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Lights On: Consciousness, the Mystery of Felt Experience, and the Fundamental Music of Reality

Brainpickings 03 Apr 2025
I would say got me a hamster, but they were still in their twenties and delighted in him just as much — a handsome caramel fellow with a confident curiosity about his tiny world ... So he became The Hamster ... Wassily Kandinsky ... Infrared photograph ... .
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Carl Linnaeus’s Flower Clock

Brainpickings 02 Apr 2025
“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours,” the Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne observed in his 1964 classic Games People Play ... The first clocks were a revolution, a revelation, a civilizing force ... H ... .
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Walt Whitman on Owning Your Life

Brainpickings 30 Mar 2025
At the bottom of the abyss between us is the hard fact that to be a person, a particular person, is so profoundly different from what any other person can suppose ... Walt Whitman circa 1854 (Library of Congress) ... He writes in one of the poems. ... .
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On Play

Brainpickings 28 Mar 2025
The necessities of survival make our lives livable, but everything that makes them worth living partakes of the art of the unnecessary ... Play is one of those things ... One of Salvador Dalí’s lost illustrations for Alice in Wonderland ... newsletter ... .
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Comets, Orbits, and the Mystery We Are: The Enchanted Celestial Mechanics of Australian Artist Shane Drinkwater

Brainpickings 26 Mar 2025
“We are bathing in mystery and confusion,” Carl Sagan told his best interviewer. “That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.” ... We make art ... wonder, beauty, love ... newsletter ... .
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Wayne's Gun Part 1: 1924, A Time-Travel Themed Musical By Award-Winning Artist Olga S Popova Released

MENA FN 22 Mar 2025
(MENAFN - EIN Presswire). NY, UNITED STATES, March 22, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- March 14, 2025, marked the official release of Wayne's Gun Part 1. 1924, the first part of a time-travel-themed musical ... .
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The Half Room of Living and Loving

Brainpickings 22 Mar 2025
When I can’t sleep, I read children’s books. One night, I discovered In the Half Room (public library) by Carson Ellis in my tsundoku — an impressionistic invitation into a world where only half of everything exists ... Mrs ... newsletter ... .
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How to Get Out of Your Own Way: John Berryman on Defeating the Three Demons ...

Brainpickings 19 Mar 2025
John Allyn Smith, Jr. was eleven when, early one morning in the interlude between two world wars, not long after his parents had filed for divorce, he was awakened by a loud bang beneath his bedroom window ... John Berryman ... 1 ... 2 ... 3. over-ambitiousness ... .
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How to Meet Your Mystery: Thomas Merton on Solitude and the Soul

Brainpickings 18 Mar 2025
our birth, to begin with; our talents; great love ... And, as the teenage Sylvia Plath told her mother, “once a poem is made available to the public, the right of interpretation belongs to the reader.” Solitude by Maria Popova ... He writes. ... .
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Matt Richtman becomes first American man to win LA Marathon in 31 years

The Guardian 16 Mar 2025
25-year-old was competing in only his second marathonTejinesh Tulu of Ethiopia takes women’s title ... ....
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Any Common Desolation

Brainpickings 15 Mar 2025
“You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive.” ... All that centering, all that glazing, all the hours of pressing letterforms into the wet clay — all of it in shiny shards ... Breaking alive ... .
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