lectures & readings

Transcript, context, and related artwork: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/17/dfw-leadership-debbie-millman/

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David Foster Wallace on leadership, read by Debbie Millman

Recorded at TED 2014. Transcript and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/20/neil-gaiman-ghost-stories/

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Neil Gaiman on why there is no such thing as "children's" books

Seth Godin in conversation with Debbie Millman about courage, anxiety, change, creative integrity,  how to dance with the fear, and more. Background and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/20/seth-godin-debbie-millman-interview/

Seth Godin in conversation with Debbie Millman

Context, transcript, and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/10/joanna-macy-a-year-with-rilke-death-mortality/

Excerpted from On Being with Krista Tippett: http://onbeing.org/program/joanna-macy-a-wild-love-for-the-world/61

Joanna Macy on life

Background, transcript, and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/02/sherwin-nuland-what-everybody-needs/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/sherwin-nuland-the-biology-of

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Sherwin Nuland on what everybody needs

Background, transcribed highlights, and more: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/26/sense-of-nonsense-alan-watts-tao-of-philosophy/

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Alan Watts: Sense of Nonsense

Transcript, context, and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/08/anna-deavere-smith-sarah-lewis-nypl-beauty/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/sarah-lewis-and-anna-deavere-smith-nypl

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Anna Deavere Smith and Sarah Lewis on beauty

Context and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/08/anna-deavere-smith-sarah-lewis-nypl-beauty/

Recorded at The New York Public Library, March 2014. Subscribe to NYPL's free podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-york-public-library-podcast/id804982781?mt=2

Sarah Lewis and Anna Deavere Smith on Inspiring Failures

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/14/chinua-achebe-poetry-reading/

Chinua Achebe reads his poetry

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/01/jfk-amherst-speech/

JFK on poetry and power (Amherst College, 1963)

Physicist and science writer Margaret Wertheim in conversation with On Being host Krista Tippett. Context and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/06/margaret-wertheim-on-being-science-religion

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/margaret-wertheim-the-grandeur-and-limits-of-science?in=onbeing/sets/margaret-wertheim-the-grandeur-and-limits-of-science#t=0:01

Cosmic illustration of Wertheim based on photograph by Noé Montes: http://www.noemontes.com

Physicist Margaret Wertheim on Science and God

Annotations and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/16/neil-gaiman-how-stories-last

Recorded at the Long Now Foundation (http://longnow.org/) on June 9, 2015. 

Follow @https://soundcloud.com/longnow and subscribe to the podcast of their excellent seminars on long-term thinking on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seminars-about-long-term-thinking/id186908455?mt=2

Neil Gaiman on how stories last

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/18/moma-rainbow-flag-gilbert-baker-paola-antonelli

Recording courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art exclusively for Brain Pickings. Interview by Michelle Millar Fisher.

A conversation with rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker

With more context behind our new magazine story, "Ballad of the Sad Climatologists."

Author John H. Richardson and Mark Warren Discuss the Struggle of Climate Scientists

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/15/nikki-giovanni-love-friendship-loneliness/

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"A Poem of Friendship" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova)

Faced with the lack of psychological services in Khayelitsha, registered councillor Banetsi Mphunga, 28 decided to set-up his practice in a minibus taxi. Children’s Radio Foundation young reporter Yolanda Pityoi sat with him in the back in his Kombi to understand where the idea came from. 

RADIO WORKSHOP: Banetsi - Young Khayelitsha Psychologist working from a minibus taxi

At seventy years of age, Glennis Rogerson from Skegness has found a new way to cope with her arthritis, through teaching Tai Chi. Glennis was nominated to be a torchbearer and carried the flame through Skegness on 27th June. 

"A lot of us in the Tai Chi class are disabled; we help each other. We're just a happy family."

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/18/tolstoy-reading-rare-1909-recording/

The fascinating story of A Calendar of Wisdom, with selected highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/15/a-calendar-of-wisdom-tolstoy/

Leo Tolstoy reads from "A Calendar of Wisdom," 1909

Excerpt from Orwell's fantastic 1946 essay outlining his 11 "golden" rules of tea perfection: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/14/george-orwell-a-nice-cup-of-tea/

George Orwell on how to make the perfect cup of tea

An inspiring commencement address delivered to the graduating class at San Jose State University. Transcript and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/debbie-millman-look-both-ways-fail-safe/

lectures & readings

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