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Reader. Writer. Bicycle-dependent. Author of "Figuring."

Brooklyn, NY
Joined October 2007

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    Lift your heart every Sunday morning with the free Brain Pickings weekly newsletter:

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  2. “I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, sometimes a very long time, before I set them down.” Beethoven on incubation and creativity:

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  3. “Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.” Ray Bradbury, born 99 years ago today, on storytelling and human nature, in a lovely forgotten 1963 documentary:

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  4. Lest we forget, photography has only been around for exactly 180 years this year, which is exactly half a blink in the history of consciousness.

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  5. I caught myself debating for a moment whether this is too unremarkable a rainbow for another’s eye, then was instantly ashamed at the notion of an unremarkable rainbow. Resist the malady of Instagrammic jadedness, comrades!

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  6. A bittersweet time machine: 50 years ago today, The Beatles' final photo shoot

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  7. “It’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality.” On Ray Bradbury's birthday, his prescient forgotten conversation with Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke about Mars and the human future in space

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  8. On Ray Bradbury's birthday, on the legacy of "Fahrenheit 451," the power of cautionary questions, and how storytelling enlarges our humanity

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  9. How to find your artistic voice – on empathy, creativity, and the courage to know yourself

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  10. How nature works, in stunning psychedelic illustrations of scientific processes and phenomena from a 19th-century French physics textbook

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  11. You lucky Old World dogs, is coming your way. Give your autumn a gust of joy and genius.

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  12. “Stuff your eyes with wonder… live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” Remembering Ray Bradbury, born 99 years ago today, with Steadman's glorious illustrations for F 451

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  13. “We need another and a wiser… more mystical concept of animals… In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.”

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  14. Ray Bradbury would have been 99 today. reads “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury” – his lovely poem-present for his hero's 91st and final birthday

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  16. "You can only go with loves in this life." Ray Bradbury, born 99 years ago today, on emotion and creativity:

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  17. "Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days." Frida Kahlo married Diego Rivera 90 years ago today. Her breathtaking handwritten love letters:

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  18. “Does what goes on inside show on the outside? Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney.” How Van Gogh found his purpose:

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  19. DC folk: Go see my brilliant friend Lia Halloran's exhibition, poetically titled "The Same Sky Touches Us All"—a cyanotype celebration of women's history in astronomy. (I've got an essay in the catalog, as do and )

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  20. "He is eternally curious and, at the same time, an eternal conversationalist. He can paint for hours and days without resting, talking while he works... His words make one tremendously uncomfortable because they are live and true."

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  21. Winnie-the-Pooh was born 98 years ago today. Here is the improbable and touching true story of the real-life baby bear who inspired Milne's character

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