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A brief history of how the bicycle emancipated women https://t.co/90OdAStA9r
The electron was discovered on this day in 1897, and suddenly atoms were revealed to be mostly empty space—a dizzying notion the more you contemplate it. No one has written about its existential undertones more beautifully than physicist Alan Lightman: https://t.co/4YpRb21iNZ
Rebecca Solnit's lovely letter to children about how books solace, empower, and transform us https://t.co/g9Y4wMV09Q
The Day I Became a Bird – a tender illustrated tale of falling in love and learning to unmask our true selves https://t.co/dqZd9gThOz
"The Little Prince" was published on this day in 1943. Here are the original watercolors for it and the bittersweet true story behind the beloved book: https://t.co/KbUNzw9OlC
The mystery of personal identity – fascinating read on what makes you and your childhood self the "same" "person," despite a lifetime of physical and psychic change https://t.co/QsdBQSJk32
Rebecca Solnit's lovely letter to children about how books solace, empower, and transform us https://t.co/g9Y4wMV09Q
Illustrators celebrate the joy of books and the love of reading – 10 art prints from "A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Readers," 100% of proceeds benefiting public libraries: https://t.co/na0C8OEfoU (Including this @sophieblackall loveliness for @neilhimself's letter)
We lost Baldwin on this day in 1987. His little-known only children's book, celebrating black children's self-esteem and the everyday art of seeing https://t.co/v8ud6aZBtC
“We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change. It offers more of itself when we agree to give up our busyness.”
@AnneLamott on love, despair, and our capacity for change: https://t.co/6NFbVVIoUb