Saturday, may 3 2025 10 am

excerpts from “the universe in verse”

“Consider the dazzling odds: Out of the billions upon billions of possible combinations, a planet whose sole satellite is exactly 400 times smaller than its star and exactly 400 times closer, so that each time it passes between the two, it covers the face of the star perfectly, thrusting the planet into midday night, into something surreal and sublime.”

You can find more of Maria Popova’s writing on her web journal, “The Marginalian”