Humanity's search for cosmic truth and poetic beauty | Maria Popova

TED Talks Science and Medicine · Maria Popova

May 23, 20227m 15s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (download.ted.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Original episode page

Show Notes

Linking together the histories of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Edwin Hubble and Tracy K. Smith, poet and thinker Maria Popova crafts an astonishing story of how humanity came to see the edge of the observable universe. (Followed by an animated excerpt of "My God, It's Full of Stars," by Tracy K. Smith)

Topics

TED

← All episodes of TED Talks Science and Medicine