Reads tagged with “Janna Levin”
The Best of Brain Pickings 2020
A glance over the shoulder of time to reveal the patterns, themes, and ideas that steady us and shelter us in the tempest of life.
The Universe in Verse 2019: Full Show
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Walt Whitman’s Stunning Serenade to Our Interlaced Lives Across Space and Time
“It avails not, time nor place… What is it then between us?… It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, the dark threw its patches down upon me also.”
Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads “The Weighing” by Jane Hirshfield: An Ode to Resilience
A well to the groundwater of our strength.
May 29, 1919: The Animated Story of How Eddington’s Historic Eclipse Expedition Confirmed Relativity, Catapulted Einstein into Celebrity, and United Humanity
How one of humanity’s greatest scientific achievements became one of humanity’s most humane moments, uniting a divided world under the same sky after its darkest hour.
Favorite Books of 2020
Audre Lorde, Keith Haring, Bruce Lee, chance, love, black holes, constraint as a catalyst of creativity, and a whisper of Whitman.
Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Our Creaturely Tremblings of Heart
“Sometimes as an antidote to fear of death, I eat the stars.”
The Best of Brain Pickings 2019
Love, poetry, friendship, solitude, and lots of trees.
Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
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