Bananas of the West: Growing Up in Bulgaria With Steve Jobs, Apple
Before the fall of the communist regime, we waited in line for hours to buy bananas -- lines I didn't see again until the iPhone was released… More »
Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings. She writes for Wired UK and GOOD, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.
Before the fall of the communist regime, we waited in line for hours to buy bananas -- lines I didn't see again until the iPhone was released… More »
The evolutionary biologist and celebrated atheist offers up a powerful antidote to the creationism mythology for younger readers… More »
This month marks the reprint of 'I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History,' an anthology of Gould's essays… More »
Scientists, artists, presidents -- they're all here, presented as antique hipsters, in New Yorker cartoonist Kate Beaton's collection of comics… More »
Bob Willoughby's photographs from the 1950s and early '60s of the legendary actress have been collected in a lavish release by Taschen… More »
From marmalade flapjacks to toad-in-the-hole, this book covers a wide variety of recipes, and a partner site allows you to submit your own… More »
One part of the legendary design duo, Charles and Ray Eames, sat down in 1972 with a representative of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris for this still-relevant interview… More »
Twenty-five years ago, beloved comic artist and editor Art Spiegelman published Maus, his Pulitzer-winning classic about the Holocaust… More »
Green-light mess-making, astonish yourself in 101 different ways, unleash your inner graffiti artist, and flowchart your way to happiness… More »
D.W. Kellogg's design, which was created around 1833, depicts Woman as a sentimental, selfish, and superficial being driven by vanity… More »
Swedish design duo Hjarta Smarta started Hall of Femmes as an online project after observing that weren't enough female design role models… More »
Follow the Jeopardy! star as he gets shamed by a teenager at the National Geographic Bee and lost in the Library of Congress Map Division… More »
A new translation of the Grimm tales includes artwork from some of the most celebrated illustrators working between 1820 and 1950… More »
Kleon is known for his Newspaper Blackout project, in which he makes art out of articles by redacting with little more than a black Sharpie… More »
This excerpt from 'Lessons for the Living' shows Kathleen, both a hospice volunteer and hospice patient, as she prepares for her own death… More »
How eBay helped to uncover a buried literary treasure, or what a Massachusetts dentist and Seussologist has to do with vintage magazines… More »
Part of what makes the children's books on this list so great is their ability to whisk the young reader into an alternate reality full of possibility… More »
That idea, central to the Lucretian worldview, has, in time, found its way to everything from design to literature to political strategy… More »
Animators Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco, and Torsten Strer explore what makes one of our most iconic filmmakers's projects so stunning… More »
An incredible handmade book based on Indian mythology, I Like Cats features a different cat on every rich, textured, screen-printed page… More »
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