Reads tagged with “science”
Crescendo: A Watercolor Ode to the Science, Strangeness, and Splendor of Pregnancy
From sesame seed to selfhood, a lyrical serenade to the astonishing process by which we all enter the world.
Trailblazing 18th-Century Artist Sarah Stone’s Stunning Natural History Paintings of Exotic, Endangered, and Extinct Species
Potoroos, birds of paradise, variegated lizards, and other wondrous creatures brought to vibrant life by a visionary woman in the golden age of scientific exploration.
The Devil Teaches Thermodynamics: Sean Ono Lennon Reads Nobel-Winning Chemist and Poet Roald Hoffmann’s Ode to Entropy
An incantation to “join the imperfect universe at peace with the disorder that orders.”
After Silence: Amanda Palmer Reads Neil Gaiman’s Stunning Poem Celebrating Rachel Carson’s Legacy of Culture-Shifting Courage
“Nothing is ever over / life breathes life in its turn / Sometimes the people listen / Sometimes the people learn”
Jane Goodall’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Reading Shaped Her Life
How a public library and a messy second-hand bookshop helped a small girl with no money and big dreams change the face of science.
Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning
“It is only a narrow passage of truth (no matter whether scientific or other truth) that passes between the Scylla of a blue fog of mysticism and the Charybdis of a sterile rationalism. This will always be full of pitfalls and one can fall down on both sides.”
These Truths: Jill Lepore on How the Shift from Mythology to Science Shaped the Early Dream of Democracy
“The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden. It can’t be shirked. You carry it everywhere. There’s nothing for it but to get to know it.”
The Year of the Whale: A Lyrical Illustrated Serenade to One of Our Planet’s Most Precious Creatures
“Moving through a dim, dark, cool, watery world of its own, the whale is timeless and ancient; part of our common heritage and yet remote, awful, prowling the ocean floor a half-mile down, under the guidance of powers and senses we are only beginning to grasp.”
The More Loving One: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads W.H. Auden’s Sublime Ode to Our Unrequited Love for the Universe
“If equal affection cannot be, / Let the more loving one be me.”
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