## 2019 1. [Relationship Lessons from Trees](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/13/robert-macfarlane-underland-tree-love/) 1. [Beginnings at the End of Love: Rebecca West’s Extraordinary Love Letter to H.G. Wells in the Wake of Heartbreak](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/12/rebecca-west-h-g-wells-letter/) 1. [Patti Smith’s Imaginative Remedy for Insomnia](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/06/patti-smith-insomnia/) 1. [Bertrand Russell on How to Heal an Ailing and Divided World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/13/einstein-russell-manifesto/) 1. [Nature’s Lessons in Gender Equality, Gender Diversity, and True Love: The Male Pregnancy of the Seahorse and the Fearless Trans Fish of the Coral Seas](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/10/millie-marotta-wild-child/) 1. [Edward Weston on the Most Fruitful Attitude Toward Life, Art, and Other People](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/04/edward-weston-daybook-attitude/) 1. [Abraham Lincoln on Equality and the Slippery Slope of Exclusion](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/04/abraham-lincoln-equality-exclusion/) 1. [Roar Like a Dandelion: Beloved Children’s Book Author and Poet Ruth Krauss’s Lost Alphabet of Joy, Illustrated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/30/roar-like-a-dandelion-ruth-krauss-sergion-ruzzier/) 1. [Losing the Birds, Finding the Words: Eve Ensler’s Extraordinary Letter of Apology to Mother Earth](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/28/eve-ensler-apology-mother-earth/) 1. [Engraving Is Eternal Work: How to Dodge a Deadline Like William Blake](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/31/william-blake-artists-letters/) 1. [In Transit: Neil Gaiman Reads His Touching Tribute to the Lonely Genius Arthur Eddington, Who Confirmed Einstein’s Relativity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/29/in-transit-neil-gaiman-eddington/) 1. [13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/23/13-learnings-13-years/) 1. [The Weighing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/23/the-weighing-jane-hirshfield/) 1. [Ursula K. Le Guin’s Playful and Profound Letter-Poem to Children About the Power of Books and Why We Read](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/21/ursula-k-le-guin-reading-poem/) 1. [The Shape of Music: Maurice Sendak’s Insightful Forgotten Meditation on Fantasy, Feeling, and the Key to Great Storytelling](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/17/the-shape-of-music-maurice-sendak/) 1. [An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection as Integral to Goodness and How the Beauty of Nature and Art Leavens Our Most Unselfish Impulses](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/21/iris-murdoch-unselfing/) 1. [Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You: Whitman’s Immortal Words, Illustrated in Stunning Cyanotype](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/19/lia-halloran-walt-whitman-universe-in-verse/) 1. [How to Disappear: The Art of Listening to Silence in a Noisy World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/14/gordon-hempton-silence/) 1. [Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Rare, Arresting Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories by the Irish Stained Glass and Book Artist Harry Clarke](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/13/harry-clarke-edgar-allan-poe-tales-of-mystery-and-imagination/) 1. [The Universe in Verse: Bill T. Jones Performs Poet Ross Gay’s Ode to Our Highest Human Potentialities](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/10/bill-t-jones-universe-in-verse/) 1. [Lorraine Hansberry on Depression and Its Most Reliable Antidote](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/07/lorraine-hansberry-depression/) 1. [Autumn Light: Pico Iyer on Finding Beauty in Impermanence and Luminosity in Loss](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/11/autumn-light-pico-iyer/) 1. [The Stunning Astronomical Beadwork of Native Artist Margaret Nazon](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/08/margaret-nazon-celestial-beadwork/) 1. [Kevin Kelly’s Letter to Children About the Glory of Books and the Superpower of Reading in an Image-Based Digital Culture](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/03/kevin-kelly-reading/) 1. [What Miss Mitchell Saw: An Illustrated Celebration of How 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell Blazed the Way for Women in Science](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/01/what-miss-mitchell-saw/) 1. [Year of the Monkey: Patti Smith on Dreams, Loss, Love, and Mending the Broken Realities of Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/24/patti-smith-year-of-the-monkey/) 1. [The Great Czech Playwright Turned Dissident Turned President Václav Havel on Hope](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/22/vaclav-havel-hope/) 1. [Shelley on Poetry and the Art of Seeing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/30/shelley-defence-of-poetry/) 1. [Amanda Palmer Reads “When I Am Among the Trees” by Mary Oliver](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/23/amanda-palmer-mary-oliver-when-i-am-among-the-trees/) 1. [An Illustrated Ode to Attentiveness and the Art of Listening as a Wellspring of Self-Understanding, Empathy for Others, and Reverence for the Loveliness of Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/19/listen-holly-mcghee-pascal-lemaitre/) 1. [Uncommon Wisdom from a Forgotten Genius: Olga Jacoby’s Extraordinary Letters on Love, Life, Death, Moral Courage, and Spiritual Purpose Without Religion](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/18/words-in-pain-olga-jacoby-letters/) 1. [A Pioneering Case for the Value of Citizen Science from the Polymathic Astronomer John Herschel](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/15/john-herschel-citizen-science/) 1. [On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/09/on-children-kahlil-gibran/) 1. [Chaos, Time, and the Origin of Everything: Stephen Fry on How Ancient Greek Mythology and Modern Science Meet to Illuminate the Cradle of Being](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/16/stephen-fry-mythos/) 1. [The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon: John Adams Whipple and How the Birth of Astrophotography Married Immortality and Impermanence](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/10/john-adams-whipple-moon/) 1. [Does Your Dog Really Love You and What Does That Really Mean? A Journey in Cognitive Science and Moral Philosophy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/06/alexandra-horowitz-our-dogs-ourselves/) 1. [Through the First Antarctic Night: A Poetic Tribute and Testament to the Human Spirit from a Pioneering Polar Explorer](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/04/through-the-first-antarctic-night-frederick-cook/) 1. [I Like You: An Almost Unbearably Lovely Vintage Illustrated Ode to Friendship](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/02/i-like-you-stoddard-chwast/) 1. [Ancestor Worship with Mother Nature: How Indigenous Death Rituals Illuminate the Web of Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/27/david-abram-the-spell-of-the-sensuous-death/) 1. [Art, Atheism, and the Freedom of Expression: Frida Kahlo’s Searing Protest Letter to the President of Mexico](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/03/frida-kahlo-miguel-aleman-letter/) 1. [Advice to a Daughter from Pioneering Political Philosopher and Feminism Founding Mother Mary Wollstonecraft](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/28/mary-wollstonecraft-maria-advice-daughter/) 1. [How to Find Your Artistic Voice: Ben Folds on Empathy, Creativity, and the Courage to Know Yourself](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/22/ben-folds-a-dream-of-lightning-bugs/) 1. [How Nature Works, in Stunning Psychedelic Illustrations of Scientific Processes and Phenomena from a 19th-Century French Physics Textbook](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/20/amedee-guillemin-le-monde-physique/) 1. [20-Year-Old Lord Byron’s Moving Elegy for His Beloved Dog](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/18/lord-byron-epitatph-for-a-dog/) 1. [Against the Slippery Slope of Injustice: Amanda Palmer Reads Wendell Berry’s Stunningly Prescient Poem “Questionnaire”](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/14/wendell-berry-questionnaire-amanda-palmer/) 1. [Viktor Frankl on Humor as a Lifeline to Sanity and Survival](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/19/viktor-frankl-humor-survival/) 1. [Underland: An Enchanting Journey into the Hidden Universe Beneath Our Feet](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/16/underland-robert-macfarlane/) 1. [Eating the Sun: A Lovely Illustrated Celebration of Wonder, the Science of How the Universe Works, and the Existential Mystery of Being Human](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/12/eating-the-sun-ella-frances-sanders/) 1. [How to Punctuate with Style: Lewis Thomas’s Charming Meditation on the Subtleties of Language](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/11/lewis-thomas-notes-on-punctuation/) 1. [Trees at Night: Stunning Rorschach Silhouettes from the 1920s](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/06/trees-at-night-art-young/) 1. [Faster Than Light: Marilyn Nelson Reads Her Exquisite Poem About the Purpose of Life and How Our Impermanence Both Frustrates and Fuels Our Creative Drive](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/05/faster-than-light-marilyn-nelson-reading/) 1. [Nellie Bly Makes the News: An Animated Documentary About the Investigative Journalism Pioneer Who Paved the Way for Women in Media](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/09/nellie-bly-makes-the-news-animation/) 1. [Borders and Belonging: Toni Morrison’s Prescient Wisdom on the Refugee Struggle, the Violence of Otherness, and the Meaning of Home](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/06/toni-mirrison-borders-home/) 1. [The Antidote to Prejudice: Walter Lippmann on Overriding the Mind’s Propensity for Preconceptions](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/04/walter-lippmann-public-opinion-stereotypes/) 1. [Trailblazing 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Social Change and the Life of the Mind](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/01/maria-mitchell-figuring-1/) 1. [Meditations on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp: Polish Painter Józef Czapski on Literature, Survival, and the Human Soul](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/31/jozef-czapski-lost-time-proust/) 1. [The Lioness in the Tall Grass: Farmer and Poet Laura Brown-Lavoie’s Extraordinary Letter to Children About the Power of Storytelling](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/26/a-velocity-of-being-laura-brown-lavoie/) 1. [Relationship Happiness and Your DNA: How One Gene Encodes Emotional Sensitivity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/01/robert-levenson-marriage-emotion-chromosome-17/) 1. [What If: An Illustrated Celebration of the Utopian Imagination and the Will to Change the World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/29/what-if-tallec-lenain/) 1. [Poetic Symbology of the Heroine’s Journey: Artist Nancy Castille’s Stunning Homage to the Sumerian Proto-Feminist Goddess Inanna](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/24/nancy-castille-hieratica-inanna/) 1. [Lorraine Hansberry, the Love of Freedom, and the Freedom of Love](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/22/lorraine-hansberry-biography-imani-perry/) 1. [Altered States of Consciousness: The Neuropsychology of How Time Perception Modulates Our Experience of Self, from Depression to Boredom to Creative Flow](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/19/altered-states-of-consciousness-marc-wittmann/) 1. [Do You See What I See? A Poetic Vintage Art-Science Primer on the Building Blocks of the Perceptual World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/16/do-you-see-what-i-see-helen-borten/) 1. [Leo Tolstoy on Kindness and the Measure of Love](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/21/leo-tolstoy-kindness-calendar-of-wisdom/) 1. [Is There a God? Stephen Hawking Gives the Definitive Answer to the Eternal Question](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/17/stephen-hawking-brief-answers-to-the-big-questions/) 1. [A Fuller Picture of Human Personality: Iris Murdoch on How Art Helps Us Reimagine Freedom, Moral Life, and Our Inner Worlds](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/15/iris-murdoch-against-dryness/) 1. [The Universe in Verse: Cosmologist and Saxophonist Stephon Alexander Reads “Explaining Relativity” by Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/11/stephon-alexander-rebecca-elson-explaining-relativity/) 1. [Visionary Maps of Time, Space, and Thought by America’s First Female Cartographer and Information Visualization Designer](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/09/emma-willard/) 1. [Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/05/elizabeth-peabody-figuring/) 1. [The Fascinating Science of How Trees Communicate, Animated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/10/trees-ted-ed/) 1. [Ecologist and Philosopher David Abram on the Language of Nature and the Secret Wisdom of the More-Than-Human World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/07/the-spell-of-the-sensuous-david-abram/) 1. [Borderless Lullabies: Musicians and Authors in Defense of Refugee Children](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/04/borderless-lullabies/) 1. [Keats on the Measure of Compassion](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/02/keats-on-compassion/) 1. [A Day in the Life of the Jungle: A Poetic Vintage Illustrated Ode to the Wilderness and the Glorious Diversity of Life on Earth](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/27/the-jungle-helen-borten/) 1. [Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/25/thomas-bernhard-walking/) 1. [The Great 19th-Century Biologist and Anatomist Thomas Huxley on Darwin’s Legacy and What Makes Us Human](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/01/thomas-huxley-charles-darwin-language/) 1. [How to Get Back Up and Keep Running: Amanda Palmer on Making Art When Life Unmakes You](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/25/amanda-palmer-there-will-be-no-intermission-artbook/) 1. [Langston Hughes’s Ardent Public Fan Letter to the Young Nina Simone](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/23/langston-hughes-nina-simone/) 1. [Kahlil Gibran on Friendship and the Building Blocks of Meaningful Connection](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/20/kahlil-gibran-prophet-friendship/) 1. [The Lost Words: An Illustrated Dictionary of Poetic Spells Reclaiming the Language of Nature](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/17/the-lost-words-macfarlane-morris/) 1. [Relativity, the Absolute, the Human Search for Truth: Nobel Laureate and Quantum Theory Originator Max Planck on Science and Mystery](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/12/max-planck-where-is-science-going/) 1. [How John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor’s Pioneering Intimate Partnership of Equals Shaped the Building Blocks of Social Equality and Liberty for the Modern World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/18/john-stuart-mill-harriet-taylor/) 1. [Keats on Depression and the Mightiest Consolation for a Heavy Heart](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/13/keats-depression/) 1. [Alexander Chee’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Save Us](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/11/alexander-chee-a-velocity-of-being-letter/) 1. [William Godwin’s Stunning 1794 Advice to a Young Activist on How to Confront the Status Quo with Self-Possession, Dignity, and Persuasive Conviction](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/10/william-godwin-joseph-gerrald-letter/) 1. [The Conflicted Love Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller: How an Intense