Maria Popova, internet philosopher sensation and creator of the blog, "Brain Pickings," on how to live a meaningful life in 2016. Maria Popova. (Photograph by Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Times) ...

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Popova is making changes to her site. Without revealing how much money she makes from Amazon links, she is going to improve her disclosure: every page now has a footer talking about how “Brain ...

But there’s something Ms. Popova doesn’t mention in her appeals to donors, amid her talk of operating “ad-free.” She might not run banner ads, but she appears to earn income from affiliate links. You ...

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Editor’s Note: Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings, a curation of “cross-disciplinary interestingness” that scours the world of the web and beyond for share-worthy tidbits. Here, she ...

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Money, reach, size and other statistics tell you a lot about your job, but that's not where the real work lies, says blogger Maria Popova. The real effort is in not equating those with your own sense ...

BuzzFeed has removed a post that Maria Popova said took images she had scanned and written about. Popova wrote that she’d “tracked down a surviving copy of Ralph Steadman’s fairly obscure 1995 ...