Blog Profile / Brain Pickings
| URL : | http://www.brainpickings.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Odd | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1424 | |
| Posts / Week: | 14.6 | |
| Archived Since: | July 13, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
No Kidding: Women Writers and Comedians on the Choice Not to Have Children
"Motherhood Personality Disorder, or MPD, is a complex, interfamilial compulsion fueled by estrogen, culture, religion, and the Family Values Industrial Complex." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. Show More Summary
Fail Safe: Debbie Millman’s Advice on Courage and the Creative Life
"Imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Happy Birthday, Brian Eno: The Father of Ambient Music on Art
"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Happy 100th Birthday, Heinz Haber: Disney’s Chief Scientist Explains the Atom
What Aristotle, Aladdin, and Captain Nemo teach us about the promise of nuclear energy. Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Make Good Art: Neil Gaiman’s Advice on the Creative Life, Adapted by Design Legend Chip Kidd
Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
The Mighty Lalouche: A Heartening Underdog Story Illustrated by the Great Sophie Blackall
What Parisian boxing from the early 1900s has to do with our contemporary technoparanoia about robots replacing us. Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
How to Make the Perfect Cup of Tea: George Orwell’s 11 Golden Rules
"One strong cup of tea is better than twenty weak ones. All true tea lover snot only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. Show More Summary
How to Worry Less About Money
What Goethe can teach us about cultivating a healthy relationship with our finances. Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Greil Marcus SVA Commencement Address: How the Division of High vs. Low Robs Culture of Its Essence
"What art does … is tell us, make us feel that what we think we know, we don't." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Don’t Go Back to School: How to Fuel the Internal Engine of Learning
"When you step away from the prepackaged structure of traditional education, you’ll discover that there are many more ways to learn outside school than within." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. Show More Summary
The Politics of Homosexuality, 20 Years Later
"Silence, if it does not equal death, equals the living equivalent." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
From Abigail Adams to Anne Sexton to Maya Angleou, History’s Finest Letters of Motherly Advice
"Live to the HILT!" Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Darwin’s Daily Routine
"Darwin made a point of replying to every letter he received, even those from obvious fools or cranks." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Uncommon Grounds: How Coffee Changed the World
"In the form of a hot infusion of its ground, roasted seeds, coffee is consumed for its bittersweet bouquet, its mind-racing jump start, and social bonding." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. Show More Summary
Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose: The Science of What Motivates Us, Animated
"When the profit motive gets unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
David Foster Wallace’s Timeless Graduation Speech on the Meaning of Life, Adapted in a Short Film
"The real value of a real education … has almost nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do with simple awareness." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Raymond Chandler on Writing
"The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Our Objects, Ourselves
"If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Nellie Was a Lady: 1945 Radio Dramatization of Pioneering Female Journalist Nellie Bly’s Life
"The life, loves, and laughter of one of America's most fascinating women." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.
Letters to Ms.: How Mary Thom (RIP) Built “Social Media” for Women’s Rights in the 1970s
Celebrating the invisible art of making a movement visible. Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I'm doing something right.