Reads tagged with “history”
Ray Bradbury on Storytelling, Friendship, and Why He Never Learned to Drive: A Lost Vintage Interview, Found and Animated
“You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. And then your public reads you and it begins to gather around.”
JFK on Poetry, Power, and the Artist’s Role in Society: His Eulogy for Robert Frost, One of the Greatest Speeches of All Time
“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”
Non-human Animals and the Human Imagination: Thinking with Other Beings, from Aesop to Darwin to YouTube
How metaphors of nonhuman beings help us give shape to the human experience and make sense of our inner lives.
Stunning Cyanotypes of Sea Algae by the Self-Taught Victorian Botanist Anna Atkins, the First Woman Photographer and a Pioneer of Scientific Illustration
Beautiful blueness from a trailblazing woman in science.
Richard Feynman on How His Father Taught Him about What Is Most Important
How to plant the seed for the lifelong pleasure of finding things out.
The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: The Extraordinary Edible Record of Two Women Explorers’ Journey to the End of the World
“In Antarctica, everything is stripped down… It is only who you are and what you do that counts.”
Delacroix’s Rare Illustrations for Goethe’s Faust
“Goethe … peered into the mysteries of human existence with a hope of solving the imponderables that hold the lives of men enmeshed.”
The Illustrated Story of Harvey Milk, Humanitarian Martyr for Love
How a little boy with big ears grew up to hear the cry for social justice and answered it with a clarion call for equality in the kingdom of love.
Simone Weil on Temptation, the Key to Discipline, and How to Be a Complete Human Being
“Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.”
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