Reads tagged with “science”
You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective
“The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves.”
How Evolution Invented Faith: The Patience of the Penguin and the Art of Withstanding Abandonment
Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life
An Illustrated Field Guide to the Science and Wonder of the Clouds
John Quincy Adams on Impostor Syndrome and the True Measure of Success
Rupture Precedes Revolution: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth
“At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution.”
Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks
What Makes Life Alive and Worth Living: Vasily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness
What Birds Dream About: How Evolution Invented REM in the Avian Brain So We May Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.”
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