Maria Popova

Maria is the founder and editor of Brain Pickings; an inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness spanning art, science, design, history, philosophy, psychology, and more. Maria gives a whole new meaning to the verb to read, consuming and digesting thousands of books to feed them back to us in a timely manner.

She has written for Wired UK, The Atlantic, Nieman Journalism Lab, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Design Observer, among others, and is an MIT Fellow.