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The son of a nurse and a church janitor, entomologist Charles Henry Turner (February 3, 1867–February 14, 1923) died with a personal library of a thousand books, having published more than fifty scientific papers, having named his youngest son Darwin, and having revolutionized our understanding of the most abundant non-human...

Under the shimmering starscape of this new universe of knowledge, she found herself having “no interest in the all-important subject” of “becom[ing] a Christian.” Soon, she would write in her ravishing love letters to Susan Gilbert: “Sermons on unbelief ever did attract me.” The school’s founder and first...

“One can never be alone enough to write,” Susan Sontag lamented in her diary. “Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!” the founding father of neuroscience e…

How to “include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border.”

No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do....

An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.

Related to the concept of phantasiai (impressions)....