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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
08/11/2019 - Trees at night — stunning Rorschach silhouettes from the 1920s + Toni Morrison on borders, otherness, belonging, and the meaning of home + more
08/04/2019 - How your DNA encodes your emotional sensitivity and relationship happiness, an illustrated celebration of the will to change the world, and more
07/28/2019 - Tolstoy on kindness and the truest measure of love, a poet-farmer's extraordinary letter to children about why we read, Lorraine Hansberry, and more
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