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TED Talks Science and Medicine

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

TED Talks Science and Medicine

TED

Tech Demo, Ted, Technology, Design, Science, Tedtalks, Inspiration, Education, Science & Medicine, Entertainment, Creativity, Ted Talks

4.2 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

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)

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