Reads tagged with “science”
Secrets from the Center of the World: Poet Joy Harjo’s Reflections on Science and Meaning in Response to an Astronomer’s Otherworldly Photographs of Earth
“I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.”
A Cenotaph for Newton: The Poetry of Public Spaces, the Architecture of Shadow, and How Trees Inspired the World’s First Planetarium Design
How a forgotten visionary’s futuristic dream dared generations to reimagine the relationship between nature and human creativity.
How Pythagoras and Sappho Radicalized Music and Revolutionized the World
The story of the invention of the love song, the world’s first algorithm, and the mathematics of transcendence.
A Scientist’s Advice on Healing: A Soulful Animated Poem About Getting to the Other Side of Heartbreak
“Try to accept this fat red hurt is your starting point.”
Stunning Celestial Art from the 1750 Astronomy Book That First Described the Spiral Shape of the Milky Way and Dared Imagine the Existence of Other Galaxies
The story of a forgotten visionary suspended between science and spiritual yearning, who inspired Kant and anticipated Hubble.
Immunity, Interdependence, and the Shared Root of Our Safety and Our Sanity: Eula Biss on the Science and Social Dynamics of Health as Communal Trust
“We are protected not so much by our own skin, but by what is beyond it. The boundaries between our bodies begin to dissolve here… Immunity… is a common trust as much as it is a private account.”
Wintering: Resilience, the Wisdom of Sadness, and How the Science of Trees Illuminates the Art of Self-Renewal Through Difficult Times
“Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly as a knife.”
The Pattern Inside the Pattern: Fractals, the Hidden Order Beneath Chaos, and the Story of the Refugee Who Revolutionized the Mathematics of Reality
“In the mind’s eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.”
Road to Survival: Wisdom on Resilience from the Forgotten Visionary Who Shaped the Modern Environmental Movement
“If we ourselves do not govern our destiny, firmly and courageously, no one is going to do it for us.”
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