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Just a lovely pairing of poetic prose + lyrical photos to ease into the day. Take a few minutes for yourself and reflect with this contemplative piece.

Gates shares with us a scientist's rich, connected way of looking at the universe, and we've captured him in Twitter form.

A rap from an employee who works with the particle accelerator that actually does a really good job of breaking down the science.

Previous "On Being" guest, Adele Diamond, tells a story about meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India at a Mind and Life Institute dialogue. We highlight some of the passages Adele Diamond presented to the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala — including texts from Rabbi Heschel, Bashevis Singer, Rachel Naomi Remen, and Henri Nouwen.

Comments from two cosmologists and NASA's images from a refurbished Hubble.

Watch this fabulous talk on Hubble and Rembrandt, Casablanca in psychological terms, how stars actually "evolve," and why Malala Yousafzai's bravery is "the best example of the power of curiosity."

13.7 billion years scaled into one year helps makes sense of the universe's massive scale in this video + chart.

Video of a Seed salon with Janna Levin and fiction writer Jonathon Lethem.

Is math a basic need we intuit like hunger, thirst, and love?

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