MariaPopovaAlephTalks103024

Maria Popova launched The Marginalian in 2006; she curates intellectually challenging materials in art, philosophy, science, music, poetry, literature et al, and presents it on her website every week. The linkages between ideas and authors are incredible. This is a sampling of how she deals with two people, Hannah Arendt, a philosopher, and Alan Lightman, a poetic physicist who is engaged in the mystery of science.