Unclassifiable Relationship Shaped the History of Modern Thought](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/05/ralph-waldo-emerson-margaret-fuller-letters-figuring/) 1. [Robinson Jeffers on Moral Beauty, the Interconnectedness of the Universe, and the Key to Peace of Mind](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/03/robinson-jeffers-sister-mary-james-power/) 1. [The Everlasting Self: U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s Soulful Meditation on the Looping, Haunting Mystery of Being](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/06/the-everlasting-self-tracy-k-smith/) 1. [Planting Trees as Resistance and Empowerment: The Remarkable Illustrated Story of Wangari Maathai, the First African Woman to Win the Nobel Peace Prize](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/04/wangari-maathai-the-woman-who-planted-millions-of-trees/) 1. [Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/31/astrophysicist-janna-levin-reads-when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer-walt-whitman/) 1. [101-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Walt Whitman](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/31/helen-fagin-walt-whitman/) 1. [“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Losing a Friend](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/28/antoine-de-saint-exupery-wind-sand-and-stars/) 1. [My Heart: An Emotional Intelligence Primer in the Form of an Uncommonly Tender Illustrated Poem About Our Capacity for Love](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/23/my-heart-corinna-luyken/) 1. [May 29, 1919: The Animated Story of How Eddington’s Historic Eclipse Expedition Confirmed Relativity, Catapulted Einstein into Celebrity, and United Humanity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/29/eddington-einstein-janna-levin/) 1. [The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/27/oliver-sacks-gardens/) 1. [Trailblazing Writer and Feminist Margaret Fuller on the Social Value of Intellectual Labor and Why Artists Ought to Be Paid](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/23/margaret-fuller-figuring-2/) 1. [Why We Walk: A Manifesto for Peripatetic Empowerment](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/21/flaneuse-lauren-elkin/) 1. [Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/20/marcus-aurelius-meditations-mortality-presence/) 1. [Toni Morrison on the Power of Art and the Writer’s Singular Service to Humanity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/16/toni-morrison-writing-art/) 1. [Shelley’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and the Spiritual Value of Vegetarianism](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/21/shelley-vegetarianism/) 1. [Rebecca Solnit on Love, Purposeful Work, and the Meaning of Liberty: An Empowered Retelling of Cinderella](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/17/rebecca-solnit-cinderella-liberator/) 1. [“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Love, Mortality, and Night as an Existential Clarifying Force for the Deepest Truths of the Heart](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/14/antoine-de-saint-exupery-night/) 1. [Reading for Life: Polish Poet Aleksander Wat on How Books Helped Him Survive in a Soviet Prison](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/14/aleksander-wat-my-century-reading/) 1. [Lost Radio Talks from the Harvard Observatory: Cecilia Payne, Who Discovered the Chemical Fingerprint of the Universe, on the Science of Stars and the Muse of All Great Scientists](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/08/cecilia-payne-harvard-observatory-radio-talks/) 1. [Robert Browning on Artistic Integrity, Withstanding Criticism, and the Courage to Create Rather Than Cater](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/07/robert-browning-letters-integrity/) 1. [Moon: A Peek-Through Picture-Book About the Most Beloved Fixture of the Night Sky](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/13/britta-teckentrup-moon/) 1. [Moral Wisdom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener’s Prophetic Admonition About Technology and Ethics](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/08/god-golem-inc-norbert-wiener/) 1. [Virginia Woolf on Being Ill and the Strange Transcendence Accessible Amid the Terrors of the Ailing Body](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/06/virginia-woolf-on-being-ill/) 1. [Visionary Photographer Edward Weston on the Importance of Cross-Disciplinary Curiosity in Creative Work](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/02/edward-weston-daybooks-creativity/) 1. [The Universe in Verse: Regina Spektor Reads “Theories of Everything” by Astronomer, Poet, and Tragic Genius Rebecca Elson](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/29/regina-spektor-reads-rebecca-elson/) 1. [Amanda Palmer’s Haunting Reading of Adrienne Rich’s Poem About Love, Perspective, and the Hubble Space Telescope](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/26/amanda-palmer-hubble-photographs-adrienne-rich/) 1. [Oliver Sacks on Libraries](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/01/oliver-sacks-everything-in-its-place-libraries/) 1. [John Steinbeck’s Stunning, Sobering, Buoyant Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/29/john-steinbeck-nobel-speech/) 1. [The Complementarity of Multiple Loves: The Victorian Philosopher Edward Carpenter on How Freedom Strengthens Togetherness in Long-Term Relationships](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/26/edward-carpenter-marriage-polyamory/) 1. [Spring with Emily Dickinson](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/18/emily-dickinson-spring/) 1. [Zadie Smith Reads Frank O’Hara’s Love Poem to Time via an Old-Fashioned Telephone Line](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/16/zadie-smith-reads-frank-ohara/) 1. [Rachel Carson’s Bittersweet Farewell to the World: Timeless Advice to the Next Generations from the Woman Who Catalyzed the Environmental Movement](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/12/rachel-carson-scripps-college-commencement/) 1. [A Stoic’s Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Balancing the Existential Calculus of Time Spent, Saved, and Wasted](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/17/seneca-letter-1-time/) 1. [Jacqueline Woodson’s Lovely Letter to Children About Kindness, Presence, and How Books Transform Us](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/15/jacqueline-woodson-velocity-of-being/) 1. [How Eleanor Roosevelt Revolutionized Politics](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/12/jill-lepore-eleanor-roosevelt-these-truths/) 1. [Cosmic Consciousness: Maurice Bucke’s Pioneering 19th-Century Theory of Transcendence and the Six Steps of Illumination](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/11/cosmic-consciousness-maurice-bucke/) 1. [Killed by Kindness: Virginia Woolf, the Art of Letters, the Birth and Death of Photography, and the Fate of Every Technology](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/03/virginia-woolf-julia-margaret-cameron-photography/) 1. [The Universe in Verse 2018: Full Show](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/02/universe-in-verse-2018/) 1. [The Power of Antagonistic Cooperation: Albert Murray on Heroism and How Storytelling Redeems Our Broken Cultural Mythology](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/08/albert-murray-antagonistic-cooperation/) 1. [Arthur Rackham’s Stunning 1926 Illustrations for “The Tempest”](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/03/arthur-rackham-tempest/) 1. [Love, Pain, and Growth: The Forgotten Philosopher, Poet, and Pioneering LGBT Rights Activist Edward Carpenter on How to Survive the Agony of Falling in Love](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/31/edward-carpenter-love-marriage-in-free-society/) 1. [Alain de Botton’s Lovely Letter to Children About Why We Read](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/28/alain-de-botton-velocity-of-being-why-we-read/) 1. [The Jazz of Physics: Cosmologist and Saxophonist Stephon Alexander on Decoding the Song of the Universe](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/25/the-jazz-of-physics-stephon-alexander/) 1. [The Coming Victory of Democracy: Thomas Mann on Justice, Human Dignity, and the Need to Continually Renew Our Ideals](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/21/thomas-mann-the-coming-victory-of-democracy/) 1. [Lincoln on How to Handle Criticism](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/27/abraham-lincoln-criticism/) 1. [Advice on Writing from Emily Dickinson’s Editor](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/22/emily-dickinson-thomas-wentworth-higginson-letter-to-a-young-contributor/) 1. [Crescendo: A Watercolor Ode to the Science, Strangeness, and Splendor of Pregnancy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/20/crescendo-quintavalle-sanna/) 1. [Astrophysicist and Author Janna Levin Reads “Berryman” by W.S. Merwin: Some of the Finest and Most Soul-Salving Advice on How to Stay Sane as an Artist](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/18/merwin-berryman/) 1. [Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/13/wolfgang-pauli-carl-jung-figuring/) 1. [These Truths: Jill Lepore on How the Shift from Mythology to Science Shaped the Early Dream of Democracy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/11/jill-lepore-these-truths/) 1. [Art and the Nocturnal Imagination: Painter, Poet, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on Dreaming and Creativity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/18/etel-adnan-journey-to-mount-tamalpais-dreaming/) 1. [Trailblazing 18th-Century Artist Sarah Stone’s Stunning Natural History Paintings of Exotic, Endangered, and Extinct Species](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/12/sarah-stone-natural-history-illustration/) 1. [Over the Rooftops, Under the Moon: A Lyrical Illustrated Meditation on Loneliness, Otherness, and the Joy of Finding One’s Community](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/07/over-the-rooftops-under-the-moon/) 1. [The Source of Self-Regard: Toni Morrison on Wisdom in the Age of Information](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/06/the-source-of-self-regard-toni-morrison-wisdom-information/) 1. [Anne Gilchrist’s Beautiful and Heartbreaking Love Letters to Walt Whitman](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/05/anne-gilchrist-walt-whitman-letters/) 1. [Harriet Hosmer on Art and Ambition: The World’s First Successful Woman Sculptor on What It Takes to Be a Great Artist](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/27/harriet-hosmer-figuring/) 1. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Art as the Crucible of Progress and the Dangerous Cult of Blind Innovation, with Rare Woodcuts by Artist Elfriede Abbe](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/06/elizabeth-barrett-browning-prometheus-bound-elfriede-abbe/) 1. [15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/04/susan-sontag-reborn-self/) 1. [The Devil Teaches Thermodynamics: Sean Ono Lennon Reads Nobel-Winning Chemist and Poet Roald Hoffmann’s Ode to Entropy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/26/the-devil-teaches-thermodynamics-roald-hoffmann-sean-ono-lennon/) 1. [Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/25/love-and-saint-augustine-hannah-arendt/) 1. [Thoreau on the Long Cycles of Social Change and the Importance of Not Mistaking Politics for Progress](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/20/thoreau-social-change/) 1. [Romanian Philosopher Emil Cioran on the Courage to Disillusion Yourself](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/18/emil-cioran-delusion/) 1. [The Year of the Whale: A Lyrical Illustrated Serenade to Our Planet’s Largest-Brained Creature](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/21/the-year-of-the-whale-scheffer/) 1. [Emblem of My Work: Artists Reimagine Laurence Sterne’s Iconic Marbled Page](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/19/emblem-of-my-work-marbled-page/) 1. [Herman Melville’s Passionate, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Love Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/13/herman-melville-nathaniel-hawthorne-love-letters/) 1. [Otherness, Belonging, and the Web of Life: The Great Nature Writer Henry Beston on Our Fellow Creatures and the Dignity of Difference](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/13/henry-beston-outermost-house-animals/) 1. [Rachel Carson’s Birdsong Notation, Set to Music](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/12/rachel-carson-birdsong-figuring/) 1. [After Silence: Amanda Palmer Reads Neil Gaiman’s Stunning Poem Celebrating Rachel Carson’s Legacy of Culture-Shifting Courage](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/07/after-silence-neil-gaiman-rachel-carson/) 1. [Salvation by Words: Iris Murdoch on Language as a Vehicle of Truth and Art as a Force of Resistance to Tyranny](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/12/iris-murdoch-salvation-by-words/) 1. [Anatomy of Deception and Self-Delusion: Walter Lippmann on Public Opinion, Our Slippery Grasp of Truth, and the Discipline of Apprehending Reality Clearly](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/11/walter-lippmann-public-opinion/) 1. [You Can’t Have It All](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/07/you-cant-have-it-all-barbara-ras-emily-levine/) 1. [Journey to Mount Tamalpais: Lebanese-American Poet, Painter, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on Time, Self, Impermanence, and Transcendence](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/06/etel-adnan-journey-to-mount-tamalpais/) 1. [The Great Naturalist John Burroughs on Art, the Courage to Defy Convention, and the Measure of a Visionary](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/04/john-burroughs-whitman-art/) 1. [French Philosopher Maurice Blanchot on Writing, the Dual Power of Language to Reveal and Conceal, and What It Really Means to See](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/28/maurice-blanchot-infinite-conversation-writing-seeing/) 1. [The More Loving One: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads W.H. Auden’s Sublime Ode to Our Unrequited Love for the Universe](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/04/janna-levin-w-h-auden-the-more-loving-one/) 1. [Jane Goodall’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Reading Shaped Her Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/31/jane-goodalls-reading-a-velocity-of-being/) 1. [In Search of the Canary Tree: What a Disappearing Ancient Forest Can Teach Us About Resilience and Grace in a Changing World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/27/in-search-of-the-canary-tree-lauren-oakes/) 1. [Music, Feeling, and Transcendence: Nick Cave on AI, Awe, and the Splendor of Our Human Limitations](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/24/nick-cave-music-ai/) 1. [Stunning 19th-Century French Natural History Illustrations of Beetles](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/22/beetles/) 1. [The Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral Faculty: How Founding Father Benjamin Rush Revolutionized Our Understanding of Mental Health](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/17/benjamin-rush-biography-mental-health/) 1. [Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Love and Resisting the Tyranny of Relationship Labels](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/23/david-whyte-consolations-naming-love/) 1. [How to Rewire Your Broken Behavioral Patterns: Shakespeare’s Advice on Acquiring Better Habits](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/21/shakespeare-hamlet-habit/) 1. [Being Against Becoming: Susan Sontag on Our Ambivalent Historical Conscience](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/16/susan-sontag-cioran-history/) 1. [Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/15/hermann-hesse-solitude-suffering-destiny/) 1. [“Dracula” Author Bram Stoker’s Extraordinary Love Letter to Walt Whitman](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/09/bram-stoker-walt-whitman-letter/) 