Kristin Posehn

Sep 9, 2024 | masoncurrey.substack.com | Mason Currey |Anna Brones |Kristin Posehn

Dear readers! Last time I wrote to you all, in July, I was wrapping up an eight-week, worm-themed summer course that I had concocted as an elaborate piece of self-help: I would break down, step by step, the habits that I needed to adopt in order to finally finish my next book. So did it help? I’ll tell you at the end of this email.

Apr 30, 2024 | botharetrue.substack.com | Kristin Posehn

BATheads far and wide, gather round: we’ve got a guest post from one of the most interesting humans I’ve ever met, . ‘A study of the heart’ is about grandpas and hearts and chaos and everything else too. I love it and I think you will too. Kristin writes which I’d describe as “the world is full of magic and chaos and I’ve got the science to prove it.”Here’s how she describes it.

May 18, 2023 | conjunctions.com | Kristin Posehn

Stick ChartMarshall Islands, twentieth century, wood, snail shell, plant fiber cordCourtesy of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Imagine a slanting, double chain of islands set in the hinterlands of the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia, like a dusting of crumbs on the turquoise deep.

Jan 31, 2023 | kristinposehn.substack.com | Kristin Posehn

One of my favorite dreamers in history, Srinavasa Ramanujan, was born December 22, 1887, in the small, Southern city of Erode, India. His father was a petty clerk in a cloth merchant’s shop, his mother devoutly religious. From an early age, Ramanujan was drawn to mathematics. He was that kid and then some, showing such an unusual aptitude for math that in grade school his teachers turned to him to ask if what they were doing was correct.