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Reader. Writer. Creator of The Marginalian (long ago named Brain Pickings). Author of #Figuring. Lover of trees. Petter of moss. Rider of a cobalt blue bicycle.
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This is the first surviving photograph of the Moon. John Adams Whipple, born 200 years ago today, took it through Harvard's Great Refractor in 1852, blazing the dawn of astrophotography and revolutionizing our orientation to the ephemeral and the eternal https://t.co/rv5GqwPva9

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“Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.”

Georgia O'Keeffe, living alone and impoverished in the desert in the middle of WWI, on art, life, and setting priorities: https://t.co/53PSUpExvT

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“Do unshed tears wait in little lakes?”

Neruda's 'Book of Questions,' illustrated https://t.co/RcFmLIvpWE

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This week's highlightable delights: Neruda illustrated, Bob Dylan's favorite rabbi teaching, and the paradox of identity and belonging: https://t.co/1wbCF9dCgu

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Seeking an Aurora – an illustrated celebration of Earth's greatest magnetic spectacle (which, today for the first time, you might be able to see farther south than Canada and Iceland) https://t.co/bybNSpqXZ5

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Legendary anthropologist Margaret Mead on work, leisure, and creativity https://t.co/QP5BugbLk9

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An uncommonly tender illustrated story about love, loss, the life-saving power of trees, and learning to enjoy unlonely solitude https://t.co/fuoFJdpxZU

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The vibrant splendor of the overlooked – I can't get over these dazzling seaweed from an 1848 book by the trailblazing self-taught Victorian marine biologist Margaret Gatty, from an era when women were barred from higher eduction in both science and art https://t.co/QNVNy3TLoJ

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Place, personhood, and the hippocampus – the fascinating science of magnetism, autonoeic consciousness, and what makes us who we are https://t.co/c27EHaq8rV

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This week's highlightable delights: Artist Franz Marc, the wisdom of animals, and beauty as resistance to brutality (with a side of Mary Oliver); Aldous Huxley on making sense of ourselves and each other; Chekhov on how (not) to be a writer https://t.co/e9tSDKQTFq

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