1. [The Astronomical Art of Maria Clara Eimmart: Stunning 17th-Century Drawings of Comets, Planets, and Moon Phases by a Self-Taught Artist and Astronomer](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/06/maria-clara-eimmart/) 1. [Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/14/mary-oliver-advice-on-writing/) 1. [Neil Gaiman Reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ode to Timelessness to His 100-Year-Old Cousin](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/08/neil-gaiman-reads-ursula-k-le-guin/) 1. [Rebecca Solnit’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Solace, Empower, and Transform Us](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/03/a-velocity-of-being-rebecca-solnit/) 1. [How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Confidence: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Self-Esteem](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/03/whitman-emerson-criticism/) 1. [The Art-Science of Taking Perspective](https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/02/perspective/) ## 2018 1. [The Best of Brain Pickings 2018](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/27/best-of-brain-pickings-2018/) 1. [Favorite Books of 2018](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/21/best-books-of-2018/) 1. [The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Key to Existential Contentment](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/19/hiking-with-nietzsche-john-kaag-eternal-return/) 1. [In Praise of Idleness: Bertrand Russell on the Relationship Between Leisure and Social Justice](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/27/in-praise-of-idleness-bertrand-russell/) 1. [Freedom and Creative Vitality in a Market Society: Ursula K. Le Guin on Saving Books from Profiteering and Commodification](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/20/ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-award-speech/) 1. [The Loveliest Children’s Books of 2018](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/18/best-childrens-books-2018/) 1. [A 100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor on How Books Save Lives](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/18/a-velocity-of-being-helen-fagin/) 1. [An Illustrated Celebration of the Rebels, Visionaries, and Fiercely Courageous World-Changers Who Won Women Political Power](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/13/bold-and-brave-gillibrand-kalman/) 1. [The Fish in the Stone: Zoë Keating Reads Rita Dove’s Ode to Deep Time](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/11/rita-dove-zoe-keating-universe-in-verse/) 1. [The Art of Waiting: Reclaiming the Pleasures of Durational Being in an Instant Culture of Ceaseless Doing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/17/jason-farman-delayed-response/) 1. [Hermann Hesse on Hope, the Difficult Art of Taking Responsibility, and the Wisdom of the Inner Voice](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/12/hermann-hesse-letter-to-a-young-german/) 1. [Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/10/emily-dickinson-love-letters-susan-gilbert/) 1. [The Original Manifesto for Information Visualization and Pictorial Statistics: ISOTYPE Creator Otto Neurath’s Pioneering 1930 Visual Language](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/10/exact-thinking-in-demented-times-otto-neurath-isotype/) 1. [Against Self-Righteousness: Anne Lamott on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Relationship Between Brokenness and Joy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/05/anne-lamott-almost-everything-joy/) 1. [Against Common Sense: Vladimir Nabokov on the Wellspring of Wonder and Why the Belief in Goodness Is a Moral Obligation](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/02/vladimir-nabokov-the-art-of-literature-and-commonsense/) 1. [An Illustrated Celebration of How Books Touch and Transform Us](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/07/a-velocity-of-being-prints/) 1. [The Psychology of Code-Breaking: 100-Year-Old Insight from Cryptography Pioneers William and Elizebeth Friedman](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/04/william-elizebeth-friedman-code-breaking/) 1. [Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/29/ursula-k-le-guin-the-dispossessed-suffering/) 1. [Patti Smith Sings “The Tyger” and Reflects on William Blake’s Transcendent Legacy as a Guiding Sun in the Cosmos of Creativity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/28/willim-blake-poems-patti-smith/) 1. [Incubation, Ideation, and the Art of Editing: Beethoven on Creativity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/25/beethoven-on-creativity/) 1. [Stranger in the Village: James Baldwin’s Prophetic Insight into Race and Reality, with a Shimmering Introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/19/gwendolyn-brooks-james-baldwin-library-of-congress/) 1. [George Sand’s Only Children’s Book: A Touching Parable of Choosing Kindness and Generosity Over Cynicism and Greed, with Stunning Illustrations by Russian Artist Gennady Spirin](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/27/george-sand-the-mysterious-tale-of-gentle-jack-and-lord-bumblebee/) 1. [A Velocity of Being: Illustrated Letters to Children about Why We Read by 121 of the Most Inspiring Humans in Our World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/20/a-velocity-of-being-letters-to-a-young-reader/) 1. [Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/15/georgia-okeeffe-flower/) 1. [How to Make Difficult Decisions: Benjamin Franklin’s Pioneering Pros and Cons Framework](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/14/benjamin-franklin-joseph-priestley-pros-cons/) 1. [Wordsworth on Genius and the Creative Responsibility of Elevating Taste](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/12/wordsworth-genius-taste/) 1. [Dawn: A Vintage Watercolor Serenade to the World Becoming Conscious of Itself](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/06/uri-shulevitz-dawn/) 1. [The Puzzle We Call Being: Walt Whitman on Listening to the Song of Existence, Animated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/13/walt-whitman-song-of-myself-animated/) 1. [Perspective in the Age of Opinion: Timely Wisdom from a Century Ago](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/08/g-k-chesterton-heretics/) 1. [Margaret Fuller on What Makes a Great Leader: Timeless Political Wisdom from the Founding Mother of American Feminism](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/05/margaret-fuller-figuring/) 1. [Elizabeth Gilbert Reads “The Early Hours” by Adam Zagajewski](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/04/elizabeth-gilbert-the-early-hours/) 1. [How to Be a Good Creature: Naturalist Sy Montgomery on What 13 Animals Taught Her About Otherness, Love, and the Heart of Our Humanity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/31/how-to-be-a-good-creature-sy-montgomery/) 1. [Meeting Virginia Woolf](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/30/may-sarton-virginia-woolf/) 1. [Figuring](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/01/figuring/) 1. [Truth, Justice, and Public Good: Simone Weil on Political Manipulation, the Dangers of “For” and “Against,” and How to Save Thinking from Opinion](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/31/simone-weil-abolition-of-all-political-parties/) 1. [How a Jellyfish and a Sea Slug Illuminate the Mystery of the Self](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/25/lewis-thomas-the-medusa-and-the-snail-self/) 1. [Door: A Tender Illustrated Allegory of Self-Discovery and the Capacity for Joy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/25/door-jihyeon-lee/) 1. [‘Frankenstein’ Author Mary Shelley on Nature and the Meaning of Happiness](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/23/mary-shelley-lake-geneva/) 1. [Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/17/elizabeth-gilbert-ted-podcast-love-loss/) 1. [Anne Lamott on Love, Despair, and Our Capacity for Change](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/24/anne-lamott-almost-everything/) 1. [Rebecca Solnit on Rewriting the World’s Broken Stories and the Paradigm-Shifting Power of Calling Things by Their True Names](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/18/rebecca-solnit-call-them-by-their-true-names/) 1. [An Illustrated Field Guide to the Art, Science, and Joy of Tea](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/16/a-little-tea-book-sebastian-beckwith/) 1. [The Dalai Lama on Science and Spirituality](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/16/dalai-lama-science-spirituality-destructive-emotions/) 1. [The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees: Otherworldly Images Revealing the Cellular Structure of Wood Specimens](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/11/archie-f-wilson-wood-specimens/) 1. [A Stunning Illustrated Celebration of the Wilderness and the Human Role in Nature Not as Conqueror but as Humble Witness](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/09/the-forest-riccardo-bozzi/) 1. [The Original Marriage of Equals: The Love Letters of Feminism Founding Mother Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Philosopher William Godwin](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/15/romantic-outlaws-mary-wollstonecraft-william-godwin-love-letters/) 1. [Ursula K. Le Guin on Time, the Meaning of Loyalty, and Why Honoring the Continuity of Past and Future Is the Root of Acting Responsibly](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/10/ursula-k-le-guin-the-dispossessed-time/) 1. [Borges on Turning Trauma, Misfortune, and Humiliation into Raw Material for Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/08/borges-trauma-art/) 1. [Pioneering Conservationist Mardy Murie on Nature, Human Nature, and the Wealth of the Wilderness](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/04/mardy-murie-alaska-nature/) 1. [Loving vs. Being in Love: Jane Welsh Carlyle on Navigating the Heart’s Contradictions](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/02/jane-welsh-carlyle-love/) 1. [The Scientific Poetics of Affection: Lewis Thomas on Altruism and Why We Are Wired for Friendship](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/27/lewis-thomas-altruism/) 1. [Anton Chekhov’s 6 Rules for a Great Story](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/03/chekhov-6-rules/) 1. [Little Man, Little Man: James Baldwin’s Only Children’s Book, Celebrating the Art of Seeing and Black Children’s Self-Esteem](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/01/little-man-little-man-james-baldwin/) 1. [How to Break Up with Integrity: Rilke on Unwounding Separation and the Difficult Art of Recalibrating Broken Relationships](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/26/rilke-breakup/) 1. [Presto & Zesto in Limboland: A Lovely and Unusual “New” Maurice Sendak Book Elegizing a Lost Friendship](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/25/presto-zesto-in-limboland/) 1. [Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on the Malady of “Content” and How to Save Creative Culture from the Syphoning of Substance](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/24/norbert-wiener-communication/) 1. [Physicist Alan Lightman on the Illusion of Absolute Rest](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/19/alan-lightman-searching-for-stars/) 1. [An Antidote to White Male Capitalist Culture: Adrienne Rich on the Liberating Power of Storytelling and How Reading Emancipates](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/25/adrienne-rich-reading/) 1. [Beasts of India: Stunning Illustrations of Indigenous Animals Depicted in Various Tribal Art Traditions](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/20/beasts-of-india/) 1. [We Grow Accustomed to the Dark: Emily Dickinson’s Stunning Ode to Resilience, Animated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/18/we-grow-accustomed-to-the-dark-emily-dickinson-animation/) 1. [The Only Story in the World: John Steinbeck on Kindness, Good and Evil, the Wellspring of Good Writing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/17/john-steinbeck-good-evil-east-of-eden/) 1. [Japanese Artist Ryota Kajita’s Otherworldly Photographs of Ice Formation in Alaska](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/12/ryota-kajita-ice-formation/) 1. [Toni Morrison on the Deepest Meaning of Freedom](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/10/toni-morrison-beloved-freedom/) 1. [Walt Whitman on Creativity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/14/walt-whitman-on-creativity/) 1. [Consider the Tree: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Discipline of Not Objectifying and the Difficult Art of Seeing Others as They Are, Not as They Are to Us](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/11/martin-buber-tree/) 1. [Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/06/ellen-harding-baker-solar-system-quilt/) 1. [The Woman Who Smashed Codes: The Untold Story of Cryptography Pioneer Elizebeth Friedman](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/06/the-woman-who-smashed-codes-elizebeth-friedman/) 1. [Jeanette Winterson’s 10 Tips on Writing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/05/jeanette-winterson-10-tips-on-writing/) 1. [What We Imagine Knowledge to Be: James Gleick Reads Elizabeth Bishop](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/31/james-gleick-elizabeth-bishop-universe-in-verse/) 1. [You Belong Here: An Illustrated Antidote to Our Existential Homelessness](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/06/you-belong-here-clark-arsenault/) 1. [The Difficult Art of Giving Space in Love: Rilke on Freedom, Togetherness, and the Secret to a Good Marriage](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/03/rilke-love-marriage/) 1. [Against the Illusion of Separateness: Pablo Neruda’s Beautiful and Humanistic Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/30/pablo-neruda-nobel-lecture/) 1. [Water: A Stunning Celebration of the Element of Life Based on Indian Folklore](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/29/water-subhash-vyam/) 1. [Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/26/epictetus-love-loss/) 1. [Why the Sea Is Blue: Rachel Carson on the Science and Splendor of the Marine Spectrum](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/21/rachel-carson-the-sea-around-us-blue/) 1. [Literary Ecstasy: Virginia Woolf Describes a Psychedelic Experience](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/28/virginia-woolf-orlando-ecstasy/) 1. [Van Gogh on the Beauty of Sorrow and the Enchantment of Storms, in Nature and in Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/22/van-gogh-sorrow/) 1. [Stephen Hawking on What Makes a Good Theory and the Quest for a Theory of Everything](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/20/stephen-hawking-a-brief-history-of-time-theory/) 1. [The Great Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz on Love](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/16/czeslaw-milosz-love/) 1. [King of the Sky: A Lyrical Illustrated Fable of Belonging and the Meaning of Home](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/13/king-of-the-sky/) 1. [Loneliness in Time: Physicist Freeman Dyson on Immigration and How Severing Our Connection to the Past Shallows Our Present and Hollows Our History](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/08/freeman-dyson-immigration/) 1. [Walt Whitman on the “Meaning” of Art and How to Best Access the Poetic](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/08/15/walt-whitman-specimen-days-poetry-art/) 1. 