Traversal

Traversal is an interdisciplinary exploration of what makes life meaningful, weaving together science, art, philosophy, history, love, and mortality. Maria Popova follows the interconnected lives of thinkers and visionaries—including Mary Shelley, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Marie Tharp, and Margaret Mead—to examine how human beings make sense of existence from atoms to stars.