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Say It (Shlohmo Remix)

Background and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/27/sylvia-plath-reads-spinster/

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Sylvia Plath reads "Spinster"

The redwood trees of the northern California coastline depend on fog as a seasonal water source.

The Fog and the Redwood

Homo sapiens worldwide may have descended from a single migration event out of Africa more than 50,00 years ago.

Ancient Migrations, Summer Sea Ice, and Archaeological Algorithms

A new look at mortality suggests that even as average lifespan increases, there is still a hard cap on how long we can live.

A Limit to Lifespan, Genetic Preference for Flavors, and the Power of Hurricane Matthew

The Midcontinent Rift is an ancient rift system that could have split the country into two parts a billion years ago.

What Caused the Midcontinent Rift?

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/01/31/protest-poem-ella-wheeler-wilcox-amanda-palmer/

Amanda Palmer reads "Protest" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1914)

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/03/working-together-david-whyte/
Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/sets/david-whyte-the-conversational

Photograph by Nicol Ragland

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