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[Blob: An Irreverent and Insightful Modern Fable About Beauty, Ugliness, the Paths to Acceptance, and How Admiration Hijacks Our Sense of Self](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/09/blob-the-ugliest-animal-in-the-world/) 1. [The World’s Most Lyrical Footnote: Physicist Richard Feynman on the Life-Expanding Common Ground Between the Scientific and the Poetic Worldviews](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/09/richard-feynman-poetry-science/) 1. [This Book Is a Planetarium: A Pop-Up Masterpiece Translating the Laws of Physics into Playful and Poetic Tangibility](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/08/this-book-is-a-planetarium-kelli-anderson/) 1. [The Wonders of Possibility: Lewis Thomas on Our Human Potential and Our Cosmic Responsibility to the Planet and to Ourselves](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/04/lewis-thomas-seven-wonders/) 1. [Germaine de Staël’s Guide to Haters: The First Modern Woman on Meritocracy, the Psychology of Why the Masses Rejoice in Tearing Down Successful Individuals, and the Only True Measure of Genius](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/08/germaine-de-stael-passions-happiness-glory/) 1. [A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/05/thoreau-excusrsions-a-winter-walk/) 1. [Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos: An Illustrated Celebration of How the Pioneering Artist’s Love of Animals Shaped Her Character](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/03/frida-kahlo-and-her-animalitos/) 1. [D.H. Lawrence on the Antidote to the Malady of Materialism](https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/02/d-h-lawrence-letters-materialism/) 1. 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[Poetry and the Revolution of Being: Jane Hirshfield on How Great Art Transforms Us](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/02/jane-hirshfield-ten-windows-poetry/) 1. [Having It Out with Melancholy: Amanda Palmer Reads Jane Kenyon’s Stunning Poem About Life With and After Depression](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/27/having-it-out-with-melancholy-jane-kenyon-amanda-palmer/) 1. [On Saying “I Love You” Only When You Mean It: Robert Browning on Protecting the Sincerity of Sentiment from Desecration by Misuse](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/25/robert-browning-i-love-you/) 1. [Florence Nightingale Visits a Mosque: The Founder of Modern Nursing on Women, Islam, and Religion’s Power Structures](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/01/florence-nightingale-letters-from-egypt-mosque/) 1. [The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/25/e-e-cummings-advice/) 1. 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[The Search for a New Humility: Václav Havel on Reclaiming Our Human Interconnectedness in a Globalized Yet Divided World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/18/vaclav-havel-harvard-commencement/) 1. [The Vampire Problem: A Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Paradox of Transformative Experience](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/13/transformative-experience-vampire-problem/) 1. [Anatomy of Hatred: The Paradoxical Psychology of How That Which Repels Us Binds Us](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/12/lives-like-loaded-guns/) 1. [How to Break Up Like a Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Art of the Kind, Clean Break](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/08/edna-st-vincent-millay-breakup/) 1. [A Forgotten Poet Laureate of Nature on How Beauty Dissolves the Boundary Between Us and the World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/06/richard-jefferies-beauty/) 1. 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[The Creative Tension Between Vitality and Fatality: Illuminating the Mystery of Sylvia Plath Through Her Striking Never-Before-Revealed Visual Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/08/17/sylvia-plath-one-life-smithsonian-visual-art/) 1. [Sun and Moon: Stunning Illustrations of Celestial Myths by Ten of India’s Greatest Indigenous Artists](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/08/15/sun-and-moon-tara-books/) 1. [The Haunted Mind: Nathaniel Hawthorne on How the Transcendent Space Between Sleep and Wakefulness Illuminates Time and Eternity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/08/22/nathaniel-hawthorne-the-haunted-mind/) 1. [John Quincy Adams on Efficiency vs. Effectiveness, the Proper Aim of Ambition, and His Daily Routine](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/08/16/john-quincy-adams-diaries-effectiveness/) 1. [The Terror Within and the Evil Without: James Baldwin on Our Capacity for Transformation as Individuals and Nations](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/08/14/james-baldwin-nothing-personal-evil/) 1. [91-Year-Old Lebanese-American Poet, Philosopher, and Painter Etel Adnan on Memory, the Self, and the Universe](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/08/10/etel-adnan-night-memory/) 1. [An Illustrated Fictional Day in the Real Lives of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/08/08/happy-birthday-alice-babette/) 1. [Sam Shepard in Love, on Love](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/08/03/sam-shepard-on-love/) 1. [What to Look for During a Total Solar Eclipse: Mabel Loomis Todd’s Poetic 19th-Century Guide to Totality, with Help from Emily Dickinson](https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/08/09/mabel-loomis-todd-total-eclipses-of-the-sun/) 1. 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[Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: Harvard Physicist Lisa Randall on the Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/28/dark-matter-and-the-dinosaurs-lisa-randall/) 1. [The Science of Why We Cry and the Three Types of Tears](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/12/01/why-we-cry-types-of-tears-ted-ed/) 1. [Margaret Mead’s Beautiful Letter of Advice to Her Younger Sister on Starting a Family in an Uncertain World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/30/margaret-mead-elizabeth-letter/) 1. [The Art of Self-Culture and the Crucial Difference Between Being Educated and Being Cultured: John Cowper Powys’s Forgotten Wisdom from 1929](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/25/the-meaning-of-culture-powys/) 1. [How the Clouds Got Their Names](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/25/richard-hamblyn-clouds-ted-ed/) 1. 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[Men, Women, and Our Limiting Mythology of Success](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/16/unfinished-business-anne-marie-slaughter/) 1. [Norman Rockwell’s Rare Illustrations for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/13/norman-rockwell-huckleberry-finn/) 1. [Ray Bradbury Reads His Poem “If Only We Had Taller Been” in a Rare 1971 Recording](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/12/ray-bradbury-if-only-we-had-taller-been/) 1. [Tallulah Bankhead Reads “A Telephone Call,” Dorothy Parker’s Brilliant Satire of How Infatuation Drives Us Mad](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/13/tallulah-bankhead-reads-a-telephone-call-dorothy-parker/) 1. [Keep the Keyhole Clean: Kafka on Appearance vs. Reality and How the Media Commodify Truth](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/12/conversations-with-kafka-truth/) 1. [The Tiger Who Would Be King: James Thurber’s Poignant 1927 Parable of the Destructive Hunger for Power, Reimagined in Stunning New Illustrations](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/11/the-tiger-who-would-be-king-james-thurber-joohee-yoon/) 1. [Adam Gopnik on Darwin’s Brilliant Strategy for Preempting Criticism and the True Mark of Genius](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/11/adam-gopnik-angels-and-ages-darwin/) 1. [Cézanne’s Only Known Love Letter](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/10/cezanne-love-letter/) 1. [Thunder & Lightning: An Extraordinary Illustrated Celebration of the Weather and Its Role in the Human Experience](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/09/thunder-lightning-lauren-redniss/) 1. [Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost NYU Lecture on What It Takes to Be a Writer, Animated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/11/kurt-vonnegut-blank-on-blank/) 1. [Nicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/09/nicole-krauss-van-gogh-letter/) 1. [Carl Sagan on Humility, Science as a Tool of Democracy, and the Value of Uncertainty](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/09/carl-sagan-science-democracy/) 1. [Ursula K. Le Guin on the Sacredness of Public Libraries](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/06/ursula-k-le-guin-libraries/) 1. [David Foster Wallace on Why You Should Use a Dictionary, How to Write a Great Opener, and the Measure of Good Writing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/05/david-foster-wallace-dictionary-writing/) 1. [The Great French Artist Eugène Delacroix on Self-Doubt, Idea-Ambivalence, and the Cure for Procrastination](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/04/delacroix-procrastination/) 1. [The Yin-Yang of Fortune and Misfortune: Alan Watts on the Art of Learning Not to Think in Terms of Gain and Loss](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/06/alan-watts-swimming-headless/) 1. [Sex Is a Funny Word: An Intelligent and Inclusive Illustrated Primer on Sexuality](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/05/sex-is-a-funny-word-cory-silverberg-fiona-smyth/) 1. [The Quiet Noisy Book: A Little-Known Vintage Gem by Margaret Wise Brown](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/04/the-quiet-noisy-book-margaret-wise-brown/) 1. [Charles M. Schulz, Civil Rights, and the Previously Unseen Art of Peanuts](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/03/only-whats-necessary-peanuts-chip-kidd/) 1. [Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Making Inspired Mistakes Moves Us Forward](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/02/van-gogh-fear-risk/) 1. [Order, Disorder, and Oneself: French Polymath Paul Valéry on How to Never Misplace Anything](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/30/paul-valery-analects-order-disorder/) 1. [Patti Smith on the Two Kinds of Masterpieces and Her Fifty Favorite Books](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/02/patti-smith-favorite-books-m-train/) 1. [The Tea Party in the Woods: A Tender Modernist Fairy Tale by Japanese Artist Akiko Miyakoshi](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/30/the-tea-party-in-the-woods-akiko-miyakoshi/) 1. [Beloved Dog: Maira Kalman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Our Canine Companions](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/29/beloved-dog-maira-kalman/) 1. [Philosopher Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving and What Is Keeping Us from Mastering It](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/29/the-art-of-loving-erich-fromm/) 1. [The Poetics of Smell as a Mode of Knowledge](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/28/lewis-thomas-on-smell-long-line-of-cells/) 1. [David Hume on Human Nature, the Myth of Selfishness, and Why Vanity Is Proof of Virtue Rather Than Vice](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/27/david-hume-selfishness/) 1. [Gloria Steinem on the Road as a Medium of Listening in a Culture Deafened by Speaking](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/28/gloria-steinem-my-life-on-the-road/) 1. [Sylvia Plath on Privilege, Free Will, and What Makes Us Who We Are](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/27/sylvia-plath-journals-privilege-free-will/) 1. [How Sitting Is Harming Your Body and What You Can Do to Counter Its Perils](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/27/sitting-ted-ed/) 1. [Philosopher Alain Badiou on How We Fall and Stay in Love](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/26/alain-badiou-in-praise-of-love/) 1. [9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/23/nine-years-of-brain-pickings/) 1. 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[Physicist Lisa Randall on the Sublime and the Crucial Differences Between How Art, Science, and Religion Explain the Universe](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/19/lisa-randall-knocking-on-heavens-door/) 1. [Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/21/telling-is-listening-ursula-k-le-guin-communication/) 1. [John Dewey on How to Find Your Calling, the Key to a Fulfilling Vocation, and Why Diverse Interests Are Essential for Excellence in Any Field](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/20/john-dewey-democracy-and-education-calling/) 1. [Harry Clarke’s Beautiful and Haunting 1925 Illustrations for Goethe’s Faust](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/19/harry-clarke-faust/) 1. [Patti Smith on Time, Transformation, and How the Radiance of Love Redeems the Rupture of Loss](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/19/patti-smith-m-train-loss-time/) 1. 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[Hannah Arendt on Being vs. Appearing and Our Impulse for Self-Display](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/14/hannah-arendt-life-of-the-mind-being-appearing/) 1. [The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/13/oliver-sacks-on-the-move-empathy/) 1. [Immortal Beloved: Beethoven’s Passionate Love Letters](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/12/immortal-beloved-beethoven-love-letters/) 1. [John Steinbeck’s Prophetic Dream About How the Commercial Media Machine Is Killing Creative Culture](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/13/john-steinbeck-letters-to-elizabeth-dream/) 1. [What to Think About Machines That Think: Leading Thinkers on Artificial Intelligence and What It Means to Be Human](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/12/what-to-think-about-machines-that-think-brockman-edge-question/) 1. [John Lennon’s Impassioned Letters on the Value of Meditation](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/09/john-lennon-letters-meditation/) 1. [How to Disagree: Amin Maalouf on the Key to Intelligent Dissent and Effective Criticism](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/09/amin-maalouf-identity-criticism/) 1. [Galileo on Critical Thinking and the Folly of Believing Our Preconceptions](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/08/galileo-dialogue-critical-thinking/) 1. [Know Your Clouds: A 1966 Animated Morphology of the Skies](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/07/know-your-clouds-1966-army/) 1. [The Transfiguration of Aloneness: David Whyte on Longing and Silence](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/08/david-whyte-consolations-longing-silence/) 1. [Stress and the Social Self: How Relationships Affect Our Immune System](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/07/esther-sternberg-stress-relationships/) 1. 