Notices by Maria Popova (mariapopova@indieweb.social), page 3

Carl Sagan explains how stars are born, live, die, and give us life https://t.co/THfnlelcTE

How to eat the sun – a blind hero of the French resistance on accessing the light within and touching the oneness of the world, extraordinary read https://t.co/W5ijrBS7c9

17 life-learnings from 17 years of The Marginalian https://t.co/8SYLnNroPY https://t.co/e3R3UnRU3D

"Love is a bet, a wild one, placed on freedom. Not my own; the freedom of the Other... A knot made of two intertwined freedoms."

Octavio Paz on love https://t.co/aF8UmF1yT8

The Experience Machine – fascinating read on the power of expectation and how the mind renders reality https://t.co/4lVPUOAsm4

Ode to a Flower – Nobel laureate Richard Feynman's famous meditation on knowledge and mystery, animated https://t.co/Xtmrj2jdtJ

The Moon and the Yew Tree – Patti Smith reads Sylvia Plath's haunting portrait of depression https://t.co/6DD0qe7hLr

"Only parts of us will ever
touch only parts of others"

Marilyn Monroe's little-known unpublished poems – a glimpse of the complex private person behind the public persona: https://t.co/25Zu28knpd

On this day in 1964, Sartre became the first person to decline the Nobel Prize https://t.co/2YgDihukAq

Marcus Aurelius, who died on this day in the year 180, on how to live through difficult times https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/06/19/marcus-aurelius-universe/

The wisdom of moss – lovely read https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/13/gathering-moss-robin-wall-kimmerer/

Nietzsche on walking and creativity https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/12/12/nietzsche-walking/

Mary Shelley died on this day in 1851, leaving us "Frankenstein" and her immortal wisdom on what makes life worth living https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/04/16/mary-shelley-the-last-man/

The remarkable story of the seamstress turned scientist who solved the ancient mystery of the argonaut, pioneered the aquarium, and laid the groundwork for the study of octopus intelligence https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/26/jeanne-villepreux-power-argonaut/

“A writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.”

60 years ago today, John Steinbeck delivered his vibrantly humanistic @NobelPrize acceptance speech https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/04/29/john-steinbeck-nobel-speech/

“There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.”

Ursula K. Le Guin on the art of growing older and what beauty really means beneath the veneer https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/21/ursula-le-guin-dogs-cats-dancers-beauty/