The Ants, the Bees, and the Blind Spots of the Human Mind: How Entomologist Charles Henry Turner Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Evolution of Intelligence and Emotion (www.themarginalian.org)
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...
How the World Holds Together: Patti Smith Reads Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Premonition of Particle Physics (www.themarginalian.org)
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...
Alone Together: An Illustrated Celebration of the Art of Shared Solitude (www.themarginalian.org)
“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…
Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality (www.themarginalian.org)
How to “include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border.”
Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation (www.themarginalian.org)
The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking (www.themarginalian.org)
Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife (www.themarginalian.org)
Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing (www.themarginalian.org)
No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do....
Vintage Illustrations for Tolkien’s The Hobbit from Around the World (www.themarginalian.org)
Fox and Bear: A Tender Modern Fable About Reversing the Anthropocene, Illustrated in Cut-Cardboard Dioramas (www.themarginalian.org)
An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.
On the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality. (www.themarginalian.org)
Related to the concept of phantasiai (impressions)....