Willow Defebaugh

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

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

could have a ripple effect so vast, right?

I mean, imagine the pandemic of 2020 unfolding without the internet and no one knowing why this was happening, right?

So one event produces the bicycle, legitimizes meteorology, births Frankenstein and arguably all of a genre that would one day be called science fiction.

All from one eruption.

We'll be back to our episode in a moment.

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And thank you.

How do you approach the research for all of this, by the way?

You also have said that we read other people's lives in some way to learn about our own.

What did you learn about yourself in immersing in these people's lives?

It's so interesting because I resonate with that really deeply, but in a different way also, because for me, that's really how I write the overview and that's how I've been writing it.

But instead of other humans, it's more than human life.

You know, I want to understand how other species have learned to adapt and survive through life.

Right.

And like that, that brings me such comfort.

I appreciate that because my interest or my goal is not to make any other species more human because we have enough humans.

More than enough.

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