Willow Defebaugh

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874 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Willow Defebaugh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh · Maria Popova on Turning Matter Into Meaning · 12 May 2026 podcast

We owe birds for dreaming.

Well, also, mine was about life and death.

So also, I remember we were on this like beautiful grass, grassy meadow field.

And I remember after reading it out loud, I passed by you and you were like, very Mary Shelley.

Wow.

I have to find it.

That's what science does.

And you can subscribe to it with a link in the show notes.

It's been such a wondrous process for finding linguistic inspiration everywhere.

I mean, it's not just scientific articles.

Now when I read anything, I feel like my mind is trying to arrange every word.

Yeah, I went through that phase.

I wanted to circle back to traversal.

And I think probably anyone who's listening can get a sense by now that you have a remarkable ability for creating an atlas from historical events of connecting the dots between even, I think, seemingly disparate moments in history.

And as an example of this,

I'd love for you to talk about the eruption of a volcano in 1815 that sent the world into chaos.

What are some of the ripples of just that one rupture?

As all disaffected youths do.

No one understood the source of this, really.

It was impossible to conceive at that time that something that happened in Indonesia in one part of the world...

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