Maria Popova

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931 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 22 Jun

Maria Popova’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Air currents and turbulences and layers change.

Unfortunately, we humans need a very dramatic, you know, embodied evidence of whatever we're questioning until we believe it.

Oh, God.

Well, it was a lot.

That's an extremely research-heavy book.

That's why it took seven years.

But I follow tendrils that excite me.

This is my attempt to answer some of the biggest questions I live with, which are immense and impossible to actually answer.

There's so many different doorways to them.

You know, what makes a body a person?

What makes a planet a world?

What is life?

What is death?

Why are we here?

I mean, enormous, absurd questions to begin to tackle.

But I very intuitively follow the tendrils that lead me to the interesting doorways.

And I come in at those angles that are interesting to me.

You know, I could have approached these questions with...

seven other people's lives and 25 other events in the history of ecology and politics and all of that.

A million, million other ways, but I think we have the minds we have and the preferences we have, and it just lends to my interests.

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