The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry Memoir_Gift_Guide ACCESSIBLE

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yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy

In their struggles to survive and get along

Friends and family come and eat—

The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry Memoir_Gift_Guide ACCESSIBLEIn this book of illustrated essays, Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry. "Poetry and science," as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the resilience of trees and the