The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry - Maria Popova

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry Author: Maria Popova Narrator: Maria Popova, Lili Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: In this audiobook 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 intelligence of octopuses, Popova tells the stories of scientific searching and discovery. These stories are interwoven with details from the very real and human lives of scientists—many of them women, many underrecognized—and poets inspired by the same questions and the beauty they reveal. Each essay is paired with a poem reflecting its subject by poets ranging from Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, and Tracy K. Smith. Together, they wake us to a "reality aglow with wonder."