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On this day in 1941, Einstein addressed divided humanity on a scratchy radio broadcast to remind us that science is our common language, the language in which nature speaks its immutable truths to us as we war over our fictions. Hear him speak: https://t.co/KFgPET4oGa

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How Ernst Haeckel (who coined the word “ecology”) turned his greatest heartbreak into transcendent art with his otherworldly drawings for the world’s first encyclopedia of jellyfish https://t.co/G0tGERIhRE

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When Einstein met Tagore – a remarkable meeting of minds at the intersection of science and spirituality, East and West: https://t.co/f1fQJztzJz

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At the link, when Einstein met Tagore – a remarkable meeting of minds at the intersection of science and spirituality, East and West: https://t.co/f1fQJztzJz

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How to say "YES" to your life https://t.co/I3YO8LDH6S

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This is such a wonderful perspective: Richard Dawkins on the luckiness of death https://t.co/c3o8nrZNq0

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Why leaves change color and how we become who we are – the science of chlorophyll (which is still a mystery) and the poetics of personhood (which is always a mystery) https://t.co/LDLdPnFWLv

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"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."

James Baldwin's advice on writing: https://t.co/wkeuVcpJvW

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Moonlight and the magic of the unnecessary https://t.co/qCGsXxEUjS

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How not to waste your life https://t.co/4mrnmY5euj

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"Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."

René Magritte on the courage of joy: https://t.co/htpOK4IH8a

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#birddivination of the week. Find it among the original series of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at https://t.co/0oqDep4lBW

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When a young friend was dangerously dancing with the darkness, Galway Kinnell wrote him this poem. It saved his life. https://t.co/amwEm9rFkG

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C.S. Lewis on how to structure the days of a creative life and train the receptive imagination https://t.co/udDmHKfHom

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How to have enough – Wendell Berry on creativity and love https://t.co/vQzQbBDgkS

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Nick Cave on the two pillars of a meaningful life https://t.co/eTlEicYdrS

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Orcas and the price of consciousness – lessons in love and loss from Earth's most successful and creative hunter https://t.co/qC3bcWPCTR

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On this day in 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was only 33. Her abiding wisdom on vulnerability as strength and her advice to writers: https://t.co/CMn6l3zo8X

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Bertrand Russell, who lived nearly a century through two world wars and received the Nobel Prize, on the secret of happiness https://t.co/E0hCKfRAEm

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There Was a Shadow – a lyrical illustrated celebration of the changing light, in the world and in the inner world https://t.co/X0vXbPfS2e