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Maria Popova

Maria Popova

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Maria Popova
theatlantic.com

Wheels of Change: How the Bicycle Empowered Women - The Atlantic

Speed for escaping chaperones. Less burdensome clothes for riding. The bicycle’s little-known role in equal rights.
theatlantic.com

Bibliographic: The 100 Best Design Books of the Past 100 Years - Th...

An exercise in metadesign: a design book about design books points amateurs and experts alike to beauty and inspiration
theatlantic.com

Musical Sculptures Translate Weather Data Into Art - The Atlantic

Nathalie Miebach crosses disciplinary boundaries to combine data visualization with color, shape, and sound
theatlantic.com

Noma Bar's Minimalist Vector Portraits of Cultural Icons - The Atla...

The Israeli illustrator’s images of everyone from Einstein and Stalin to Bill Murray crackle with humor, smarts, and wit
theatlantic.com

'Where Children Sleep': A Round-the-World Tour of Bedrooms - The At...

From a teahouse for geishas-in-training to a hut in the Amazon, a book captures the diversity of kids’-room interior design
theatlantic.com

'Science Ink': Carl Zimmer Catalogs the Tattoos of Science Nerds - ...

A weird and wonderful almanac of the lovable geeks who immortalized passion for science on their living flesh from a celebrated writer
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From 'Brothers Grimm' to 'Stuck,' the 11 Best Picture Books of 2011...

What Richard Dawkins has to do with Hindu deities, from evil stepmothers to Edward Gorey, and a posthumous work from Shel Silverstein

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From 'Farm Anatomy' to 'Art of the Menu,' the Best Food Books of 20...

This year’s list of the best food books includes everything from a 48-pound behemoth with over 1,000 recipes to a look at menu design.
theatlantic.com

A Healthy Information Diet: The Case for Conscious Consumption - Th...

Why “information overload” is the wrong lens through which to consider the issue, or what sugar and fat have to do with Hollywood junk.
theatlantic.com

Re-Imagining the Paper Airplane - The Atlantic

20 of today’s most exciting artists redesign the childhood staple.
smithsonianmag.com

Combinatorial Creativity and the Myth of Originality | Innovation -...

The power of the synthesizing mind and the building blocks of combinatorial creativity
theatlantic.com

Rum Etymology: Why Hangovers Make Us 'Groggy' - The Atlantic

How a British admiral shaped the language
theatlantic.com

John Keats's Porridge, Allen Ginsberg's Borscht: Great Poets ... - ...

A literature-inspired cookbook reveals how some beloved poets nourished their creativity.
theatlantic.com

Muppets Creator Jim Henson's Never-Before-Seen Sketches - The Atlantic

A new book offers a glimpse of the Muppeteer’s early drafts of his now-beloved characters.
theatlantic.com

How to Sing, While Only Slightly Overthinking It - The Atlantic

A guide from German opera legend Lilli Lehmann
theatlantic.com

Why We're Born Optimists, and Why That's Good - The Atlantic

The innate biases that cause us to adjust our perceptions and memories toward the positive give us unique advantages.
theatlantic.com

'Nothing Any Good Isn't Hard': F. Scott Fitzgerald's Secret to Grea...

The ‘Great Gatsby’ author’s surprisingly blunt advice to would-be writers
nytimes.com

‘Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs,’ by Lisa Randall - The New York Times

Dark matter, according to Lisa Randall, may be responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs and the subsequent rise of mammals.
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Maria Popova Reviews Janna Levin’s ‘Black Hole Blues’ - The New Yor...

In “Black Hole Blues,” Janna Levin tells the story of science’s attempt to listen to the cosmos.
orionmagazine.org

The Age of the Possible - Orion Magazine

There, at the bottom of being, where the water that makes aaathis planet a world aaaaaais the color of spacetime the octopus— with
printmag.com

Monday Marginalian: Light, Dark Matter, and the Mystery of Our ... ...

Maria Popova shines a light on the late astronomer and poet Rebecca Elson with the help of Patti Smith, Ohara Hale, and Zoë Keating.