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Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife – the Marginalian Inspiration
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Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife – the Marginalian

Richard Feynman spent his life insisting that the universe yielded only to reason - that mystery was simply physics not yet understood - and yet, 488 days after his wife Arline died of tuberculosis at twenty-seven, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist sat down and wrote her a...

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Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech – the Marginalian
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The Souls of Animals – the Marginalian
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How Candle Making Is Creating a Brighter Future for Refugees
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Second Chances Farm Is Where Retired Racehorses and Incarcerated Men Find Healing
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The Tiny Cell That Broke a Big Rule of Biology | Grist Environment
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The Tiny Cell That Broke a Big Rule of Biology | Grist

For decades, Jon Zehr chased a bacterium he could detect only by its genetic fingerprint - "a footprint without an...

The Power of a Thin Skin – the Marginalian Arts
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The Power of a Thin Skin – the Marginalian

Maria Popova's exploration of Jenn Shapland's essay collection *Thin Skin* begins with a medical diagnosis - a...

Nature and Creativity: the Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Resets the Brain – the Marginalian Environment
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Nature and Creativity: the Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Resets the Brain – the Marginalian

From Thoreau praying in the woods to astronauts staggered by the overview effect, humans have long sensed what...

20 Ways of Surfacing From the Blues: Sydney Smith’s 200-year-old Strategies for Raising Low Spirits in a Letter of Advice... Inspiration
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20 Ways of Surfacing From the Blues: Sydney Smith’s 200-year-old Strategies for Raising Low Spirits in a Letter of Advice...

In 1820, the Anglican clergyman and writer Sydney Smith sat down to write a letter of practical counsel to a...

Kerala Engineer Builds Robotic Exoskeleton to Help Paralysis Patients Walk Again Everyday Heroes
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Kerala Engineer Builds Robotic Exoskeleton to Help Paralysis Patients Walk Again

When Robin Kanattu Thomas watched his grandfather - clinically healthy enough to walk after surgery, but without...

Second Chances Farm Is Where Retired Racehorses and Incarcerated Men Find Healing Inspiration
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Second Chances Farm Is Where Retired Racehorses and Incarcerated Men Find Healing

At a small farm in Sykesville, Maryland, retired racehorses and incarcerated men are quietly remaking each other -...