Maria Popova Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
She has called Brain Pickings, her invention and labor of love, a \u201chuman-powered discovery engine for interestingness.\u201d What Maria Popova really delivers, to hundreds of thousands of people each day, is wisdom of the old-fashioned sort, presented in new-fashioned digital ways. She cross-pollinates \u2014 between philosophy and design, physics and poetry, the intellectual and the experiential. We explore her gleanings on what it means to lead a good life \u2014 intellectually, creatively, and spiritually.\nMaria Popova is the creator and presence behind BrainPickings.org, which is included in the Library of Congress\u2019s permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She is the author of Figuring and hosts \u201cThe Universe in Verse\u201d \u2014 an annual celebration of science through poetry \u2014 at the interdisciplinary cultural institute Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.