19 Years Of Brain Pickings / The Marginalian
Jane Goodall: On Art And Science
“It is lovely to be in an artistic atmosphere again. I realize now, more than ever before, that I can never live wholly without it. It feels so heavenly to be able to just sit in front of the fire & talk for hours — of cabbages & kings — poetry, literature, art, music, philosophy, […]
On Carl Linnaeus And His Flower Clock
The Woman Who Ran For President In 1870
“Papers declared her candidacy “a brazen imposture, to be extinguished by laughter rather than by law.” People — working-class people, people of color, people relegated to the margins of their time and place — clamored to hear her speak, rose up in standing ovation by the thousands, cried and cheered.”