The Marginalian, formerly known as Brain Pickings, is the blog of @Maria Popova. The expansion of a @Weekly Email to Seven Friends that started in 2006. Brain Pickings is more than just a blog, it's a community united by a common purpose; a "search for truth, beauty, and meaning." A seeker's resource, built for expanding your mind and soul on an unguided tour of thought exploration.
Exploration By-
- Bookshelf | Visualization Archive of Titles.
- Literary Jukebox | Maria's side project, a combination of arts.
- Original Art | Compelling and Inspiring.
- Sounds | "...an uncommon kind of protest and a singularly fertile frontier of resistance."
- Bytes | Simply Explore
- Brain Pickings | "The splendors of the unknown, the uncertain, and the unclassifiable, truth and beauty at the intersection of poetry and science, the timeless tangles of the heart." You don't need to have questions to find answers here. Brain Pickings is created as an Illustration, not a demonstration. Maria understands she cannot answer life's biggest questions for us, but in the search for her own she willingly shares her findings. And wittingly begins the picks our brains Brian [Articles to skim through and decide which you want referenced here]
- Nobel-Winning Physicist Niels Bohr on Subjective vs. Objective Reality and the Uses of Religion in a Secular World [Subjective vs. Objective caught my eye - from Best of Brain Pickings 2018]
- Carl Sagan on Mystery, Why Common Sense Blinds Us to the Universe, and How to Live Within the Unknown [“We are bathing in mystery and confusion on many subjects, and I think that will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”]
References
Brain Pickings, brainpickings.org
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