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Now might seem like an especially strange time for celebrities to engage in any kind of self-congratulatory exercise, but Apple TV+'s upcoming docuseries, Dear..., aims to show us how some public-facing individuals have made very legitimate contributions to the world just by setting examples with

As states across the U.S. reopen and we prepare to enter the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic, you might be inclined to venture out into nature for a little peace and quiet and fresh air. But if you can't make it to the woods or your nearby parks, or if you'd prefer to shelter in place a ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aETNYyrqNYE Earth Day (April 22) is often overlooked by the masses, but it is more important than ever to honor its mission to celebrate our planet and support environmental protections, and it is not just because 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Our world, and the worlds around and within it, is aflame with shades of brilliance we cannot fathom,” naturalist Sy Montgomery wrote in her lyrical reflection on what thirteen animals taught her about how to be a good creature. And yet, for

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Books feed and cure and chortle and collide,” Gwendolyn Brooks wrote in her 1969 ode to why we read. For Kafka, a book was “the axe for the frozen sea inside us”; for Galileo, nothing less than a source of superhuman powers. “Without the writing of