— Stanford University (@Stanford) October 12, 2020 “They’re trying to reach you but they don’t have a number for you.” “We gave them your cell phone number.” “Yeah I have… wow. Yeah ok.” Holy cow, guys. Show us something. Give the people what they want! Maybe a little midnight jig? Quietly pop a

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not of nature, but of itself. Therein lies our hope and our destiny,” the great marine biologist and author Rachel Carson addressed the next

Author: Sinéad Baker / Source: INSIDER A new study led by a Nobel Prize winner found that the universe is younger and expanding faster than scientists thought. Astronomer Adam Riess used measurements from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to conclude that the universe is expanding 9% faster than

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “It is we who are passing when we say time passes,” the Nobel-winning French philosopher Henri Bergson insisted just before Einstein defeated him in the historic debate that revolutionized our understanding of time. “If our heart were large enough to

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Information will never replace illumination,” Susan Sontag prophesied shortly before her death, before the birth of the social media newsfeed, as she considered the conscience of words and writer’s responsibility to society. A generation earlier,