Reads tagged with “science”

Starlings and the Magic of Murmurations: A Stunning Watercolor Celebration of One of Earth’s Living Wonders

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From Heisenberg to Borges, How Human Nature Lenses the Nature of Reality

“What we are striving for lies inside us; we find ourselves in the world and the world in ourselves.”

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Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life

“It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life elsewhere, in a different place or at a different time or in a different form.”

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Eunice Newton Foote and the Birth of Climate Science: The Forgotten Woman Who Discovered the Greenhouse Effect

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The Poetic Science of the Ghost Pipe: Emily Dickinson and the Secret of Earth’s Most Supernatural Flower

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

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To Be a Person: Jane Hirshfield’s Playful and Poignant Poem About Bearing Our Human Condition

“To be a person may be possible then, after all.”

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A Stone Is a Story: An Illustrated Love Letter to Deep Time and Earth’s Memory

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The Living Wonder of Leafcutter Ants, in Mesmerizing Stop Motion

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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

“You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimately, you are the fundamental awareness out of which all these emerge.”

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Into the Blue Beyond: William Beebe’s Dazzling Account of Becoming the First Human Being to See the Deep Ocean

“It was stranger than any imagination could have conceived… an indefinable translucent blue quite unlike anything I have ever seen in the upper world.”

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Reads tagged with “science”

“What we are striving for lies inside us; we find ourselves in the world and the world in ourselves.”

“It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life elsewhere, in a different place or at a different time or in a different form.”

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

“To be a person may be possible then, after all.”

“You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimately, you are the fundamental awareness out of which all these emerge.”

“It was stranger than any imagination could have conceived… an indefinable translucent blue quite unlike anything I have ever seen in the upper world.”

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