#brainpickings — Public Fediverse posts

> The common assumptions that, if the [person] only thinks, one thought is just as good for his mental discipline as another, and that the end of study is the amassing of information, both tend to foster superficial, at the expense of significant, thought...

> The best mental habit involves a balance between paucity and redundancy of suggestions.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/08/18/how-we-think-john-dewey/

#JohnDewey #MariaPopova #TheMarginalian #BrainPickings
#SignificantThought #SuperficialThought

I have more than 70 tabs open on my phone. Surely some of them must be interesting..
Allow me to share some #BrainPickings to ponder on a quiet #NewYearsDay

First up, an interesting study from August this year that documents historical patterns of bicycle sales and ownership worldwide since the 1960s. The authors also quantify the benefits of #Cycling for transport while noting it is unfortunately still marginal in many countries..

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00497-4

@mariapopova
I ❤️ #BrainPickings and missed it and was delighted to find you here! Maria, thank you for your ongoing labor of love. I always enjoy your writing, densely informative yet conversational, and I always learn some gem worth sharing with others. It’s like having a super smart friend introduce me to her even smarter friends. I’m now happily supporting #TheMarginalian like I once subscribed to Brain Pickings. Thanks again for feeding my mind with fact and inspiration.

All is well in the world - the amazing Maria Popova has joined us here. @mariapopova She was one of the first people I followed on the bird site when I joined a very long time ago. She is an amazing writer and collector of ideas and knowledge - her #Brainpickings are a delight to read ..now renamed #Marginalian her website and newsletters are full of fascinating pieces of writing on everything you can imagine from #art #music #science #poetry #nature #literature #letters #love #grief #friendship #inventions and much more... as this place has grown so much and it's very mycelial in nature..thought you might appreciate this recent post of hers about #soundwaves and #mushrooms 🍄😃 https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/13/mushrooms-sound-waves/

@luka I just listened to your "traven" album on Bandcamp and I love it! Funny I stumbled into your profile from searching #BrainPickings just to see if there's a fediverse profile for it. What do you use for making your music may I ask? I want to get started with learning the basics of music making myself, by remixing songs I like.

"Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus — an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice. So often, it is a matter of attending to what Hermann Hesse called, as the world was about to come unworlded by its first global war, “the little joys”; so often, those are the slender threads of which we weave the lifeline that saves us."

#BrainPickings
https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/10/21/14-years-of-brain-pickings/

Nick Cave on Living with Loss and the Central Paradox of Grief as a Portal to Aliveness
“The paradoxical effect of losing a loved one is that their sudden absence can become a feverish comment on that which remains… a luminous super-presence.”
By Maria Popova #brainpickings #nickcave https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/07/27/nick-cave-loss-grief/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brainpickings%2Frss+%28Brain+Pickings%29

"In the final years of his life, the great neurologist Oliver Sacks reflected on the physiological and psychological healing power of nature, observing that in forty years of medical practice, he had found only two types of non-pharmaceutical therapy helpful to his patients: music and gardens."

via #BrainPickings

does anyone know or would recommend a (or more) podcast that would be equivalent or close to articles by Maria Popova from BrainPickings?

#podcast #BrainPickings