The Marginalian (2024)

1. The Marginalian

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  • Marginalia on our search for meaning.

2. The Marginalian - Facebook

  • Born on this day in 1818, astronomer Maria Mitchell paved the way for women in science. Her wisdom on how we co-create each other and recreate ourselves through ...

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3. Why the Marginalian aka Brain Pickings, is my most Treasured ...

4. Maria Popova's vivid life in the margins - Brooklyn Magazine

  • Mar 25, 2024 · The writer and editor discusses 17 years of The Marginalian website and her 'compassion for consciousness.'

  • The writer and editor discusses 17 years of The Marginalian website and her 'compassion for consciousness.'

5. 3 Top Life Lessons from Maria Popova of Brain Pickings / The Marginalian

  • My all-time top learnings from Maria Popova of Brain Pickings (now The Marginalian): Choose Presence over Productivity, Combinatorial Creativity, & more.

6. THE MARGINALIAN IN THE GARDEN, with MARIA POPOVA

  • Dec 15, 2022 · A WINTER SOLSTICE OFFERING: THE MARGINALIAN IN THE GARDEN, with MARIA POPOVA · In the garden, we are "kneeling between the scale of seeds and ...

  • In the garden, we are "kneeling between the scale of seeds and the scale of stars...." - Maria PopovaThis week, a pre-Solstice offering for Cultivating Place listeners! Maria Popova is the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings), which, for the past 16 years has been a daily—perhaps even hourly—exploration of wonder in our world as seen through the lenses of how we as humans express ourselves in our own creativity, our intellectual curiosi

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8. The Marginalian | Library of Congress

  • Title. The Marginalian. Summary. Note: Formerly titled Brain Pickings. Created / Published. United States. Genre. website. Form. electronic. Repository.

  • Note: Formerly titled Brain Pickings Website. electronic | Electronic (Form).

9. A Tribute to Maria Popova and the Marginalian - Public Words

  • Nov 2, 2022 · One of the glories of the Internet is Maria Popova's The Marginalian. If you don't know it, click on the link, sign up, and start having ...

  • One of the glories of the Internet is Maria Popova’s The Marginalian.  If you don’t know it, click on the link, sign up, and start having your soul fed every week in unexpected, thought-provoking, and beautiful ways.  Recently, she wrote about the sixteen things she has learned from sixteen years of doing her blog. 

10. Cautionary Tales – Embracing the Escape Fire (with Adam Grant)

  • 7 hours ago · Marginalia · Other Writing · Radio · Resources · Speeches · Undercover Economist · Video · Books · The Truth Detective · How To Make The World ...

  • Cautionary Conversation: Steve Jobs hated his phone so much that he smashed it against a wall. He also referred to mobile carriers as “orifices”. Yet he went on to invent the world̵…

11. On the road again... to Flint Hills Books - KMUW

  • 1 day ago · Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia and co-host with Suzanne Perez of ...

  • In this episode, Beth & Suzanne chat about the New York Times 100 Books of the 21st Century (so far), they talk about what they've been reading, and more. They also take a trip to Council Grove, Kansas, to visit with Jennifer Kassebaum, owner of Flint Hills Books, about August releases.

The Marginalian (2024)

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Who said "I have something you will never have enough"? ›

The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut informed his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responded – “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough.”

Who is the author of the Marginalian? ›

My name is Maria Popova and The Marginalian is a record of my reading and reckoning with our search for meaning: sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder.

What is Kurt Vonnegut's most famous quote? ›

1. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” From Vonnegut's third novel 'Mother Night', it's a beautiful and quick summation of an appreciation of the stark importance as well as the flimsiness of human identity.

Who knows that enough is enough will always have enough explain? ›

This quote means having contentment and being satisfied with what you have will always keep you happy and satisfied. More often than not, people seek unneceessary additional pleasures while already enjoying many luxuries and being well-to-do.

What is the marginalien? ›

The Marginalian has a free Sunday digest of the week's most mind-broadening and heart-lifting reflections spanning art, science, poetry, philosophy, and other tendrils of our search for truth, beauty, meaning, and creative vitality.

What did The Marginalian used to be called? ›

The Marginalian was born as a plain-text newsletter to seven friends on October 23, 2006, under the outgrown name Brain Pickings.

What was Brain Pickings renamed? ›

The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings)'s posts.

Who said the quote to get something you never had you have to do something you never did? ›

“If you want something you never had, you have to do something you've never done.” – Thomas Jefferson • • • #quote #thomasjefferson #quaotable #mondaymotivation #monday #mondaymantra #brave #courage.

Which author said I have enough? ›

The centerpiece is Vonnegut's Joe Heller poem, one of the last things he published before he died. His message that reminding ourselves how much we have (rather than how much we want), that so many of us “have enough,” is timeless and especially fitting for the day.

Who said you can never get enough of what you don t really want? ›

Wayne Dyer Quotes

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

When you concentrate on what you don't have you will never have enough? ›

Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

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