Maria Popova presents a full-hearted celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the complementary lenses of science and poetry. Fifteen short, digestible essays on the wonders and mysteries of science and nature are each accompanied by a curated poem on the same subject and illustrated by award-winning artist Ofra Amit.
Maria Popova presents a full-hearted celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the complementary lenses of science and poetry. Fifteen short, digestible essays on the wonders and mysteries of science and nature are each accompanied by a curated poem on the same subject and illustrated by award-winning artist Ofra Amit.
Maria Popova thinks and writes about our search for meaning—sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian, born in 2006 under the outgrown name Brain Pickings and included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials, author of Figuring and The Snail with the Right Heart, and maker of The Universe in Verse—a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry.
Inhaltsangabe
Poetry, Science, and the Cosmos of the Possible
The Singularity and Our Elemental Belonging Singularity (after Stephen Hawking) by Marie Howe
Flowers and the Birth of Ecology Bloom by Emily Dickinson
Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings The More Loving One by W.H. Auden
Henrietta Leavitt, Edwin Hubble, and Our Hunger to Know the Universe From My God, It’s Full of Stars by Tracy K. Smith
Dark Matter and Our Yearning for Light Let There Always Be Light by Rebecca Elson
Emily Noether, Symmetry, and the Hidden Order of Things Figures of Thought by Howard Nemerov Trees and the Optimism of Resilience Optimism by Jane Hirshfield
Pi and the Seductions of Infinity Pi by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak
Euclid and the Dazzling Beauty of Universal Truth Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Radioactivity and the Mystery of Matter Power by Adrienne Rich
The Octopus and the Unknown Impossible Blues by Maria Popova
This Mote of Matter A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou
The Search for Life We Are Listening by Diane Ackerman
Mushrooms and the Creative Spirit Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
Singularity Squared Singularity (after Marie Howe) by Marissa Davis
The Singularity and Our Elemental Belonging Singularity (after Stephen Hawking) by Marie Howe
Flowers and the Birth of Ecology Bloom by Emily Dickinson
Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings The More Loving One by W.H. Auden
Henrietta Leavitt, Edwin Hubble, and Our Hunger to Know the Universe From My God, It’s Full of Stars by Tracy K. Smith
Dark Matter and Our Yearning for Light Let There Always Be Light by Rebecca Elson
Emily Noether, Symmetry, and the Hidden Order of Things Figures of Thought by Howard Nemerov Trees and the Optimism of Resilience Optimism by Jane Hirshfield
Pi and the Seductions of Infinity Pi by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak
Euclid and the Dazzling Beauty of Universal Truth Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Radioactivity and the Mystery of Matter Power by Adrienne Rich
The Octopus and the Unknown Impossible Blues by Maria Popova
This Mote of Matter A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou
The Search for Life We Are Listening by Diane Ackerman
Mushrooms and the Creative Spirit Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
Singularity Squared Singularity (after Marie Howe) by Marissa Davis
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