Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth – The Marginalian
It takes a great sobriety of spirit to know our depths and our limits, to know where we end and […]
Peter Kropotkin on the Crucial Difference Between Love, Sympathy, and Solidarity – The Marginalian
“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” Whitman wrote in what may be the most elemental definition
The Science of What Made You You, with a Dazzling Poem Read by David Byrne – The Marginalian
We are each a chance constellation of elements forged in long-dead stars assembled by gravity, which may be the other
Legendary Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Death and the Life-Force – The Marginalian
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier,” Walt Whitman writes in the prime of life. “What
An Illustrated Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Deepest Humanity – The Marginalian
“All the poems of our lives are not yet made. We hear them crying to us,” Muriel Rukeyser writes in
Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life – The Marginalian
Meaning is not something we find — it is something we make, and the puzzle pieces are often the fragments
Euler’s Disk and the Sound of the Singularity – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova One afternoon in the late 1980s, sitting in the company cafeteria, aerospace engineer Joseph Bendik found himself