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The Marginalian

Marginalia on our search for meaning.

  • By Maria Popova
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly two posts per week
  • First post on

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Mar 2023 21
Apr 2023 14
May 2023 19
Jun 2023 15
Jul 2023 16
Aug 2023 15
Sep 2023 16
Oct 2023 15
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Dec 2023 16
Jan 2024 13
Feb 2024 12
Mar 2024 11
Apr 2024 12
May 2024 14
Jun 2024 12
Jul 2024 12
Aug 2024 14
Sep 2024 15
Oct 2024 0

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Most recent posts

How to Triumph Over the Challenges of the Creative Life: Audubon’s Antidote to Despair
We move through the world as surfaces shimmering with the visibilia of our accomplishments, the undertow of our suffering invisible to passers-by. The selective collective memory we call history contributes to this willful blindness, obscuring …
On , by Maria Popova, 1,541 words
How We Become Ourselves: Erik Erikson’s 8 Stages of Human Development
It never ceases to stagger that some stroke of chance in the early history of the universe set into motion the Rube Goldberg machine of events that turned atoms born in the first stars into …
On , by Maria Popova, 2,541 words
Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau and the Little Owl
“If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity than others.” Among the things I most cherish about science is the way it anneals curiosity. True curiosity is an open wonderment …
On , by Maria Popova, 1,350 words