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11/17/2019 - What trees can teach us about love and the secret to healthy relationships; the Russell-Einstein manifesto for healing an ailing and divided world
11/10/2019 - Patti Smith's remedy for insomnia, Neil Gaiman's poetic ode to the queer Quaker astronomer who confirmed relativity and catapulted Einstein into fame
11/03/2019 - Eve Ensler's extraordinary letter to Mother Earth, an illustrated alphabet of joy, and a love letter to walking
10/27/2019 - Iris Murdoch on how nature and art allow us to "unself," Ursula K. Le Guin's playful and poignant letter-poem about why we read, and a life-straw
10/23/2019 - 13 life-learnings from 13 years of Brain Pickings
10/20/2019 - Pico Iyer on finding beauty in impermanence and luminosity in loss, sound ecologist Gordon Hempton on the art of listening to silence in a noisy world
10/19/2019 - "Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." (SPECIAL IRREGULAR MAILING)
10/13/2019 - Lorraine Hansberry on depression and its mightiest antidote, the stunning celestial beadwork of a Native artist inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope
10/08/2019 - Live special: a Universe in Verse pop-up
10/06/2019 - What hope really means; futurist and digital optimist Kevin Kelly on reading and the singular power of books; a children's book about Maria Mitchell
09/29/2019 - Amanda Palmer reads Mary Oliver's soulful ode to trees; Patti Smith on dreams, love, loss, and mending the broken realities of life
09/22/2019 - An illustrated ode to the art of listening as a wellspring of self-understanding and empathy; Stephen Fry on Greek mythology and chaos theory; & more
09/15/2019 - Quick update: easier access to the newly launched charitable art prints
09/15/2019 - Kahlil Gibran on children and the parent's task, the story of the first surviving Moon photograph and the visionary 30-year-old who took it, and more
09/13/2019 - Special announcement: Art prints from Brain Pickings
09/08/2019 - An almost unbearably lovely vintage illustrated ode to friendship, the cognitive science and moral philosophy of whether your dog loves you, and more
09/01/2019 - 20-year-old Lord Byron's moving elegy for his beloved dog, an enchanting journey to the hidden universe below our feet, America's first woman mapmaker
08/25/2019 - Viktor Frankl on humor as a lifeline to sanity and survival, Ben Folds on creativity, empathy, and the courage to know yourself, vintage science art
08/21/2019 - Midweek pick-me-up: How Van Gogh found his purpose
08/18/2019 - An illustrated ode to wonder and our consanguinity with the universe, Amanda Palmer reads Wendell Berry's poignant protest against injustice, and more