Month: October 2019

“On October 23, 2006,Brain Pickingswas born as a plain-text email to seven friends. It was then, and continues to be, a labor of love and ledger of curiosity, although the mind and heart from which it sprang have changed –have grown, I hope — tremendously. At the end of the …

“Five years ago, two young women decided they were going to do something about the plastic problem on their island of Bali. And Bye Bye Plastic Bags was born. How young? So young one of them couldn’t make it to our midweek interview. “She’s at school,” explained 18-year-old Melati Wijsen, …

Paula Norris Mestayer, a practicing psychotherapist for 40 years and founder of Springfield Wellness Center, in Springfield, Louisiana, has specialized in the treatment of addiction and âother brain disordersâ since 2000. When her own teenage daughter got into trouble with drugs and Norris Mestayer accompanied her to a clinic in …

When many of us think of India, we think of a land teeming with human life. However, the vast continent also is home to a multitude of plant and animal lives all working in harmony to sustain the complex ecosystem. Dive into this visually beautiful essay to discover some of …

Drop your “cognitive gatekeeper” and travel along with best selling author Charles Foster as he paints a lyrical picture of whale communication. Follow the riff around a drone, like Byzantine chanters into the magical, mystical world of whales. Intuit the wonder of the world beyond the language of our minds.