Shared today for the interesting insights on birds' brains, but mostly for the Superb Owl illustration.
What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep | The Marginalian
"Still, avian brains are also profoundly other, capable of feats unimaginable to us, especially during sleep..."
One very, very beautiful edition of the Marginalian. Thank you.
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JOY
by Lisel Mueller, read by Nick Cave
“Don’t cry, it’s only music,”
someone’s voice is saying.
“No one you love is dying.”
Recorded for The #Marginalian. Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/0...
Words: #LiselMueller
Voice: #NickCave
Art: Dorothy Lathrop
Music: Claude #Debussy
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Spell Against Indifference: A Poem
Came across this poem from one of my favorite people , Maria Popover, this Sunday with a glimmer of hope the rays of the sun ☀️ will appear.
Be sure to listen to the spoken version, accessible with the link below, and have a great day, even if the sun doesn’t appear ❤️
"The rain falls and falls
cool, bottomless, and prehistoric
falls like night —
not an ablution
not a baptism
just a small reason
to remember
all we know of Heaven…”
Click the ‘alt' for the full poem (or the link.)
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #mariapopova #Marginalian
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/08/20/spell-against-indifference/
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I #love the excerpts in this post.
Several times a year #Marginalian content stops me in my tracks.
DYK the term 'scientist' was coined in 1834, specifically, to describe a woman of #Science b/c referring to her as a 'man of science' seemed at odds?
"Whewell coined 'scientist' not just as a gender-neutral term bt to celebrate 'the peculiar illumination of the #female mind: ability to synthesize separate fields into a single discipline...like an 'artist.'
Imagine if synthesizing minds had dominated the course of #history over the last 2k yrs?
#Marginalian #women
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Karen E. Lund 💙💛
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Maarten Pelgrim
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