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A discovery engine for meaningful knowledge, fueled by cross-disciplinary curiosity.
A Brain Pickings project edited by Maria Popova in partnership with Noodle.
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From Henry Reich, the brains behind the wonderful MinutePhysics – who have previously illuminated such scientific curiosities as the arrow of time and why the color pink doesn’t exist – comes MinuteEarth, a new YouTube channel exploring our planet’s story.

( It’s Okay To Be Smart)

The science of icebergs, in an infographic. 

The science of icebergs, in an infographic

While travelling in Antarctica, journalism student Melissa Brennan captured an intersection of a penguin highway.

( MetaFilter)

Sir Harold Evans interviews entrepreneur and former political prisoner Ping Fu, author of the harrowing and heartening memoir Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds, who tells her story of surviving the Chinese cultural revolution, including grueling child labor and gang rape, to become a pioneering Silicon Valley software programmer.