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Voice is a garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations

The Invention of Zero

The poetic science of how cicadas sing

Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Alan Watts on Money vs. Wealth (2014)

A parliament of owls and a murder of crows: How groups of birds got their names

Why Time Slows Down During Fear, Speeds Up as We Age and Gets Warped on Vacation

Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)

Mars and Our Search for Meaning

What is an emotion? William James’s theory of how our bodies affect our feelings

Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)

De Beauvoir on the art of aging

A Life of One’s Own: Marion Milner (2017)

A seamstress who solved the ancient mystery of the Argonaut

Psychedelic Dinosaurs, Four-Dimensional Hummingbirds, and How We Got Our Vision

The Fine Art of Italian Hand Gestures: A Vintage Visual Dictionary

How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (2014)

200 Years of Frankenstein (2018)

Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Means

Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit”

A Life of One’s Own: Marion Milner

A Design History of Childhood (2013)

The story behind Beethoven's “Ode to Joy”

Yo-Yo Ma Performs Richard Feynman’s Ode to the Wonder of Life, Animated

Tenacity, the Art of Integration, and the Key to a Flexible Mind

The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior

How Carl Jung and Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli Bridged Mind and Matter

The Geometry of Grief

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