The Marginalian - Brain Pickings - AIRSLA

The Marginalian - Brain Pickings - AIRSLA

The Marginalian, formally known as, Brain Pickings, maybe found at themarginalian.org, and is a human-powered discovery engine for interestingness, a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why, bringing you things you didn't know you were interested in - until you are. Emeline Mann Sanchez reads her special selections.

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May 2, 2025 11 mins

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Anthem Against Silence: Amanda Palmer Reads Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s Protest Poem, with the music of Jherek Bischoff’s “Closer To Closure”

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"The Marginalian," week of April 25, 2025:

Podcast Description Twenty Ways to Matter: Maria Popova’s tribute to Debbie Millman’s “Design Matters”

Reader Emeline Mann Sanchez

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Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

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"The Marginalian," week of April 11, 2025:

Podcast Description How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

Reader Emeline Mann Sanchez

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Walt Whitman on Owning Your Life

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"The Marginalian," week of March 28, 2025:

Podcast Description: The Half Room of Living and Loving, or, what does having a stroke and being infatuated in love have in common?

Reader: Emeline Mann Sanchez

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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

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Albert Camus on Strength of Character and How to Save Our Sanity in Difficult Times

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How to Cherish Your Human Condition: The Poetic Naturalist Loren Eiseley on the Meaning of Life

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Podcast for "The Marginalian," week of Feb 28, 2025:

Podcast Description Standing at the Gates of Hope: musings of Neruda, Angelou, Ackerman, Walker, Moyers and Mandela sourced by the Reverend Victoria Safford

Reader Emeline Mann Sanchez

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The Distracted Public: Saul Bellow on How Writers and Artists Save Us from the “Moronic Inferno” of Our Time

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A discussion on the life we are dealt with, and poem reading by Roxane Gay of Gwendolyn Brooks’s "To the Young Who Want to Die"

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Podcast for "The Marginalian," week of Jan 31, 2025:

Podcast Description Bertrand Russell on How to Heal an Ailing and Divided World

Reader Emeline Mann Sanchez

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Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Necessity of Hope in a Fragile World

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When Pause and Despair are the Catalyst of Regeneration, as interpreted by ethnologist and cultural anthropologist Robert Ranulph Marett

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Podcast Description Einstein on Kindness, Our Shared Existence, and Life’s Highest Ideals

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On David Whyte’s ruminations on the Promethean power of burnout, from an essay out of his so-called dictionary, Consolations II

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New Year’s Eve: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Spare, Stunning Meditation on the Mystery of Being, with poetry reading by Maria Popova

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