Reads by Maria Popova

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Reads by Maria Popova

What dancing ballerinas and hungry kings have to do with the dawn of the digital age.

From basement art to media glory, or why ones and zeros are the new chalk.

How to become a pixel in the collaborative portrait of the world.

The beauty of surrender, or why a whole new color spectrum lives between black and white.

Eight ways to move beyond prettiness, or what the BBC has to do with the appreciation of abstraction.

What Leonardo da Vinci has to do with film noir and the Guinness Book of Records.

What striking down Hitler has to do with laying the groundwork for the iPhone.

What dragons have to do with civic identity and geolocation scavenger hunts.

What plastic chairs have to do with German partisanship and how women use the kitchen.

Why love is not an emotion and how obsessive thinking begets romantic joy.

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