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[Natural Histories: 500 Years of Rare Scientific Illustrations from the American Museum of Natural History Archives](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/27/natural-histories/) 1. [When Babbage and Dickens Waged a War on Noise](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/28/discord-babbage-noise/) 1. [The Science of Your Brain on Alcohol, Animated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/27/your-brain-on-alcohol-animated/) 1. [The Best Art Books of 2012](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/26/best-art-books-2012/) 1. [Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories and Good News vs. Bad News](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/26/kurt-vonnegut-on-the-shapes-of-stories/) 1. [Susan Sontag’s List of Beliefs at Age 14 vs. Age 24](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/23/susan-sontag-beliefs/) 1. [How to Use Your Turkey Leftovers: 13 Ideas from F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/23/f-scott-fitzgerald-turkey-leftover-recipes/) 1. [Imagination Illustrated: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Never-Before-Seen Journals and Sketches](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/26/imagination-illustrated-jim-henson-journal/) 1. [The R&D Lab of Creativity: Inside the Sketchbooks of Beloved Illustrators and Designers](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/23/laurence-king-sketchbooks/) 1. [Fiona Apple’s Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/22/fiona-apple-janet-letter/) 1. [Bruno Munari on Design as a Bridge Between Art and Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/22/bruno-munari-design-as-art/) 1. [Dutch Illustrator Rop Van Mierlo’s Charming Rorschach-Like Wash Paintings of Wild Animals](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/21/rop-van-mierlo-wild-animals/) 1. [The Daily Routines of Great Writers](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/20/daily-routines-writers/) 1. [Marilyn Monroe’s Turkey Recipe](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/21/marilyn-monroe-turkey-recipe/) 1. [A Visual Timeline of the Future Based on Famous Fiction](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/21/giorgia-lupi-future-timeline/) 1. [Tiny Collaborative Stories](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/20/tiny-collaborative-stories/) 1. [Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/20/geometrical-psychology-benjamin-betts/) 1. [Andrew Zuckerman’s Extraordinary Portraits of Flowers](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/19/andrew-zuckerman-flower/) 1. [Eleanor Roosevelt on Happiness, Conformity, and Integrity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/16/eleanor-roosevelt-on-happiness-conformity-and-integrity/) 1. [Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/19/joan-didion-on-keeping-a-notebook/) 1. [The Best Science Books of 2012](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/19/best-science-books-2012/) 1. [How Thomas Jefferson Pioneered the Tomato, Championed Urban Farming, and Taught Americans to Make Coffee](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/16/thomas-jeffersons-creme-brulee/) 1. [Are We Nearing the Maximum Capacity of the Human Brain?](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/16/ravenous-brain-information-overload/) 1. [What Makes a Great City: A General Theory of Walkability](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/15/walkable-city-jeff-speck/) 1. [John Keats’s Porridge: The Favorite Recipes of Beloved Poets](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/14/john-keatss-porridge-favorite-recipes-of-american-poets/) 1. [Kurt Vonnegut: You’re Allowed To Be In Love Three Times In Your Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/15/kurt-vonnegut-love/) 1. [The Birth of Sound: Why the Big Bang Was Actually Silent](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/15/the-birth-of-sound/) 1. [An Illustrated Vintage Bicycle Safety Manual circa 1969](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/14/bicycle-safety-manual-1969/) 1. [Illustrated Bookshelves of Famous Artists’ and Writers’ Favorite Books](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/13/my-ideal-bookshelf-jane-mount-thessaly-la-force/) 1. [Britain vs. America in Minimalist Vintage Infographics](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/13/only-an-ocean-between-isotype-infographics/) 1. [Changing New York: Berenice Abbott’s Stunning Black-and-White Photos from the 1930s](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/12/changing-new-york-berenice-abbott/) 1. [An Animated Open Letter to President Obama on the State of Science Education](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/13/minutephysics-open-letter-to-obama/) 1. [Philosopher Judith Butler on Doubting Love](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/12/philosopher-judith-butler-on-doubting-love/) 1. [A Short Poem from Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/12/a-short-poem-from-kurt-vonnegut/) 1. [What Will Survive of Us Is Love: Helen Dunmore’s 9 Rules of Writing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/09/helen-dunmore-rules-of-writing/) 1. [Anaïs Nin on Embracing the Unfamiliar](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/08/anais-nin-unfamiliar/) 1. [The Machine That Made Us: Stephen Fry and the BBC Explore Gutenberg’s Legacy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/08/the-machine-that-made-us-stephen-fry-bbc/) 1. [Philip Pullman Reimagines the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/09/philip-pullman-grimm/) 1. [The Science of “Intuition”](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/08/the-science-of-intuition-answers-for-aristotle/) 1. [The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/07/the-big-new-yorker-book-of-dogs/) 1. [Henry Miller on Art, War, and the Future of Humanity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/07/henry-miller-of-art-and-the-future/) 1. [The Half-Life of Facts: Dissecting the Predictable Patterns of How Knowledge Grows](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/06/the-half-life-of-facts/) 1. [Scientists and Philosophers Answer Kids’ Most Pressing Questions About How the World Works](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/05/big-questions-from-little-people/) 1. [The Nature of the Fun: David Foster Wallace on Why Writers Write](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/06/the-nature-of-fun-david-foster-wallace/) 1. [The Beatles Perform Shakespeare in Color, 1964](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/06/the-beatles-perform-shakespeare-1964/) 1. [Building Stories: Cartoonist Chris Ware Explores the Architecture of Being Human](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/05/building-stories-chris-ware/) 1. [Kurt Vonnegut’s Daily Routine](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/05/kurt-vonnegut-daily-routine/) 1. [The Cats of Copenhagen: Delightful Recently Discovered Children’s Story by James Joyce](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/02/the-cats-of-copenhagen-james-joyce/) 1. [Joy Williams on Why Writers Write](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/01/joy-williams-on-why-writers-write/) 1. [How the Gutenberg Press Embodies Combinatorial Creativity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/02/how-the-gutenberg-press-embodies-combinatorial-creativity/) 1. [Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Don Quixote by Spanish Graphic Design Pioneer Roc Riera Rojas](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/02/don-quixote-roc-riera-rojas/) 1. [Stunning Spanish Illustrations for The Communist Manifesto](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/01/fernando-vicente-communist-manifesto/) 1. [The Art of “Negative Capability”: Keats on Embracing Uncertainty and Celebrating the Mysterious](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/01/john-keats-on-negative-capability/) 1. [A Visual History of New York City’s Destruction in 200 Years of Fiction](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/31/the-citys-end-max-page/) 1. [Grapefruit: Yoko Ono’s Poems, Drawings, and Instructions for Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/30/yoko-ono-grapefruit/) 1. [Francis Bacon on Beauty](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/31/francis-bacon-on-beauty/) 1. [Alan Watts on Death, in a Beautiful Animated Short Film](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/31/alan-watts-on-death/) 1. [Illusionist Derren Brown on the Psychology of Gullibility](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/30/the-psychology-of-gullibility/) 1. [Mind and Cosmos: Philosopher Thomas Nagel’s Brave Critique of Scientific Reductionism](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/30/mind-and-cosmos-thomas-nagel/) 1. [Sylvia Plath Reads “A Birthday Present”: A Rare 1962 Recording](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/29/sylvia-plath-reads-a-birthday-present-1962/) 1. [Susan Sontag on the Creative Purpose of Boredom](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/26/susan-sontag-on-boredom/) 1. [Stunning Black & White Engravings by Ian Hugo from Anaïs Nin’s Hand-Printed Under a Glass Bell, 1944](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/29/under-a-glass-bell-ian-hugo-engravings/) 1. [The Etymology of “Hangover”](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/29/the-etymology-of-hangover/) 1. [A History of Reading](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/26/a-history-of-reading/) 1. [100 Ideas That Changed Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/25/100-ideas-that-changed-art/) 1. [Anaïs Nin on Parenting, Character, and Personal Responsibility](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/25/anais-nin-on-parenting-character-and-personal-responsibility/) 1. [How to Be a Grouch: A Vintage Sesame Street Guide to Grumpiness](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/24/how-to-be-a-grouch/) 1. [Who Could It Be At This Hour? Lemony Snicket Asks All The Wrong Questions](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/25/lemony-snicket-seth-who-could-it-be-at-this-hour/) 1. [100 Ideas That Changed Photography](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/24/100-ideas-that-changed-photography/) 1. [How a Cat Boosts Your Creativity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/24/muriel-sparks-cat/) 1. [Faking It: A Visual History of 150 Years of Image Manipulation Before Photoshop](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/23/faking-it-met/) 1. [The Power of Introverts, Animated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/23/susan-cain-molly-crabapple-rsa/) 1. [The Science of Why We Blush, Animated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/22/science-of-blushing/) 1. [Rework: Beck and Others Remix the Music of Philip Glass for the Iconic Composer’s 75th Birthday](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/23/rework-philip-glass-remixed/) 1. [Dance Is Like Thought: Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham’s Studio](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/22/helen-keller-martha-graham/) 1. [David DeSteno on the Psychology of Compassion and Resilience](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/22/david-desteno-compassion-resilience-poptech/) 1. [So You Want To Be a Writer: Bukowski Debunks the “Tortured Genius” Myth of Creativity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/19/so-you-want-to-be-a-writer-charles-bukowski/) 1. [Sailing to Byzantium: 13 Songs Based on the Poetry of W. B. Yeats](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/19/christine-tobin-sailing-to-byzantium/) 1. [Displays of Affection: Iconic French Cartoonist Sempé Explores Relationship Clichés](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/18/displays-of-affection-sempe/) 1. [Vintage Indian Matchbook Labels](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/19/matchbook-tara-books/) 1. [One-Minute Animated Primers on Major Theories of Religion](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/18/60-second-adventures-in-religion/) 1. [A Poetic Antidote to City Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/18/anais-nin-acapulco/) 1. [Action Philosophers: Two Millennia of Philosophy in Comic Form](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/17/action-philosophers/) 1. [How the Invention of Walls Gave Rise to Eavesdropping](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/17/eavesdropping/) 1. [Happy Birthday, Chrysler Building Spire: The Story of an Epic Architectural Rivalry](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/16/chrysler-building-spear/) 1. [No Decent Woman or Girl is Ever Seen Wearing Trousers: 12 Conduct Rules for Women from Rural Spain](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/17/1943-iberia-women-list/) 1. [Drawing from the City: Exquisite Indian Folk Art Meets Women’s Empowerment](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/16/drawing-from-the-city-tara-books/) 1. [Why I Write: Joan Didion on Ego, Grammar, and the Creative Impulse](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/16/why-i-write-joan-didion/) 1. [Freud on Creative Writing and Daydreaming](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/15/freud-creative-writers-and-day-dreaming/) 1. [When Charles Darwin Hated Everybody](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/15/when-charles-darwin-hated-everybody/) 1. [Do Not Despise Your Inner World: Advice on a Full Life from Philosopher Martha Nussbaum](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/12/martha-nussbaum-take-my-advice/) 1. [The Distance of the Moon: Beautiful Israeli Animated Film Based on the Italo Calvino Classic](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/15/the-distance-of-the-moon-italo-calvino-film/) 1. 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[Urville: An Autistic Savant’s Remarkable Imaginary City, 20 Years in the Making](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/16/urville-gilles-trehin/) 1. [Michael Pollan’s Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/15/michael-pollans-food-rules-rsa-stop-motion/) 1. [Designer Kelli Anderson on Disruptive Wonder and the Hidden Talents of Everyday Things](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/14/kelli-anderson-tedxphoenix/) 1. [Vintage Valentine’s Day Postcards from the Early 1900s](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/14/vintage-valentines-day-cards-from-the-early-1900s/) 1. [The Bomb and the General: A Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book by Umberto Eco circa 1966](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/13/the-bomb-and-the-general-umberto-eco/) 1. [The Quantum Universe: Why All That Can Happen Does Happen](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/13/the-quantum-universe-brian-cox/) 1. [This Will Make You Smarter: 151 Big Thinkers Each Pick a Concept to Enhance Your Cognitive Toolkit](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/14/this-will-make-you-smarter-brockman-edge-question/) 1. [Elizabeth Gilbert on How Schopenhauer’s Porcupine Dilemma Reveals the Secret of Happiness](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/13/elizabeth-gilbert-porcupines/) 1. [E. B. White on Why Brevity Is Not the Gold Standard for Style](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/10/e-b-white-letters/) 1. [A Brief Animated History of the Modern Calendar](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/10/animated-history-of-the-calendar/) 1. [Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical Thinking](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/09/critical-thinking/) 1. [A Brief History of the To-Do List and the Psychology of Its Success](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/09/willpower-to-do-list/) 1. 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[This Is Your Brain on Comedy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/03/chris-bliss-texrainier-comedy/) 1. [A Beautiful 1928 Letter to 16-Year-Old Jackson Pollock from His Dad](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/02/jackson-pollock-father-letter/) 1. [Three Primary Colors: OK Go and Sesame Street Explain Basic Color Theory in Stop-Motion](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/02/three-primary-colors-ok-go-sesame-street/) 1. [Pasta by Design: Finding Whimsy in the Geometry of Food](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/01/pasta-by-design/) 1. [The Dot and the Line: A 1965 Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/31/the-dot-and-the-line/) 1. [Lost in Learning: Celebrating the Art and Spirit of Discovery](https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/02/lost-in-learning-celebrating-the-art-and-spirit-of-discovery/) 1. 