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The Conscience of Color, from Chemistry to Culture
“Colors are not possessions; they are the intimate revelations of an energy field… light waves with mathematically precise lengths… deep, resonant mysteries with boundless subjectivity… Our lives, when we pay attention to light, compel us to empathy with color.”
Citizen Science, the Cosmos, and the Meaning of Life: How the Comet That Might One Day Destroy Us Gives Us the Most Transcendent Celestial Spectacle
Encounters with the beautiful and the sublime in the science of “the single most dangerous object known to humanity.”
Love and Symmetry: Poet A. Van Jordan Imagines the Undelivered Feynman Lecture About the Mystery Lying Between Scientific Truth and Human Meaning
“Mysteries inside mysteries in our own bodies of which we can’t make sense, another world waiting for a religion or calculus to explain.”
Maria Mitchell’s Telescope and the Kickstarting of Popular Astronomy: The Heartening Story of the World’s First Crowdfunding Campaign for Science
“Patient thought, patient labor, and firmness of purpose are almost omnipotent.”
A Cenotaph for Newton: The Poetry of Public Spaces, the Architecture of Shadow, and How Trees Inspired the World’s First Planetarium Design
How a forgotten visionary’s futuristic dream dared generations to reimagine the relationship between nature and human creativity.
Matter, Music, and the Mind
“Sound is sea: pattern lapping pattern… Matter delights in music, and became Bach.”
Between Science and Magic: How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible
How a tiny creature faster than the Space Shuttle balances the impossible equation of extreme fragility and superhuman strength.
Growing Through Grief: Derek Jarman on Gardening as Creative Redemption, Consecration of Time, and Training Ground for Presence
“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.”
Seeking an Aurora: A Wondrous Illustrated Celebration of Earth’s Most Otherworldly Spectacle of Light and Color
Transcendence and tenderness in the lacuna of awe between the creaturely and the cosmic.
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