Brain Pickings - Broad Nib News Aggregator

Brain Pickings

The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science

The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster...

2 months ago 14

The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up

The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What...

2 months ago 12

Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions

Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions

2 months ago 14

What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life

What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood ...

2 months ago 14

How to Live Fully: The Samurai Guide to Dying Every Day

How to Live Fully: The Samurai Guide to Dying Ever...

2 months ago 12

Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are

Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Conver...

2 months ago 15

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Begi...

2 months ago 13

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: T...

2 months ago 16

How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged

How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Mo...

2 months ago 16

Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means

Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgive...

2 months ago 15

How to Survive Hopelessness: The Remarkable Story of a Shipwrecked Family

How to Survive Hopelessness: The Remarkable Story ...

2 months ago 15

Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall

Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Lovi...

2 months ago 12

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

3 months ago 13

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psych...

3 months ago 16

How Nature Imagined the Figment of You

How Nature Imagined the Figment of You

3 months ago 14

A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music

A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Mus...

3 months ago 11

Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller

Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storytell...

3 months ago 7

Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor

Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving E...

3 months ago 12