Reads tagged with “Janna Levin”

Astrophysicist and Author Janna Levin Reads “Berryman” by W.S. Merwin: Some of the Finest and Most Soul-Salving Advice on How to Stay Sane as an Artist
Tonic for living with that sacred, terrifying uncertainty with which all creative work enters the world.

A Velocity of Being: Illustrated Letters to Children about Why We Read by 121 of the Most Inspiring Humans in Our World
A labor of love 8 years in the making, featuring contributions by Jane Goodall, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Oliver, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Rebecca Solnit, Elizabeth Gilbert, Shonda Rhimes, Richard Branson, Marina Abramović, Judy Blume, and other remarkable humans living inspired and inspiring lives.

Two Hundred Years of Blue
Cerulean splendor from Goethe, Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Rachel Carson, Toni Morrison, and other literary masters.

Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Hymn to Time”
An ode to the eternal “let there be” between death and chance.

The Universe in Verse 2017: Full Show
An evening of poetry celebrating great scientists and scientific discoveries, read by beloved artists, writers, and musicians.

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.”

An Animated Field Guide to Black Holes and the Key Conundrum of Time
A dive into some of the most thrilling unsolved questions of science.

A Brave and Startling Truth: Maya Angelou’s Stunning Humanist Poem That Flew to Space, Inspired by Carl Sagan and Read by Astrophysicist Janna Levin
“Out of such chaos, of such contradiction / We learn that we are neither devils nor divines…”

7 Favorite Science Books of 2017
From trees to consciousness to black holes, an immersion into the glory of the knowable and the splendor of the unknown.

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