A Stunning Serenade to Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation – The Marginalian
We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set […]
What the Youngest Members of Our Young Species Most Cherish About Life on Earth – The Marginalian
“Out of the cradle onto the dry land… here it is standing… atoms with consciousness… matter with curiosity,” Richard Feynman
Human Nature and the Nature of Reality, from Zeno to Heisenberg to Borges – The Marginalian
“This is a participatory universe… Observer-participancy gives rise to information,” the visionary physicist John Archibald Wheeler wrote a generation before
The Paradox of Free Will – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova “Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom,” James Baldwin observed in recognizing how limited
The Illustrated Life of Trailblazing Journalist Nellie Bly, Who Paved the Way for Women in Media – The Marginalian
As a lover of picture-book biographies of cultural icons and an ardent admirer of trailblazing journalist, proto-feminist, and daring media
A 21st-Century Illuminated Manuscript – The Marginalian
“Still this childish fascination with my handwriting,” young Susan Sontag wrote in her diary in 1949. “To think that I