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[Dead Men’s Tales: Harry Houdini](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/24/harry-houdini-documentary/) 1. [The Atomic Cafe: Lampooning America’s Nuclear Obsession](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/24/the-atomic-cafe/) 1. [The Longevity Project: Insights on Life from an 80-Year Study](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/23/the-longevity-project/) 1. [How Musicians Experience and Communicate Emotion](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/24/daniel-levitin-all-in-the-timing/) 1. [Hans Rosling: How the Washing Machine Sparked the Reading Revolution](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/23/hans-rosling-washing-machine/) 1. [YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/23/youtube-symphony-orchestra-2011/) 1. [PICKED: Beautiful Short Film for World Water Day](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/22/solidarites-international-water/) 1. [3 Iconic Film Directors Interpret Classic Operas](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/22/sky-arts-opera-shorts/) 1. [Vision Revolution: Why We See The Way We Do](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/21/mark-changizi-vision-revolution/) 1. [Stencil 101 for Kids & the Eternal Kid](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/22/ed-roth-stencil-101/) 1. [Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad on Sound, Science, and Mystery](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/21/jad-abumrad-poptech-sound/) 1. [7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/21/must-read-books-music-emotion-brain/) 1. [Scott Belsky on How to Avoid Idea Plateaus](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/18/scott-belsky-idea-plateaus/) 1. [Words Without Words: A Visual Dictionary](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/18/words-without-words-veronika-heckova/) 1. [PICKED: Waste Land](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/17/vik-muniz-lucy-walker-waste-land/) 1. [7 Einstein Classics, Digitized for the First Time](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/18/albert-einstein-ebooks/) 1. [PICKED: Escape Vehicle No. 6](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/17/extreme-armchair-viewing/) 1. [Enchantment: Guy Kawasaki’s Guide to Success](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/17/guy-kawasaki-enchanted/) 1. [The Art of Immersion: Dissecting the Future of Storytelling](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/16/art-of-immersion/) 1. [PICKED: Cry Baby, The Pedal That Rocks The World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/15/cry-baby-documentary/) 1. [Albert Einstein: How I See The World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/14/albert-einstein-how-i-see-the-world/) 1. [The Coca-Cola Case](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/16/the-coca-cola-case/) 1. [Open-Sourcing Graphic Design: 3 Projects](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/15/open-source-graphic-design/) 1. [Harvard’s Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/14/steven-pinker-harvard-thinks-big-violence/) 1. 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[Inside Out Project: Street Artist JR’s $100K TED Prize](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/04/jr-inside-out-project-ted-prize/) 1. [10 Years of Bicycle Film Festival in 3 Minutes](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/07/bicycle-film-festival-remix/) 1. [5 (More) Must-Read Books by TED 2011 Speakers](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/07/5-must-read-books-ted-2011/) 1. [Worldchanging: An Updated Vision for a Better World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/04/worldchanging-revised/) 1. [The Blackwater Gospel: Haunting Danish Animated Short Film](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/04/picked-the-blackwater-gospel/) 1. [Endnotes: A David Foster Wallace BBC Documentary](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/03/endnotes-david-foster-wallace-documentary/) 1. [TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day Two](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/03/ted-2011-highlights-day-2/) 1. [TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day 3](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/03/ted-2011-highlights-day-3/) 1. [Moonwalking with Einstein: How to Hack Your Memory](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/03/joshua-foer-moonwalking-with-einstein/) 1. [Who Is The World’s Most Typical Person?](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/02/national-geographic-7-billion-most-typical-person/) 1. [Drawing Inspiration: An Animated Film about Routine & Serendipity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/02/drawing-inspiration-film/) 1. [Before I Die: Reclaiming Urban Aspiration](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/01/candy-chang-before-i-die/) 1. [The Almost True Story of NYC’s Subway Helvetica](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/02/28/paul-shaw-nyc-subway-helvetica/) 1. [TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day One](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/01/ted-2011-highlights-day-1/) 1. [Soviet Artist and Mathematician Anatolii Fomenko’s Mathematical Impressions](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/03/01/anatolii-fomenko-mathematical-impressions/) 1. [Paola Antonelli on What Makes Good Design](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/02/28/paola-antonelli-on-what-makes-good-design/) 1. [The Wisdom of TED in Kinetic Typography](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/02/28/ted-remix/) 1. [Street Artist JonOne Celebrates Abbé Pierre](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/02/25/abbe-pierre-foundation-jonone/) 1. [TEDxAustin Title Sequence](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/02/24/tedxaustin-opening-sequence/) 1. [Make Love, Not Porn: Technology’s Hardcore Impact on How We Act](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/02/25/make-love-not-porn-book/) 1. [Alfred Hitchcock on the “Fright Complex”](https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/02/25/alfred-hitchcock-on-the-fright-complex/) 1. 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[American Software: The Titans of Silicon Valley in 8-Bit Animation](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/28/american-software/) 1. [PICKED: Verbal + Yoon Cover The Runaways](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/27/verbal-and-yoon-cover-the-runaways/) 1. [Words of the World: The Secret Stories of Words](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/27/words-of-the-world/) 1. [Oil + Water: Posters Printed with Oil from The Gulf](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/28/oil-and-water-do-not-mix/) 1. [PICKED: We All Good People](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/27/we-all-good-people/) 1. [PICKED: Who’s Afraid of the Watersprite](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/26/whos-afraid-of-the-watersprite/) 1. [Everything Explained Through Flowcharts](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/26/everything-explained-through-flowcharts/) 1. [PICKED: Neighbor Dining](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/25/neighbor-dining/) 1. [The School of Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/25/the-school-of-life/) 1. [RxArt: Healing Children Through Contemporary Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/26/rxart/) 1. [On Gratitude: 51 Micro-Essays on Life’s Blessings](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/25/on-gratitude/) 1. [Wanderlust: Four Minutes of Cinematic Aliveness](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/22/wanderlust/) 1. [Obsolete Occupations: 7 Cinematic Short Films](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/22/obsolete-occupations-documentaries/) 1. [Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity and Changing Educational Paradigms](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/21/sir-ken-robinson-rsa/) 1. [Frames of Reference: Clever Vintage Film Makes Physics Fun](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/20/frames-of-reference/) 1. [The Threadless Story: A Tale of Creative Entrepreneurship](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/21/the-threadless-story-book/) 1. [Project Interaction: Design as an Education Curriculum](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/21/project-interaction/) 1. [Street Artist JR Wins 2011 TED Prize](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/20/jr-ted-prize-2011/) 1. [Search for the Obvious: A Homage to Everyday Objects](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/20/search-for-the-obvious-acumen-fund/) 1. [I Wonder: Marian Bantjes Explores Joy Through Typography](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/19/marian-bantjes-i-wonder/) 1. [RIP Benoît Mandelbrot: Remembering The Father of Fractals](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/18/remembering-benoit-madelbrot/) 1. [MakerLegoBot: A 3D LEGO Meta-Printer](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/19/makerlegobot/) 1. [projeqt: A Creative Storytelling Platform](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/19/projeqt/) 1. [How Do I Explain It To My Parents: Abstract Artists on the Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/18/how-do-i-explain-it-to-my-parents/) 1. [A Lab of My Own: Coming Out In Science](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/18/neena-schwartz-a-lab-of-my-own/) 1. [Blog Action Day 2010: Water](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/15/blog-action-day-2010-water/) 1. [Remote Palette: Warhol 2.0](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/14/remote-palette/) 1. [Trespass: A Brief History of Uncommissioned Street Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/15/tresspass/) 1. [And The Pursuit of Happiness: Maira Kalman Illustrates Democracy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/14/maira-kalman-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness/) 1. [Jet Age: Entrepreneurship Lessons From The Sky](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/14/jet-age/) 1. [The Procrastinators](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/13/the-procrastinators/) 1. [60-Second Lectures: A Tapas Bar of Academic Insight](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/13/upenn-60-second-lectures/) 1. [Cosmic Discoveries: The Universe in Your Pocket](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/12/amnh-cosmic-discoveries/) 1. [Nina Paley: All Creative Work Is Derivative](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/13/nina-paley-creativity/) 1. [Charles & Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten Flipbook](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/12/powers-of-ten-flipbook/) 1. [Fifty People, One Question](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/12/fifty-people-one-question/) 1. [Nowhere Boy: John Lennon’s Early Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/11/nowhere-boy/) 1. [Moleskine + Pac-Man = Gold](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/08/moleskine-pac-man/) 1. [Graffiti Love Letter to Syracuse](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/07/steve-powers-graffiti-love-letter-to-syracuse/) 1. [Five Visualizations to Grasp the Scale of the Universe](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/11/the-scale-of-the-universe/) 1. [What Is Procrastination: 5 Perspectives](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/08/5-perspectives-on-procrastination/) 1. [Schlimazeltov! A Short Film About Luck in Jewish Culture](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/07/schlimazeltov/) 1. [A Rare Look at Haiti: Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/07/maya-deren-divine-horsemen-the-living-gods-of-haiti/) 1. [Conversations with Mr. Lois](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/06/conversations-with-mr-lois/) 1. [BBC’s 60-Second Ideas to Improve the World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/05/bbc-60-second-ideas-to-improve-the-world/) 1. [PICKED: Hello Rewind](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/06/hello-rewind/) 1. [Inside The Kelly Writers House Audio Archives](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/06/kelly-writers-house-audio-archives/) 1. [PICKED: Sintel, a Global Collaborative Animated Film](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/05/sintel/) 1. [FORM+CODE: Eye & Brain Candy for the Digital Age](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/05/form-and-code/) 1. [PICKED: Thirty Conversations on Design, 2010 Edition](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/04/thirty-conversations-on-design-2010/) 1. [AuroraMAX : Watch The Aurora Borealis Live](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/01/auroramax/) 1. [Visualizing.org: A Data Visualization Portal](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/04/visualizing/) 1. [Mood Collection: Cinematic Anthropology of Urban Tenderness](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/04/paul-mignot-mood-collection/) 1. [Literary Action Figures](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/01/literary-action-figures/) 1. [7 Image Search Tools That Will Change Your Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/10/01/best-image-search-tools/) 1. [PICKED: TurningArt, Netflix for Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/09/30/turning-art/) 1. [Michele Banks’ Biological Watercolors](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/09/29/michele-banks-artologica-watercolors/) 1. [Modern Women: MoMA Celebrates Women in Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/09/30/moma-modern-women/) 1. [The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/09/29/the-autobiography-and-sex-life-of-andy-warhol/) 1. [Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/09/29/geoff-mcghee-data-journalism/) 1. [PICKED: Miracles – 20 Years of Pop in One Mashup](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/09/28/norwegian-recycling-miracles/) 1. [5 Cross-Disciplinary Cookbooks](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/09/28/5-must-read-cross-disciplinary-cookbooks/) 1. [Bad News: A Media Fiction](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/09/27/bad-news-a-media-fiction/) 1. [Junk Drawers: Portraits of People Through Their Trinkets](https://www.brainpickings.org/2010/09/28/brittny-badger-junk-drawers/) 1. 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[The Little Album That Could](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/08/27/ditty-bops-summer-rains/) 1. [AskNature: The Biomimicry Design Portal](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/08/25/ask-nature/) 1. [Film Spotlight: Lemonade](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/08/21/lemonade-movie/) 1. [Music Spotlight: This Must Be The Place](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/08/20/miles-fisher/) 1. [Poetry On The Road’s VisualPoetry](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/08/18/visual-poetry/) 1. [Remastered, Reinvented, Reimagined: Record Club](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/08/14/record-club/) 1. [Brazil Goes Green by Doing The Yellow](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/08/19/convocacao/) 1. [Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/08/17/charley-harper-an-illustrated-life/) 1. [Data Visualization Spotlight: In The Air](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/08/13/in-the-air/) 1. [Collaborative Creation: PSST!](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/08/12/psst/) 1. 