Reads by Maria Popova
The Sky in Motion: 7,000 NASA Images in a Mesmerizing Timelapse
The Earth, the Moon, the stars, and the joys of geekdom.
Coming to a Best-of-2009 List Near You
What an Anglo-Irish bard has to do with one of 2009’s yet-to-be-declared greatest albums.
Birth of an Idea: The Ride
Flying cars, exploding brains and how the creative process comes to life.
Catch of the Day
Preservation the surfer way, or why farmers’ markets are now selling condoms.
A Little Awkward
How to socialize the hipster way and get a discount at Starbucks along the way.
Uncovered Gem of the Week: Tarsem’s The Fall
25 years of cinematographic obsession, or what Nike has to do with a 6-year-old Romanian girl.
Objectified: Dissecting Design
What cinema vérité and toothbrushes have to do with the truly transformational.
Holiday Economy Examined
What our present economy has to do with 165,300 bathroom visits and 67 million dead large birds.
A Library of Human Imagination
Human imagination, cataloged and numbered, or what James Bond and King James have in common besides the James.
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