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In anticipation of Why We Die, tomorrow's live event Pioneer Works, we launch Death Week on Broadcast, a kaleidoscopic descent into what awaits us six feet under. Join us from wherever you are. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/seri…

Why We Die, live event with Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan Pioneer Works (and yours truly). Free with RSVP, though pretty full...

Death Week is upon us, a five-day descent into what awaits us six feet under. In honor of Venki Ramakrishnan’s landmark event at Pioneer Works tonight, Broadcast is taking a turn towards the existential. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/seri…

“The death of an animal or a human is really the death of the vessel.” Ahead of his conversation with Janna Levin tonight, Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan weighs in on the new science of dying. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/why-…

Harry Weil of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery talks to artist Eiko Otake (Eiko Otake) about confronting death: “When I was younger I had other obligations, from which I am now free. I don’t know how many more years I have, so nothing is holding me back.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/life…

“You’re watching a young woman smile softly as she tells you her father died with his favorite socks on.” Logan Davis reports on death these days—and why young people are drawn, in growing numbers, to jobs that confront life’s end. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/loga…

Eileen Myles (Eileen Myles) shares the death poems they like best—featuring The Poet is Here, Sallie Fullerton, and Laura Henrikson. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/eile…

Do you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? Do you suddenly seem to understand everything? Rayan El Amine (Rayan El Amine) on psychedelics, Near-Death Experiences, and the living that follows. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/raya…

“My theory: just as the Janeite has lived a better life, they will die a better death—perhaps not free from existential distress but more equipped to meet it.” A professor ponders how Jane Austen prepares us for death. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/sens…

John C. Reilly is Mister Romantic 💌 The actor steps into his acclaimed new musical persona, full of vaudevillian influence and romantic standards, live at Pioneer Works on June 15 - tickets are on sale tomorrow at 12pm EST! eventbrite.com/e/john-c-reill…

Death is alive and well in Rumi’s poetry. For PW Broadcast, Haleh Liza Gafori—translator for NYRB Classics and beyond—shares lines from his blissful, anxiety-free vision of the afterlife. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/rumi…

“They convert sunlight into honey. Is this not sacred enough?” Will Hunt writes on bees—the one insect that humans, since ancient times, have entrusted with death. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/will…

Here's my conversation with astrophysicist Janna Levin all about black holes, information paradox, general relativity, quantum mechanics, gravitational waves, wormholes, alien civilization, and more. It's here on X in full, and is up everywhere else too (see comment).

We’ve heard the warnings: children will drain your time, your money, and your focus. But what might a writer gain from motherhood? For PW Broadcast, Kate Shannon Jenkins (Kate Shannon Jenkins) writes towards a maternal gaze. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/mate…

“So I had the baby, even as I lived in terror that she might prove the adorable Trojan horse by which failure and unhappiness and doom would be ushered into my life.” Kate Shannon Jenkins considers the creative perils and promises of motherhood. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/mate…

Introducing SCALE, a short film for your brain about your brain. We’re all just hallucinating reality—but where does consciousness come from? Janna Levin measures the mind's mysteries to learn more. youtube.com/watch?v=xPwxpG…

The brain is the only organ that can consider itself, and yet it runs on less power than a refrigerator light bulb. PW is proud to present SCALE—a short film from Janna Levin and Tom McNamara that considers the true measure of our minds. youtube.com/watch?v=xPwxpG…

Running on less power than a refrigerator light bulb...the human brain. A brief hallucination for your brain about the brain. Kudos to producer Michael Jones, filmmaker Tom McNamara and artist Ramin Rahni youtube.com/watch?v=xPwxpG… Pioneer Works

Everything that flows from forests—clean air, biodiversity, human health, history—is unraveling. In the words of marguerite holloway, we need to take to the trees. On Broadcast, the writer shares a peek into her new book, out now from W. W. Norton & Company. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/take…

Tree rings reveal that the new character of wildfires—their intensity, their frequency—has no precedent in the last 2,000 years. On Broadcast, marguerite holloway shares a glimpse into TAKE TO THE TREES—out now from W. W. Norton & Company. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/take…