Universe In Verse 2024. Humans live in a universe; In 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the resilience of trees and the intelligence of octopuses, popova tells the stories of scientific searching and discovery.
Created and hosted by writer maria popova, the universe in verse is a charitable celebration of science and the wonder of reality, winged with poetry and music. On the eve of the 2024 total solar eclipse, we will gather under waterloo park’s starlit skies to reverence the majesty and mystery of earth’s most sublime experience of the cosmos.