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[Exclusive Interview with Designer Twan Verdonck](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/28/twan-verdonck-interview/) 1. [BBC vs. MTV: Poetry Season](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/27/bbc-poetry/) 1. [TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 3](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/24/ted-global-highlights-3/) 1. [TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 1](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/21/ted-global-day-1/) 1. [TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 4](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/25/ted-global-highlight-4/) 1. [TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 2](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/22/ted-global-highlights/) 1. [Behind the Scenes of TED](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/20/ted-behind-the-scenes/) 1. [Animation Spotlight: Peripetics](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/17/zeitguised-peripetics/) 1. [Technofuturism: La Vitrine](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/15/la-vitrine/) 1. [Digital Choreography: Synchronous Objects](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/13/synchronous-objects/) 1. [Photography Spotlight: Things](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/09/andrzej-kramarz-things/) 1. [The Human Face, Up Close and Personal](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/07/01/facial-research/) 1. [Data Visualization: The Colors of Democracy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/29/data-visualization-the-colors-of-democracy/) 1. [5:1 Student Design Show](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/25/5-to-1/) 1. [The Open_Sailing Project](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/30/open-sailing/) 1. [New Music Spotlight: Regina Spektor “Far”](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/23/regina-spektor-far/) 1. [Short Film Spotlight: Synesthesia](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/19/synesthesia/) 1. [Clay Shirky on Social Media, News and the Democratic Process](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/17/clay-shirky-ted-at-state/) 1. [Brain Pickings Original: Typography of the SFMoMA](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/22/sfmoma-typography/) 1. [Independent Film Spotlight: Future Weather](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/18/future-weather-film/) 1. [Wego Motel: Soap](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/16/wego-motel/) 1. [Animation Spotlight: The Chimney Sweep](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/15/the-chimney-sweep/) 1. [Futility Paints Utility: Wikipedia Reproduced](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/11/printed-wikipedia/) 1. [In-Formed: Physical Objects as Data Visualization](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/09/nadeem-haidary-in-formed/) 1. [Philanthropy Spotlight: 100 Girls Back to School](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/12/100-girls-back-to-school/) 1. [Wordnik: The Dictionary Redefined](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/10/wordnik/) 1. [Ordering The Chaos: The Internet Mapping Project](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/08/internet-mapping-project/) 1. [RiP: A Remix Manifesto](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/05/rip-a-remix-manifesto/) 1. [Exclusive Interview with Society6’s Justin Wills](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/03/society6-exclusive-interview/) 1. [Labuat: Soy Tu Aire](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/01/labuat-soy-tu-aire/) 1. [Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/04/emotional-cartography/) 1. [Kickstarter: Crowdsourced Culture-Funding](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/02/kickstarter/) 1. [Multimedia Spotlight: Vocal Improvisation Animated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/29/fredo-viola-improvisation/) 1. [The Consequences of… Jacob Livengood](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/28/the-consequences-of-jacob-livengood/) 1. [Heart of a City: BioMapping](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/26/biomapping/) 1. [Artist Spotlight: Stephan Zirwes Aerial Photography](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/22/stephan-zirwes-aerial-photography/) 1. [Pick One: Hipsters Take on Culture, By Way of Helvetica](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/27/pick-one/) 1. [ComplexCity: Visualizing the Hidden Patterns of Urbanity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/25/complexcity/) 1. [Behind the Scenes of Project N.A.S.A.](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/21/north-america-south-america/) 1. [Into Post-Digital Creative Culture: OFFF 2009](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/20/offf-2009/) 1. [Beautiful Connections: The Art of Conversation](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/18/nokia-beautiful-connections/) 1. [Animation Spotlight: Forget](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/14/michael-fragstein-animation/) 1. [Artist Spotlight: Zee Avi](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/19/zee-avi-music/) 1. [Life, Visually Dissected](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/15/wwf-ddb-brazil/) 1. [Hyper-Marketing Meets Meta-Art: Tate Tracks](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/13/tate-tracks/) 1. [What NASA Can Learn from X Prize (And Vise Versa)](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/12/nasa-vs-x-prize/) 1. [Curating Twitter: Three Hand-Picked Must-Follows](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/08/best-of-twitter/) 1. [Running The Numbers: Oceanographic Visualization](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/06/chris-jordan-running-the-numbers-ii/) 1. [We Got Time: Hand-Illustration Meets In-Camera Animation Magic](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/11/moray-mclaren-we-got-time/) 1. [Writing Without Words: Visualizing Jack Kerouac’s On The Road](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/07/writing-without-words/) 1. [(R)evolutionary Record: The Darwin Song Project](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/05/darwin-song-project/) 1. [Collaborative Cinema: The Hunt for Gollum](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/04/the-hunt-for-gollum/) 1. [Photographic Time Machine](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/30/photographic-time-machine/) 1. [A Typographic Visualization of Every TED Talk, Ever](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/28/ted-talks-typographic-visualization/) 1. [The Sale of Manhattan: A Saul Bass Gem Circa 1962](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/05/01/sale-of-manhattan-saul-bass/) 1. [Pure Process: Picking the Creative Brain](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/29/pure-process/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Haley Bonar](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/27/haley-bonar-music/) 1. [Truth, Beauty, Math and Crocheting](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/24/margaret-wertheim-institute-for-figuring/) 1. [Earth Day The Reel Way](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/22/earth-day-the-real-way/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Brain-Picking Ghost Away](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/20/ghost-away-music-interview/) 1. [Film Spotlight: Paper Heart](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/23/paper-heart-movie/) 1. [The Housing Crisis in 3D](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/21/subprime-video/) 1. [As Seen On Earth: The Infinite Photograph](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/17/national-geographic-infinite-photograph/) 1. [Lynching Moby](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/16/lynching-moby/) 1. [Creative Pause: Todd St. John & HunterGatherer](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/14/hunter-gatherer-todd-st-john/) 1. [LBB + OLPC = GOOD](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/10/lbb-olpc-good/) 1. [Exactitudes: Cross-Cultural Photo-Anthropology Explores the Myth of Unique Identity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/15/exactitudes/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Anathallo](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/13/anathallo-music/) 1. [Paper Whimsy: Top 5 Artists](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/09/paper-whimsy-top-5-artists/) 1. [Bicycle Built for 2,000](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/08/aaron-koblin-bicycle-built-for-2000/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: The Botticellis](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/06/the-botticellis/) 1. [20 Steps to Sustainable Cities](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/02/alex-steffen-sustainable-cities/) 1. [The MacGuffin Library](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/07/the-macguffin-library/) 1. [Sustainable Agriculture: Top 5 Innovation Efforts](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/03/sustainable-agriculture/) 1. [Photography Spotlight: The 50 States Project](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/01/photography-spotlight-the-50-states-project/) 1. [Sound Meets Image: Visual Tributes to Music](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/31/visual-tributes-to-music/) 1. [Earth Hour 2009](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/27/earth-hour-2009/) 1. [Meta-Vinyl Creativity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/24/meta-vinyl-creativity/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Kat Edmonson](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/30/kat-edmonson/) 1. [The Library Rethought](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/26/library-innovation/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Lisa Hannigan](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/23/lisa-hannigan/) 1. [Animation Gem: Brothers Grimm Meet Röyksopp](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/20/little-red-riding-hood/) 1. [How Happiness Happens](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/18/happiness/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Dan Auerbach](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/16/dan-auerbach/) 1. [The Creative (Re)Touch](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/19/image-manipulation-showcase/) 1. [Product Design Spotlight: The Little Bottle That Could](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/17/donut-shaped-plastic-bottle/) 1. [The World of 100: Our Global Village](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/13/the-world-of-100/) 1. [Accidents: The Abstract Art of Data Visualization Goofs](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/12/data-visualization-accidents/) 1. [Hungry Planet: How The World Eats, or Doesn’t](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/) 1. [Transform: The Journey to Creative Contentment](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/06/transform/) 1. [Interview with Chunnel.TV Founder Matthew Berman](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/11/chunnel-tv/) 1. [The New Orchestra: Symphonic Innovation Around the World](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/09/orchestra-innovation/) 1. [Sign of The Times: Data Visualization Heaven](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/05/new-york-times-data-visualization/) 1. [The Secret Lives of Secret Places](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/04/miru-kim/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Blame Ringo](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/02/blame-ringo-music/) 1. [Similarities: Because It’s All Been Done](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/25/similarities/) 1. [The Art of Identity](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/03/03/the-art-of-identity/) 1. [Repurposed Art: The Second Life of Cardboard](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/27/cardboard-art/) 1. [GOOD Magazine: The Real Stimulus Package](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/25/good-pay-what-you-want/) 1. [Geek Tuesday: Data Immersion Gone Wild](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/24/uuorld/) 1. [TEDify: Ideas Worth Connecting](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/19/tedify-ideas-worth-connecting/) 1. [Vintage Design: Innovation Lessons from the Past](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/17/chicago-tribune-design/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: First Aid Kit](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/23/first-aid-kit-music/) 1. [Spotlight: Cherri Wood](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/18/spotlight-cherri-wood/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Peter Buffett](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/16/peter-buffett-music/) 1. [Revisiting the Retail Experience: BBlessing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/13/revisiting-the-retail-experience-bblessing/) 1. [Perroquet: Photography, Science, Slow-Motion Beauty](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/10/perroquet/) 1. [TED 2009 Highlights: Day 2](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/06/ted-2009-highlights-day-two/) 1. [Art of The Cover: Book Cover Design Inspiration](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/12/art-of-the-cover/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Keren Ann](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/09/keren-ann/) 1. [TED 2009 Highlights: Day 1](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/05/ted-2009-highlights-day-one/) 1. [Design, Life, Digital: Best of DLD 2009](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/04/best-of-dld-conference-2009/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Matt and Kim](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/02/monday-music-muse-matt-and-kim/) 1. [Lights, Camera, Ticket](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/29/lights-camera-ticket/) 1. [Show & Tell: A Century of Illustrated Letters](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/02/03/smithsonian-illustrated-letters/) 1. [Duper Bowl: Alternative Super Bowl Logos](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/30/alternative-super-bowl-xliii-logos/) 1. [Artist Spotlight: Volkan Ergen](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/28/artist-spotlight-volkan-ergen/) 1. [Best of Bike Culture: Innovation Top 5](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/27/best-of-bike-culture-innovation/) 1. [Animation Spotlight: Big Buck Bunny](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/23/animation-spotlight-big-buck-bunny/) 1. [Famous Designers on Design: 5 Beautiful Book Covers](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/20/book-covers-by-famous-designers/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Rachael Cantu](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/26/rachael-cantu-music/) 1. [Show & Tell: Mapping Obama’s Speech](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/21/obama-inauguration-graphic-facilitation/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: The Midnight Show](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/19/the-midnight-show/) 1. [A Picture is Worth a Thousand Word-of-Mouths](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/16/social-media-saves-jpg-magazine/) 1. [The Story of Stuff](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/14/the-story-of-stuff/) 1. [Illustration Showcase: 5 Artists to Watch](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/12/5-illustration-artists-to-watc/) 1. [Vintage Russian Ads](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/15/vintage-russian-ads/) 1. [Monday Music Muse: Lionel Neykov](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/12/monday-music-musings-lionel-neykov/) 1. [The Sky in Motion: 7,000 NASA Images in a Mesmerizing Timelapse](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/09/the-sky-in-motion/) 1. [Uncovered Gem of the Week: Tarsem’s The Fall](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/08/tarsem-the-fall/) 1. [Objectified: Dissecting Design](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/06/objectified/) 1. [Holiday Economy Examined](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/01/holiday-economy/) 1. [Coming to a Best-of-2009 List Near You](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/07/company-of-thieves/) 1. [Birth of an Idea: The Ride](https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/01/05/idea-inception/) ## 2008 1. [Catch of the Day](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/31/surfrider-foundation-guerrilla-campaign/) 1. [A Little Awkward](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/29/a-little-awkward/) 1. [The Art of the Doodle](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/22/doodlage/) 1. [A Library of Human Imagination](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/30/jay-walker-library-of-human-imagination/) 1. [The Year in Ideas: 8 Best of 2008](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/24/best-ideas-of-2008/) 1. [Famous Logos Revised: Fortune 500 Sans Fortune](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/18/famous-logos-after-the-crisis/) 1. [Artist Spotlight: Alan Macdonald](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/17/artist-spotlight-alan-macdonald/) 1. [History, Animated, Quick and Uneuphemistic](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/15/great-and-telling-tales-of-history/) 