Search results for “beauty”
Dirge Without Music: Emmy Noether, Symmetry, and the Conservation of Energy (Amanda Palmer Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay, Animated by Sophie Blackall)
“Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.”
Wonder, Hungry Wolves, and the Whimsy of Resilience: Arthur Rackham’s Haunting 1920 Illustrations for Irish Fairy Tales
A lyrical reminder that our terror and our tenderness spring from the same source.
How to Fix a World: A Four-Year-Old’s Prayerful Poem, Animated by a Ukrainian Artist
An 84-second revelation in the heart, from humanity at its most purehearted.
The Fragile Species: A Forgotten Masterpiece of Perspective on How to Live with Ourselves and Each Other
“We need a better word than chance… To go all the way from a clone of archaebacteria, in just 3.7 billion years, to the B-Minor Mass and the Late Quartets, deserves a better technical term for the record than randomness.”
Let There Always Be Light: Dark Matter and the Mystery of Our Mortal Stardust (Patti Smith Reads Rebecca Elson)
“For this we go out dark nights, searching… for signs of unseen things… Let there be swarms of them, enough for immortality, always a star where we can warm ourselves.”
David Byrne’s Illustrated History of the Possible Future
“The way things were, the way we made things, it turns out, none of it was inevitable — none of it is the way things have to be.”
Cosmic Consolation for Human Hardship: The Great Naturalist John Burroughs on How to Live with Life
“One of the best things a man can bring into the world with him is a natural humility of spirit. About the next best thing he can bring, and they usually go together, is an appreciative spirit — a loving and susceptible heart.”
Singularity: An Animated Ode to Our Primeval Bond with Nature and Each Other (Toshi Reagon Sings Marissa Davis)
A song of praise for life and “the smallest possible once before once.”
Nina Simone’s Gum and the Shimmering Strangeness of How Art Casts Its Transcendent Spell on Us
The metaphysical made physical in a symphonic celebration of imagination, collaboration, and the human heart.
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