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Psychedelic Dinosaurs, Four-Dimensional Hummingbirds, and How We Got Our Vision: Color, Consciousness, and the Dazzling Universe of Tetrachromacy
“When we pay attention to other animals, our own world expands and deepens.”
Cloud Chambers and Cosmic Rays: The Quest to Unravel One of the Most Dazzling Mysteries of the Universe
Silk, vapor, and the substance of life.
Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Presses the Reset Button of the Brain’s Default Mode Network
“Our everyday experience does not prepare us to assimilate the gaping hugeness of the Grand Canyon or the crashing grandeur of Niagara Falls. We have no response at the ready; our usual frames of reference don’t fit.”
The Power of the Bittersweet: Susan Cain on Longing as the Fulcrum of Creativity
In search of the most transcendent solution to “the problem of being alive in a deeply flawed yet stubbornly beautiful world.”
The Science of Working Out the Body and the Soul: How the Art of Exercise Was Born, Lost, and Rediscovered
“A history of exercise is not really — or certainly not only — a history of the body. It is, equally, perhaps even primarily, a history of the mind.”
In a Library: Emily Dickinson on Why We Read and the Magic of Old Books
A love-poem to those folds in spacetime that take us back to “when Sappho was a living girl.”
Improvisation and the Quantum of Consciousness
Inside the brain’s secret portal to remembering the future.
The Human Kaleidoscope and the Unwritten Story of the World: “Radiolab” Creator Jad Abumrad’s Superb Caltech Commencement Address
A ten-year-old boy on the side of a Lebanese mountain road, three generations of monarch butterflies, and the history of the future.
Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing
“Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve… to live in the world with the absence of someone… ingrained in your understanding of the world… For the brain, [they are] simultaneously gone and also everlasting, and you are walking through two worlds at the same time.”
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