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In Traversal, Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness: what makes a body a person? Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with these questions - our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems - through the intertwined lives, loves and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history, people born into the margins of their time and place who lived to write the future: Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Fanny Wright.

Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists - mostly women, mostly queer - whose public contribution has risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience and appreciate the universe.

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...

In the intelligence, an asset is the unseen messenger of valuable and secret information. Hosted by Maria Popova, brand equity developer and co-founder of Equity Media, "I, Asset" is a series of conversations shedding light on the secrets to successful brand monetization. In each episode, Maria Popova engages in captivating conversations with entrepreneurs, executives, and creative professionals who have achieved mastery in turning their skills into valuable assets. Get ready to be inspired, and equipped with the knowledge to maximize your worth and break free from commoditization forever.