1. [The Real Beauty Industry](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/10/advanced-beauty/) 1. [In other news…](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/16/grills-gone-wild/) 1. [Retro Revival: The Depths of Soul](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/12/sir-shambling-deep-soul/) 1. [Giving Design](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/08/yves-behar-xo-laptop/) 1. [RSS Minimalism](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/04/helvetireader/) 1. [2008 in Album Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/02/best-album-art-2008/) 1. [Small World, Big Bite](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/28/matthew-carden-small-world/) 1. [Geek Wednesdays: The Ephemeral Web](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/03/geek-wednesdays-the-ephemeral-web/) 1. [World AIDS Day 2008: Join the Fight](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/12/01/world-aids-day-2008/) 1. [Photoshop: As Real As It Gets](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/26/photoshop-sweded/) 1. [Photography Spotlight: The Obama Phenomenon](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/25/photography-spotlight-scout-tufankjian-obama/) 1. [I Met The Walrus: Lennon’s Brain Animated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/21/jerry-levitan-i-met-the-walrus/) 1. [Life on Google](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/19/life-on-google/) 1. [6 Signs the Apocalypse Cometh](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/24/6-signs-the-apocalypse-cometh/) 1. [Tidying Up Art: Ursus Wehrli Deconstructs Iconic Paintings](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/20/tidying-up-art/) 1. [Mac in the Produce Aisle](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/18/apple-apples/) 1. [Playing Nice: 5 Pro-Social Web Games](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/17/playing-nice-top-5-charity-games/) 1. [Army Goes Ghost](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/12/quantum-ghost-imaging/) 1. [Buddhist Bottle Temple](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/07/buddhist-bottle-temple/) 1. [Artist Spotlight: Teddy Zareva](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/13/artist-spotlight-teddy-zareva/) 1. [Child Art for Grown-Ups](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/11/child-art-for-grownups/) 1. [Blooper Troopers](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/06/cool-error-pages/) 1. [Best of Election Season Innovation](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/04/best-of-election-innovation/) 1. [Don’t Click It](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/01/dont-click-it/) 1. [Chris Jordan’s Photographic Visualizations of Excess](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/29/chris-jordan-running-the-numbers/) 1. [Geek Mondays: Dating Data Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/11/03/jonathan-harris-i-want-you-to-want-me/) 1. [Pepsi: Can It?](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/30/pepsi-can-it/) 1. [Starving Artist No More](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/28/russian-sausage-art/) 1. [Geek Mondays: Unlimited Solar Power](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/27/unlimited-solar-power/) 1. [Nomadic Living 2.0](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/23/prototype-pod-house/) 1. [Creative Clockwork](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/21/5-creative-ads-using-clocks/) 1. [Photography Spotlight: Blue Planet Run](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/24/blue-planet-run/) 1. [Dan Price, Revealed](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/22/dan-price-revealed/) 1. [Bell’s Underdog: Elisha Gray and the Telephone](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/20/telephone-invention-controversy/) 1. [Furniture Design Spotlight: HUG Chair](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/16/hug-armchair/) 1. [Mad Men Illustrated](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/13/mad-men-illustrated/) 1. [Banksy’s Pet Project](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/10/bansky-pet-shop/) 1. [The Other Electorate](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/15/the-other-electorate/) 1. [Geek Mondays: LEGO Time](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/13/lego-digital-designer/) 1. [The Mother of All Music Visualization](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/09/the-mother-of-all-music-visualization/) 1. [LED The Way](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/08/led-the-way/) 1. [She, Him & Us](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/07/she-him-us/) 1. [(P)hilly PARK(ing)](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/05/philly-parking-day/) 1. [Breaking: YouTube Clicks Into Retail](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/07/breaking-youtube-clicks-into-retail/) 1. [Image Search Redefined](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/06/image-search-redefined/) 1. [Reverse Psychology Halloween Edition](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/03/reverse-psychology-halloween-edition/) 1. [Mac Guy Speaks Up](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/02/mac-guy-speaks-up/) 1. [Artist Spotlight: Adrian Johnson](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/09/30/adrian-johnson/) 1. [The Genographic Project: DNA Testing Hits Home](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/09/29/the-genographic-project/) 1. [Deadliest Itch: Malaria Awareness Mosquito-Mosaic Posters](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/10/01/malaria-awareness/) 1. [Cartography by the People](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/09/30/hand-drawn-map-association/) 1. [You Better Believe It](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/09/25/you-better-believe-it/) 1. [Spotlight Series: Gimme Moore](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/09/23/michael-moore-slacker-uprising/) 1. [Hidden Music Top 3](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/09/15/hidden-music-top-3/) 1. [Sky Blue Sky](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/09/09/sky-blue-sky/) 1. [Globe-Trotting Goodness](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/09/18/globe-trotting-goodness/) 1. [Retro Blast](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/09/12/retro-blast/) 1. [New York, New York](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/09/05/new-york-new-york/) 1. [Quick Brains-Up](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/08/23/quick-brains-up/) 1. [Live Responsible is the New LIVESTRONG](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/08/15/live-responsible-is-the-new-livestrong/) 1. [Inner Kid Fodder](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/08/07/inner-kid-fodder/) 1. [It Happened Today](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/08/18/it-happened-today/) 1. [Monkey See Monkey Make NBC Look Bad](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/08/08/cool-olympics-bbc-promo-video/) 1. [Blame It on the Weatherman](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/08/01/blame-it-on-the-weatherman/) 1. [Scrabulous Down, Scrabble Downer](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/07/30/scrabulous-down-scrabble-downer/) 1. [Friday FYI: You’re Richer Than You Think](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/07/25/you-are-richer-than-you-think/) 1. [Friday FYI: Itchy Throat](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/07/18/friday-fyi-itchy-throat/) 1. [Street Pickings: Riding Rebels](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/07/28/street-pickings-riding-rebels/) 1. [Re:Perception](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/07/22/reperception/) 1. [Inflated Claims of Art](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/07/16/more-street-art/) 1. [Oh, Conan](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/07/16/paul-pierce-on-conan/) 1. [Power to the People](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/07/07/ryan-howard-vs-vladimir-guerrero-home-run-derby/) 1. [Carriers Rethought](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/30/top-4-repurposed-carriers-and-containers/) 1. [Artist Spotlight: Alice Wang](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/07/10/artist-spotlight-alice-wang/) 1. [Friday FYI: Happy Place](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/07/04/happy-place/) 1. [Friday FYI: The Legal Performance-Enhancer](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/27/the-legal-performance-enhancer/) 1. [The Reel Stuff: Top 3 Sites for Harcore Film Buffs](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/24/top-3-sites-for-film-buffs/) 1. [Animal Farm](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/18/animal-farm/) 1. [Friday FYI: Stop the Hiccups](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/13/stop-the-hiccups/) 1. [Friday FYI: Toothache Be Gone](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/20/toothache-be-gone/) 1. [Mobile Madness](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/16/mobile-madness/) 1. [Just Press Rewind](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/10/just-press-rewind/) 1. [Friday FYI: Hate Mornings Less](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/06/friday-fyi-hate-mornings-less/) 1. [RFID vs. Honor](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/02/ubicycle-rfid-bike-share/) 1. [Layman Voyeurism](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/29/layman-voyeurism/) 1. [Customization Gone Wild](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/06/05/customization-gone-wild/) 1. [Friday FYI: Auditory Freedom](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/30/friday-fyi-auditory-freedom/) 1. [Birdseye Visionaire](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/23/birdseye-visionaire/) 1. [Superhero Superdose](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/21/superhero-superdose/) 1. [Hodgepodge of Cool | Mindless Fun](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/14/top-5-sites-for-mindless-fun/) 1. [Reclaiming Urban Landscape | Part 4](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/08/7-coolest-guerrilla-art-social-statements/) 1. [Hodgepodge of Cool | SHEEP!](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/16/the-very-best-of-random-sheep-coolness/) 1. [Incredible Edibles](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/12/5-cool-food-concepts/) 1. [5 Ways to Get More of Life in the City](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/07/5-ways-to-get-the-most-out-of-city-life/) 1. [Reclaiming Urban Landscape: Graffiti Subversion](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/06/top-5-groundbreaking-graffiti-artwork/) 1. [Down With The Man | Part 1](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/27/down-with-the-man-part-1/) 1. [Govit: A New Social Network for the Politically-Minded](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/27/down-with-the-man-part-5/) 1. [Reclaiming Urban Landscape | Part 1](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/05/05/top-5-urban-design-greenifications/) 1. [Down With The Man | Part 2](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/27/down-with-the-man-part-2/) 1. [Down With The Man | Part 4](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/27/down-with-the-man-part-4/) 1. [Down With The Man | Part 5](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/27/down-with-the-man-part-5-2/) 1. [Down With The Man | Part 7](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/27/down-with-the-man-part-7/) 1. [Earth Day the Wired Way](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/22/earth-day-the-wired-way/) 1. [Down With The Man | Part 6](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/27/down-with-the-man-part-6/) 1. [Hear Ye, Hear Ye](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/25/hear-ye-hear-ye/) 1. [7 Ways To Free Yourself](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/17/7-ways-to-free-yourself/) 1. [B-Sides and Breakaways](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/11/b-sides-and-breakaways/) 1. [The Nonjudgmental Issue](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/03/28/the-nonjudgmental-issue/) 1. [Context vs. Controversy](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/03/14/context-vs-controversy/) 1. [Concepts Revisited](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/04/04/concepts-revisited/) 1. [All Things Hacked](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/03/21/all-things-hacked/) 1. [Re:thought](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/03/07/rethought/) 1. [Living Design](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/02/29/living-design/) 1. [No Rim Kiss Needed](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/02/12/no-rim-kiss-needed/) 1. [SPECIAL: Because It Is](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/02/05/special-because-it-is/) 1. [Get Stuff Done](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/02/22/get-stuff-done/) 1. [New Ways of Doing](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/02/08/new-ways-of-doing/) 1. [Unexpected Sources](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/02/01/unexpected-sources/) 1. [Geography, Topography, and Everythingography](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/01/25/geography-topography-and-everythingography/) 1. [Feeling Thoughts, Playing Visions](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/01/11/feeling-thoughts-playing-visions/) 1. [Culture-Crossing Subcultures](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/01/18/culture-crossing-subcultures/) 1. [Gags, Drags and Other Oddities](https://www.brainpickings.org/2008/01/06/gag-drags-and-other-oddities/) ## 2007 1. [SPECIAL: Second Annual Not-So-Much Awards](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/12/31/special-second-annual-not-so-much-awards/) 1. [Fine, It’s The Holidays](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/12/13/fine-its-the-holidays/) 1. [Eye Wonder](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/11/30/eye-wonder/) 1. [The Last and the Curious](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/12/20/the-last-and-the-curious/) 1. [Think, Or Don’t](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/12/07/think-or-dont/) 1. [Didn’t See It Coming](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/11/24/didnt-see-it-coming/) 1. [All Kinds of Shakers](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/11/16/all-kinds-of-shakers/) 1. [Price Tags of Life](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/10/31/price-tags-of-life/) 1. [Things To Look At, Things To See](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/10/19/things-to-look-at-things-to-see/) 1. [Angles, Visions and Illusions](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/11/09/angles-visions-and-illusions/) 1. [Expectation Shmexpectation](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/10/25/expectation-shmexpectation/) 1. [Hits, Punches and Other Impact](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/10/11/hits-punches-and-other-impact/) 1. [The Bookworm Issue](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/10/05/the-bookworm-issue/) 1. [This Week…](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/09/28/this-week/) 1. [Flying with the Future while Mooning the Past](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/09/17/flying-with-the-future-while-mooning-the-past/) 1. [In The Spotlight](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/10/02/spotlight-series/) 1. [Gadgetry, Widgetry and You-name-itgetry](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/09/21/gadgetry-widgetry-and-younameitgetry/) 1. [Big, Tall and Pushing the Other Dimensions](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/09/11/big-tall-and-pushing-the-other-dimensions/) 1. [Special](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/09/05/special-brain-pickings-salutes/) 1. [Mmm-Hmmm](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/08/30/6/) 1. [Sex and Sensibility](https://www.brainpickings.org/2007/09/04/sex-and-sensibility/)