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An Evolutionary Anatomy of Affect: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on How and Why We Feel What We Feel
“How and what we create culturally and how we react to cultural phenomena depend on the tricks of our imperfect memories as manipulated by feelings.”
Stunning Drawings of Seaweed from a Book by Self-Taught Victorian Marine Biologist Margaret Gatty
The tenderness of feathers meets the grandeur of trees in the otherworldly life-forms of the seas, which offered an unexpected entry point for women in science.
James Gleick on How Our Cultural Fascination with Time Travel Illuminates Memory, the Nature of Time, and the Central Mystery of Human Consciousness
“Every moment alters what came before. We reach across layers of time for the memories of our memories.”
Bruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist
“If I know what I shall find, I do not want to find it. Uncertainty is the salt of life.”
A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want
“I did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it.”
Living and Loving Through Loss: Beautiful Letters of Consolation from Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists
Words of comfort and compassion from Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, Johannes Brahms, and Charles Dickens.
The Secret Life of Trees: The Astonishing Science of What Trees Feel and How They Communicate
“A tree can be only as strong as the forest that surrounds it.”
Thoreau on How to Use Civil Disobedience to Advance Justice
“Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
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