“At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable.” “We call it ‘Nature’; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be ‘Nature’ too,” Denise Levertov wrote in her revelation of a poem “Sojourns in the Parallel World” a generation after history’s most poetic […]
“Every plant one tends he falls in love with… Only persons of perennial genius attract or recreate as the plants, and of books we may say the same, as of the magic of solitude.” “I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy,” Louisa May Alcott wrote in her diary just after […]
How a visionary turned the art of noticing into a leap of science. “I have marveled at the green urchins on a Maine shore, clinging to the exposed rock at low water of spring tides, where the beautiful coralline algae spread a rose-colored crust beneath the shining green of their bodies,” Rachel Carson wrote as […]
Is Chrissy Teigen finally facing repercussions over her vicious Twitter history? As we’ve been reporting, John Legend’s wife has faced serious backlash following resurfaced tweets bullying others. The controversy kicked off when Courtney Stodden came forward with her recollections of public (and, allegedly, private) harassment she endured, that included the Lip Sync Battle host telling […]
“One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.” When the twenty-two-year-old Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932–February 11, 1963) wrote to her mother one bleak January day, both women were wading through a darkness of the soul. Science was only just beginning to hone […]
An ecological symphony between the bears and the deep blue sea. “Words are events, they do things, change things… transform both speaker and hearer… feed energy back and forth and amplify it… feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her superb meditation on the magic of […]
Is 2021 Chrissy Teigen facing serious consequences for things 2013 Chrissy Teigen tweeted?? In case you haven’t seen, the Lip Sync Battle host has been in hot water the past couple days after Courtney Stodden outed her cruel DMs from nearly a decade ago. Related: Lisa Vanderpump Sends Her Restaurant Tab To Kyle Richards Amid Endless Feud! […]
“All of us are knowers, all the time; it is only occasionally and in spite of ourselves that we understand the mystery of given reality.” To understand anything — another person’s experience of reality, another fundamental law of physics — is to restructure our existing knowledge, shifting and broadening our prior frames of reference to […]
How a tiny creature faster than the Space Shuttle balances the impossible equation of extreme fragility and superhuman strength. Frida Kahlo painted a hummingbird into her fiercest self-portrait. Technology historian Steven Johnson drew on hummingbirds as the perfect metaphor for revolutionary innovation. Walt Whitman found great joy and solace in watching a hummingbird “coming and […]
“The need to separate ourselves and connect ourselves to our environment (world) is a primary need of all human beings.” “Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world,” artist Egon Schiele wrote in contemplating why visionaries tend to come from the minority. Artists are so often those whom society paints as other by […]