Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova In the final years of his long life, which encompassed world wars and assassinations and numerous terrors, the great cellist and human […]
Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times – The Marginalian
Along the way of life, I have discovered three things you can almost always do in your darkest hour that almost never fail to recover […]
The airplane oath | Seth’s Blog
You’re flying over Mount Rainier and a hole opens up in the bottom of your airplane. In that moment, you think hard about what you’ve […]
Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair – The Marginalian
“There is no love of life without despair of life,” Albert Camus wrote between two world wars. There are many species of despair — the […]
Let Your Heart Be Broken – The Marginalian
We spend our lives trying to anchor our transience in some illusion of permanence and stability. We lay plans, we make vows, we backbone the […]
Empathy is difficult | Seth’s Blog
Empathy is difficult | Seth’s Blog It requires skill and effort. It can be taught. And it’s worth prioritizing. When we wing it, allocate little […]
Chilean Artist Alejandra Acosta’s Wondrous Embroidered Illustrations for This World’s First Book Theorizing Life on Other Worlds – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova It is the sunset of the 1600s. Milton has just pioneered the use of the word space to connote outer space. Kepler […]
3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever – The Marginalian
Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around others (if we are lucky and loved), […]
Dream physics | Seth’s Blog
In our dreams, the laws of thermodynamics don’t apply, and gravity works in strange ways. We can jump across a chasm and stick the landing […]
Embodiment and the (Re)invention of Emoji, from the Aztecs to Humboldt and Darwin to AI – The Marginalian
By the time he published Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique, Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769–May 6, 1859), barely in […]
