Nerdette: Brain Pickings Creator Maria Popova
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Maria Popova, the creator of the website Brain Pickings, explains how her job is to reflect on everything from literature and physics to astronomy and art. She tells Nerdette hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen about her rigorous daily diet of reading, writing, tweeting, and reflecting, as well as her newest guilty pleasure: Playing bridge.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org |
| 0:12.6 | slash events. |
| 0:13.6 | A cornucopia of interestingness. |
| 0:17.2 | It's not fall. |
| 0:18.3 | Is it still okay to? |
| 0:19.5 | Oh, you can use cornucopia all year round. |
| 0:21.8 | I want that somewhere in the world. |
| 0:27.0 | From W.Beezy Chicago, this is Nurdette. I'm Tricia Bobita. And I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:32.0 | Today we're talking to writer, blogger, |
| 0:34.4 | philosopher, and self-described interestingness, hunter-gatherer Maria Popova. |
| 0:39.7 | Maria is best known for her blog Brain Pickings, which is a series of posts dedicated to in her own words |
| 0:46.7 | what matters most in the world. From science to art and anthropology to design, |
| 0:51.6 | brain Pickings is a one-stop shop for basically |
| 0:54.4 | everything you would ever want to learn or think about. |
| 0:57.6 | Brain Pickings started as a weekly email that Maria sent to just a few friends |
| 1:01.8 | and it's now read by hundreds of |
| 1:03.8 | thousands of people around the world. A few years ago it was included in the |
| 1:07.4 | Library of Congress permanent web archive which means that it's internet forever |
| 1:11.6 | I guess. |
| 1:13.0 | Maria, welcome to Nurdette. |
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