“I function only by falling in love: with French and France; with the 15th Century; with microbiology, cosmology, sleep research,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her daybook, capturing the necessary passion that makes writing akin to…
Brain Pickings
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Maria Popova
– Mar 4, 2015, 12:00 AM
“The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams,” Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary before our nocturnal fancies became the subject of science — an inquiry catalyzed by the publication of Freud's seminal 1900 book The…
The New York Times
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Noah Weiland
– Feb 27, 3:12 PM
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson's single-shot Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, beginning the rollout of millions of doses of a third effective vaccine that could reach Americans by…
Nobel laureate John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902–December 20, 1968) might be best-known as the author of East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men, but he was also a prolific letter-writer. Steinbeck: A Life in Letters (public…
Understanding the Cárcamo Museum means taking a second look at the fountains at the end of the Chapultepec Aqueduct near the Chapultepec Metro, at Salto del Agua, or perhaps even more clearly at the end of the Guadalupe Aqueduct in the…
