Starlings' Murmurations: Nature's Mesmerizing Watercolor Dance
Starlings and the magic of murmurations – a magical watercolor serenade to one of Earth's greatest wonders https://t.co/qqcfc5Lvnb
Kids' Dictionary Drops Nature Words, Sparks Backlash
When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: https://t.co/Is4zFAQqc6
Explore Your Seven Identity Layers with Amelie Rorty
How are you tending to each of your 7 layers of identity? Philosopher Amelie Rorty on what makes a person, in literature and life: https://t.co/4h169UOgbR
Le Guin: Menopause Signals Rebirth, Elders Empower Society
Ursula K. Le Guin on change, menopause as rebirth, and the civilizational value of elders https://t.co/F7JRCwG833
Finding Light Again: Bloom’s Journey Through Depression
Bloom – a touching animated short film about depression and what it takes to recover the light of being https://t.co/FgD7NGou4t
George Saunders: 3 Antidotes to Suffering Through Kindness
How to be an instrument of kindness in a harsh world – George Saunders on unthinking the mind, unstorying the self, and the 3 antidotes to your suffering https://t.co/DUCgC3JHbu
Poetic Meditations on Time, Love, and Wonder
This week oasis of small sanities, in one place – Pablo Neruda on how to hold time; the figments of love and the hallucinations of reason; the aurora borealis and the polar expedition saved by wonder: https://t.co/lvthiGXFPS https://t.co/SGPhzPIJb2
Reality vs Perception: From Zeno to Borges
Superb read on the endless tug-of-war between human nature and the nature of reality, from Zeno's paradox to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to Borges's mirror https://t.co/jNaaCY1w60
Love Transforms Perception, Revealing a Golden Light
Letting in the golden light – Oliver Sacks on how love changes what we see https://t.co/VRmelozj2f
From Dropout to Nobel: Lessing's Timeless Reading Wisdom
Doris Lessing was 14 when she dropped out of school and 88 when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her abiding wisdom on how to read a book and how to read the world https://t.co/LlU7CVEqUQ
24 Books That Shaped Gabriel García Márquez’s Visionary Mind
“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.” Gabriel García Márquez would have been 99 today. His formative reading list of 24 books that shaped his visionary mind: https://t.co/V3XOJsbWvG
Escape Algorithmic Tyranny with Marginalian’s Human‑Centred Newsletter
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: https://t.co/8ApDA5YPF6
Kundera Explores Life’s Ambivalence and Love’s Uncertainty
How do we know what we want – Milan Kundera on the central ambivalences of life and love https://t.co/YiTk12J73j
Weasel Wisdom: Annie Dillard's Guide to Living
What a weasel knows that we forget – Annie Dillard on how to live https://t.co/bZ2czI9bc3