Why Your Brain Turns The Miraculous Into The Mundane—And How To Fix It | Maria Popova
26 August 2024 - 1 hour 12 minsSmart and practical strategies for living, in Maria's words, wonder-smitten by reality.
Maria Popova thinks and writes about our search for meaning — sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian (born in 2006 under the name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials, author of Figuring, and maker of the live show The Universe in Verse — a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry, which is now also a book.
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