of gardens, 200 years of Walt Whitman, the author of "The Little Prince" on losing a friend, and more
- 05/26/2019 - An emotional intelligence primer in the form of a tender illustrated poem about our capacity for love, Marcus Aurelius's key to living fully, and more
- 05/19/2019 - Rebecca Solnit on love and living with purpose, Toni Morrison on writing and the transformative power of art, a lovely picture-book about the Moon
- 05/12/2019 - For anyone who has ever been ill, or will be ill, or has loved someone ill – which is pretty much all of us – Virginia Woolf on illness; and more.
- 05/05/2019 - Regina Spektor reads "Theories of Everything" by the Canadian astronomer, poet, and tragic genius Rebecca Elson, Oliver Sacks on libraries, and more
- 04/28/2019 - How freedom strengthens togetherness in long-term relationships, Amanda Palmer reads Adrienne Rich's tribute to the Hubble Space Telescope, and more
- 04/22/2019 - Earth Day special: Beautiful wisdom on our shared ecological responsibility from the woman whose courage inspired the creation of Earth Day
- 04/21/2019 - Seneca on how to live with presence and balance the existential calculus of time; Emily Dickinson on spring; physicist Freeman Dyson on creativity
- 04/20/2019 - The Universe in Verse livestream
- 04/14/2019 - Nobel-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli on science, spirituality, and our search for meaning, how Eleanor Roosevelt revolutionized politics, and more
- 04/12/2019 - Please confirm your Brain Pickings newsletter subscription
- 04/07/2019 - Timeless advice on love from a forgotten 19th-century genius, Virginia Woolf and the fate of all technology, a poetic celebration of science
- 04/02/2019 - Annual special: Announcing "The Universe in Verse" 2019 (April 23, NYC)
